For decades, Japan's defense spending remained around 1% of GDP. Just two and a half years ago, at the end of 2022, the ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) will introduce a new overnight limited express train set to run between the Tokyo ...

Hokkaido University's chemistry department has permitted several associate professors -- who had previously complained of ...

Japan's National Police Agency (NPA) decided June 26 that it will require dealers buying items like electric cables and air ...

Executives at a major home tutoring operator on June 25 apologized to Kumamoto Mayor Toshiharu Takaoka for an error in online ...

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) secured its lowest number of seats ever in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election on ...

Japan's chief negotiator on Thursday set off for another round of tariff negotiations with the United States, reiterating ...

Tokyo stocks climbed Thursday for a third straight day, with the Nikkei index ending at a five-month high, boosted by ...

The number of mental disorder cases recognized as work-related in Japan rose by 172 in fiscal 2024 to 1,055, marking a record ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday equated the American military's weekend airstrikes on Iran's key nuclear facilities ...

A new film tells the true story of two Japanese soldiers in World War II. The soldiers lived for two years on top of a very ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)'s largest faction formerly led by ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was ...