Shigeru Ishiba was voted in as the 102nd prime minister of Japan at an extraordinary Diet session on Oct. 1 and faced ...

Japan’s environment and industry ministries on Tuesday finalized a plan to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 60% from ...

A research team led by Sony AI developed an artificial intelligence-based robot capable of bringing its A-game to table ...

The Japanese government entered the lethal weapons export business after lifting the ban on April 21 by revising the Three ...

Author Asako Yuzuki has pulled the publishing rights for her international best-selling novel “Butter” from Shinchosha ...

Stocks retreated in Asia on Thursday after an initial jump that pushed Japan's Nikkei 225 index above 60,000 for the first ...

The Yamato Museum reopened here on April 23 following year-long renovations to bring the behemoth World War II battleship ...

MITO—Ibaraki Prefecture will offer a cash reward starting May 11 to residents who report employers hiring undocumented ...

The Liberal Democratic Party’s Research Commission on Security on April 22 started compiling its first official ...

Huge plumes of smoke blanketed swaths of the Southeast on Wednesday as crews battled rapidly growing wildfires that destroyed ...

The city mayor here will receive his retirement bonus at the end of his four-year term in November but he is asking the ...

Firefighters continued to battle wildfires on April 23 that burned at two locations through the previous night driven by ...