Despite Japan’s reputation as a vending machine heaven, inflation has driven some companies that sell canned and bottled drinks to pull out of the industry or drastically reduce the number of machines ...

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

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Oct. 5 devoted about 60 percent of her opening policy speech in the extraordinary Diet ...

Okinawa police arrested a U.S. Marine on suspicion of murdering a local woman at a hotel, a crime that has drawn outrage from ...

The vote by faculty members is considered just one factor in choosing the president. In 2014, under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 Japan Meteorological Agency called for vigilance across the Kanto region as the ninth typhoon of the season looked set to pound the Izu island chain south of Tokyo as early as Aug. 1. It warned of ...