Sexual minority couples will be officially recognized in Tokyo after the metropolitan assembly enacted a bill to revise the ...
Japan is set to face a shortage of around 1 million medical and welfare service workers in 2040, when the country’s elderly ...
An act of vandalism that toppled 58 historic gravestones at the final resting place of prisoners who died building modern ...
Asian stocks were mixed Monday after Wall Street set more records, and oil surged more than 3% following U.S. President ...
At least 76,941 people died alone at home across Japan in 2025, and 22,222 of them were not found until at least eight days ...
Starbucks announced it will raise prices of 20 or so coffee beverages and five coffee bean products at around 600 stores, or ...
Thirty years on from the fatal sarin nerve gas attack in Tokyo’s subway network, survivors and families who lost loved ones ...
The Tokyo Stock Exchange extended its daily trading hours by a half-hour for the first extension in 70 years to better deal ...
The probability of a magnitude-8 or -9 megaquake occurring in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years has risen to “around ...
Southeast Asian leaders met in an annual summit Friday under intense pressure to mitigate the impact on their people and ...
As Japanese shares finally reclaim past peaks it harks back to a time when everyone in the country seemed to be a stock ...
The government is considering amending the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law to revoke the permanent residency ...