Japan had lived in relative isolation from the outside world. American gunboat diplomacy, instigated by Commodore Perry in 1853, opened up Japan for trade with the West. The Japanese did not wish to ...

is expected to boost Meiji Yasuda's insurance premium income by around ¥500 billion and raise its overseas insurance business ratio from 15% to 26%. The Japanese firm's total investment in the ...

Legal & General Group agreed to sell its U.S. protection entity, which includes its local pension risk transfer business, to Japanese life insurer Meiji Yasuda in a $2.3 billion deal. L&G will ...

The 32-year-old artist, who has spent the past three years in Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province, China's "porcelain capital", ...

Move over chocolates. Nothing says “I love you” more than a heart full of fish paste.