The Diet passed three landmark bills on July 17 that were strongly pushed by Prime Minister Sanae Takachi that include ...

Tokyo-based crowdfunding company Ubugoe Inc. is withholding millions of yen in donations from at least six organizations that ...

A final piece of the construction puzzle has been approved for the ultra-high-speed Linear Chuo Shinkansen Line project, ...

BEIJING/TAIPEI—Papua New Guinea’s foreign minister said on Thursday his government has decided to close Taiwan’s ...

SEOUL—A South Korean court on Monday sentenced ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol to two years in prison for illegally receiving ...

Seventy-two percent of voters believe that Japan should legalize same-sex marriages, compared with 18 percent who oppose such a change, according to an Asahi Shimbun survey conducted on Feb. 18 and 19 ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi isn't shying away from the hot button issue of Taiwan that her predecessors tread lightly on, citing a condition for Japan to provide support in exercising its right of ...

Canada said it granted refugee status to two Japanese women last September due to widespread discrimination they faced in Japan as lesbians and members of the weaker sex. Ottawa also cited the lack of ...

VOX POPULI: ‘Big Brother’ is watching, with some help from AI systems ...

A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global.

A Japanese voice actor has sued the operator of TikTok, arguing that video postings using an AI-generated voice on the social media platform infringed on his rights to his voice. Kenjiro Tsuda, known ...

The government is adjusting its plans to formulate a policy to strengthen the domestic defense industry by the end of fiscal 2026, according to government sources. In its first “defense industry ...