A panel of experts at the Environment Ministry is discussing changes to Japan’s drinking water standards to protect the ...

Along with ties and belts, a bra is usually banned at police holding cells due to the potential risks of detainees using it ...

Iwojima island, the stark volcanic outpost home to one of World War II’s fiercest battles, remains the site of an unfinished ...

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

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If not a member of the imperial family, Empress Masako admitted what her “dream job” would have been when she visited the prefecture-run Tobe Zoological Park here on May 17.

BEIJING--China’s Coast Guard on Monday said it had conducted “law enforcement” patrols in waters east of Taiwan in response to Japan and the Philippines’ plans to ‌launch maritime border delimitation ...

Japan’s government on Aug. 7 officially launched a contentious debate on capping its foreign population as a high-level working group convened for the first time to hash out a future immigration ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told parliament on Friday that homemade sources of energy like nuclear power and perovskite solar cells are important for the country. The first woman to lead ...

HIROSHIMA--Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stopped short of ruling out future revisions to Japan’s non-nuclear weapons policy during her visit here for the Aug. 6 peace memorial ceremony, choosing to ...

TOKYO/SINGAPORE--Japan will ‌receive a boost in Middle East crude supply ⁠this month as two ⁠more stranded Japanese-owned supertankers carrying Saudi oil were exiting the Strait of Hormuz on ⁠Tuesday, ...

The ancient capitals of Asuka and Fujiwara in Nara Prefecture were added to the UNESCO World Heritage list on July 26 at the committee’s meeting in Busan, South Korea. This brings Japan’s ...