A Cabinet Office survey targeting people who gave up on running for office, unsuccessful candidates and local assembly ...

Heavy rain is expected mainly in southwest Japan's Kyushu region and across western and eastern Japan through June 11.

Amid calls that Self-Defense Force members be honored at Tokyo's Yasukuni Jinja shrine if they die in war, some have ...

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Tokyo stocks climbed Tuesday morning, lifted by heavyweight technology shares tracking gains in their U.S. counterparts ...

The government plans to release another 200,000 tons of rice from its stockpiles through direct contracts with retailers, ...

Looking at the leafy weeping willow standing on the banks of a serene river in Hiroshima, one would never guess it endured ...

TOKYO -- Father's Day this year in Japan is on June 15. But many kindergartens and day care centers are now having "family ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for ...

Senior U.S. and Chinese officials met in London on Monday, with a top economic adviser to President Donald Trump expecting ...

The Pentagon planned to deploy about 700 Marines to Los Angeles on Monday to help National Guard members respond to ...