All four presidential candidates of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan support legalizing same-sex marriage, a ...

Convenience store chain operators are now focusing on compact, unstaffed shops that emphasize quality as the number of their ...

A national academic achievement test and a simultaneously conducted survey revealed students tend to score lower on tests ...

SEOUL--North Korea has poured up to $1.6 billion (about 231.2 billion yen) into its nuclear development program over the last ...

Japan’s first local regulation requiring solar panel installations on new single-family homes took effect on April 1 in Tokyo ...

First-year high school students climbed to third place in reading comprehension in the latest global aptitude survey, a ...

Yoshinobu Tsutsui’s humble beginnings and the social norms he learned during childhood helped to propel him to the top of ...

Nineteen people were taken to hospitals after a pungent odor spread at the Ginza Six commercial complex in downtown Tokyo ...

A canned mackerel product developed by high schoolers in Fukui Prefecture for consumption in outer space has returned to the ...

Driven by the weak yen, Japan's economic output produced its lowest percentage on record in the global economy last year, ...

The Idemitsu Maru oil tanker arrived off the coast of Nagoya Port on May 25, becoming the first Japan-bound vessel of its ...

Komusubi Wakatakakage took another major step on the comeback trail from a severe knee injury suffered three years ago, ...