The opposition Democratic Party for the People may pull its support and oppose the new fiscal year's budget if Prime Minister ...

Nippon Life Insurance Co. will become the first major Japanese company to use an environmental group’s rating system to ...

Reacting to reports of a possible snap election, the Nikkei 225 index closed at 53,549.16 on Jan. 13, up 1,609.27 points from ...

MAEBASHI—Akira Ogawa, who was ousted as Maebashi mayor over her secret rendezvous with a married subordinate at a love hotel, ...

The number of Japanese nationals entering the United States on student visas in 2025 fell by about 3,000 compared to the ...

Japan’s Finance Minister ⁠Satsuki Katayama said she and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent shared concerns ‌over what she ...

SHIZUOKA--A Japanese mining ship departed on Monday for a remote coral atoll to probe mud rich in rare earths, part of ...

When the killer’s identity is revealed at the end of a murder mystery, you are totally floored because you never saw it ...

NAHA--The Naha deputy mayor will run in the Okinawa gubernatorial election and likely gain support from the Liberal ...

One early afternoon in November, Nanako Shibasaki popped into Hangry Joe's Tokyo in the capital's Akihabara district, which ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will host South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in her hometown on Tuesday, in a summit ...

Stunned by the discovery that she had a new older “brother,” a woman in her 60s in Tokyo confronted her father about the ...