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 ...

HIROSHIMA—An American man whose uncle died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima visited for the first time this year, retracing his uncle’s final days and imagining how his life ended in the inferno of ...

Longtime Canon Inc. President Fujio Mitarai will step down from his post at the age of 90, but he has no plans to retire for now. Canon announced on Jan. 29 that Executive Vice President Kazuto Ogawa, ...

ALTAY, China--China is hosting an international conference in Xinjiang to promote economic development efforts in the northwestern region, which has been known as the site of mass detentions of ethnic ...

TAIPEI--Taiwan kicked off a five-day set of military drills on Monday aimed at boosting the island’s combat readiness in case of a Chinese military attack. In the city of Taoyuan, home to the island’s ...

A joint task force including the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department announced on April 7 the arrest of a Pakistani national on suspicion of violating the Stimulants Control Law by smuggling a ...

An agreement was reached at a reconvened international conference to increase the annual catch quota for large Pacific bluefin tuna by 25 percent from next year, which could lead to lower prices for ...

The number of births in Japan fell for the 10th consecutive year in 2025, hitting a record low of 705,809, according to ...

Japan’s public libraries are quietly undergoing a digital transformation. In just six years, the number of local governments ...

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.

I t is said very few professionals in the world have mastered the art to the degree of teasing out a higher caliber of notes and work ...

Domestic cultivation of fresh salmon and trout, species that are mainly imported to Japan, is rapidly increasing, particularly in the once-disaster stricken coastal areas of the Tohoku region. Miyagi ...