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 ...

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Japan finance minister tells Bessent PM Takaichi is not a reflationist ...

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

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 ...

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.

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia--Russia on Tuesday condemned upcoming joint military exercises between Japan, Australia and the United States and said it had formally complained to Tokyo about the deployment of U ...

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 ...

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