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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Yomiuri ShimbunProf. Takeshi Nakamori discusses Imony at Yamagata University’s Kojirakawa Campus in Yamagata City. By Ryoma Obara / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer [posttime] JST, [postdate] YAMAGATA ...

Cristiano Ronaldo is not following Lionel Messi into international retirement just yet. The Portugal superstar said he will remain available to play for his national team, despite having walked out on ...

With the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Para Games set to open on Oct. 18, a ceremony to light the sacred flame took place Tuesday at a local special needs school in Nishio, Aichi Prefecture.

The Hanshin Tigers’ back-to-back Central League championship has generated a total of about ¥105.1 billion in economic benefits nationwide, according to the calculation by Katsuhiro Miyamoto, a ...