A high court ruled that the current limitations of choosing either male or female descriptors in Japan’s family registration ...

NAGOYA--Kintetsu Railway Co. said it will start operating a restaurant train featuring French cuisine with local products on ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s opposition to legalizing separate surnames for married couples is shared by only 24 percent ...

An act of vandalism that toppled 58 historic gravestones at the final resting place of prisoners who died building modern ...

Toyota Motor Corp. said May 11 it will build a fourth vehicle assembly plant in India that will raise total annual production capacity to about 500,000 units in the world’s third-largest auto market.

Poet Mudo Hashimoto (1903-1974) couldn’t be happier living in a “nagaya” (traditional Japanese one-story terraced house) in ...

In response to opposition party demands, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said she has directed her government to consider new ...

Rosemary Okui Arocha has firsthand experience of how a single mistranslation can irreparably change someone's life forever.

LONDON--A U.K. border official and former Hong Kong police officer were convicted Thursday of spying for China by carrying ...

At least 76,941 people died alone at home across Japan in 2025, and 22,222 of them were not found until at least eight days ...

Woven City, Toyota Motor Corp.’s experimental smart community here where residents try out futuristic technologies, opened a development hub called Inventor Garage in April.

Japan is set to face a shortage of around 1 million medical and welfare service workers in 2040, when the country’s elderly ...