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

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party started discussions to revise Japan’s national defense policy on Nov. 20 with a focus on ...

Screenwriter So Kuramoto, who created ‘Kita no Kuni Kara,’ dies ...

Japan’s public libraries are quietly undergoing a digital transformation. In just six years, the number of local governments ...

Sixty-two percent of voters support the government’s policy of accepting more foreign workers in industries with labor shortages, up sharply from below 50 percent in 2018, an Asahi Shimbun survey ...

I t is said very few professionals in the world have mastered the art to the degree of teasing out a higher caliber of notes and work ...

Instead of traditional outdoor activities and cookouts around the campfire at night, children at a specialized “study camp” set up near Mount Fuji were on a different mission.

The Japanese government has begun examining ways to dispatch the Self-Defense Forces to the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran is effectively blocking, under Japan’s pacifist Constitution and existing legal ...

Japan has lodged a strong protest with China over an apparent threat to behead Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in a social media post by the Chinese consul general in Osaka. “While the intent may not be ...

Trends that are changing the face of Japan are continuing, with the latest census revealing the largest-ever decline in the Japanese population while the increase in the foreign population is the ...

With more than 90 percent of its crude oil supply effectively choked off by the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, Japan is scrambling to secure alternative oil supplies, pivoting sharply to the United ...

Senior Defense Ministry and Self-Defense Forces officials are expressing deep concerns that the SDF can keep up with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s push to rapidly expand Japan’s military ...