The government plans to start discussions surrounding the deployment of nuclear-powered submarines to the Self-Defense Forces ...

Japan’s Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Henri B. Kagan, the Nobel Committee for Chemistry announced in ...

Public anxiety is mounting in the wake of a series of data leaks at public organizations and companies. This is an urgent issue, and the government must act quickly to enhance its response ...

The Fair Trade Commission raided four major brewers Wednesday for allegedly forming an illegal cartel to adjust shipment prices for beer and other products, sources familiar with the matter said.

The Okinawa prefectural assembly opened its first session on Tuesday since Gov. Genta Koja — endorsed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and others — took office in September.

Visitors to the Nagai Botanical Garden in Higashi-Sumiyoshi Ward, Osaka, enjoy taking pictures of the fantastic sea of fluffy, hairlike, pale-pink flowers on the muhlenbergia capillaris plants, which ...

Lt. Gen. Benjamin Watson, commander of III Marine Expeditionary Force and Marine Forces Japan, announced in a letter posted on social media X platform that all U.S. military personnel on Okinawa would ...

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Single caregiving” refers to a situation in which an unmarried adult child takes sole responsibility for caring for an aging parent.

A subsidiary of major book distributor Nippan Group Holdings, Inc. has sold Japanese books to U.S. artificial intelligence developer Anthropic PBC without notifying the publishers, it has been learned ...

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Oct. 7 marks three years since large-scale fighting broke out in the Palestinian territory of Gaza between the Islamist group Hamas and the Israeli military.