The ruling coalition headed by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba suffered a bruising defeat in the Upper House election. Voters ...

A female sophomore at a prestigious private university in Tokyo was appalled by the fast pace and difficult lectures in ...

The phone, held out to him by an employee, displayed the Google search results for the company’s name, Iwate Sen-i. At the ...

Japan's Shiho Kuwaki claimed her first major title by defeating Germany's Esther Henseleit in a playoff to win the Women's ...

SENDAI—Following a spate of maulings, the Environment Ministry will set up at least 800 cameras by the end of July to count ...

Japan has experienced multiple “supereruptions” throughout its history, and one volcanologist is not sitting around idly ...

A late-week rally in global shares left them on track for weekly gains after earnings from some U.S. tech giants eased ...

Prioritizing speed, the government is moving to lower the consumption tax on groceries to 1 percent—not the promised zero-percent rate—for a two-year period starting next April, officials said June 2.

Major Japanese shipping companies have suspended navigation through the globally crucial Strait of Hormuz amid the heightened military conflict between Iran and the United States and Israel. Mitsui ...

BIBAI, Hokkaido—A data center here that uses snow to cool down its heated servers is now using the snowmelt to farm eels. Around 1,700 elvers brought in by plane from Kobe were released into tanks at ...

Japan’s transport ministry will limit the number of power banks allowed on flights and effectively ban their onboard use starting in mid-April, a move prompted by a recent series of alarming incidents ...

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 ...