China's global ambitions are no longer something that can be ignored.

In 1971, the inaugural European Management Symposium was held in Davos, a ski resort in the Swiss Alps, the event a precursor to what would later become the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos. Borge Brende | YOSHIAKI MIURA PHOTO"I felt the future should ...

The 46th Tokyo Motor Show, slated to kick off on Oct. 24 at Tokyo Big Sight and other areas in Tokyo's Odaiba district, is set to showcase the latest automotive trends but will also depart from previous editions of the motor show. This year's motor ...

Emperor Naruhito will formally declare his ascension as Japan's 126th monarch in front of about 2,000 leaders and representatives from over 170 countries and regions at the Imperial Palace on Tuesday. The Sokuirei Seiden no Gi (enthronement ceremony) will represent the old tradition that has ...

For Haruno Yoshida, co-chair of the Women 20 (W20) committee, a G20 engagement group, female empowerment is something like the construction behind Nara Prefecture's famed ancient wooden Horyuji Temple. Using a combination of naturally shaped, organic and nonuniform materials — some having become sun-warped and ...

Slovenia has similar challenges to Japan in terms of huge government debts and an aging population, and both countries can learn from each other, Slovenian Finance Minister Andrej Bertoncelj said this week in Tokyo. In an interview with The Japan Times on Wednesday, Bertoncelj, who ...

Touching on the Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi in February, Hagerty argued it was “not a failure, as some have portrayed it.”

The American envoy said Trump has great confidence in the prime minister and that the U.S. hopes he will have “productive engagements that lead to progress.”

With leaders from around the world as her audience, a young Japanese woman from Kamikatsu, Tokushima Prefecture, spoke about her small town's "zero waste" initiatives, urging the globally influential audience to act to change society. "Our population is only 1,500, and more than half is ...

When world political and business leaders gather these days, trade, globalization and Brexit dominate the discussions, and the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum held last week was no exception. But with many female executives present at the meeting at a ski resort nestled ...