The communications ministry on Nov. 2 began discussing changes to landline services, including allowing households to block all international calls, to thwart cross-border phone scammers. The National ...

GMO Internet Group Inc. failed to detect a cyberattack on a subsidiary’s service for about two and a half months, enabling the intruder to steal files from customers’ computers, the company revealed ...

Japan should eventually reduce, rather than raise, its cap on foreign workers under a visa program designed to fill labor shortages, Kimi Onoda, minister of policy on foreign nationals, said Nov. 2.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced her second reshuffled Cabinet on Sept. 17 after personally reviewing questionnaires filled by Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers on what posts they desired in ...

The average price of a new apartment in Tokyo’s 23 wards in fiscal 2025 topped 130 million yen ($827,000) for the first time, while surrounding areas also soared to record highs, a report showed. The ...

OSAKA—For the first time in six years, the Kyoto-Osaka area gained a new top-rated, three-star Michelin restaurant. Miyamaso, located on a mountain foothill in Kyoto’s Hanase district, received the ...

The labor ministry on Aug. 19 unveiled new guidelines to end urging companies to cap monthly overtime at 45 hours, making it easier for employers to utilize overtime options allowed under the current ...

The Cabinet on Sept. 15 approved the outline for a consumption tax cut on food and related support measures but offered no specifics on the revenue source for the multitrillion-yen project. The ...

BANGKOK—An airstrike carried out by Myanmar’s military near a market in territory controlled by a powerful rebel group killed at least 49 people and wounded 58 others on Monday, the group and a rescue ...

Iwojima island, the stark volcanic outpost home to one of World War II’s fiercest battles, remains the site of an unfinished search—for the Imperial Japanese Army soldiers who never made it home. Of ...

UTSUNOMIYA—Police have arrested a Yokohama couple on suspicion of directing four teenagers to perpetrate a home invasion that left a 69-year-old woman dead and her two sons injured. The arrests of ...

The average minimum wage in Japan will climb to 1,177 yen ($8) an hour in fiscal 2026, up 56 yen, or 5.0 percent, and representing the second-highest hike in history. The country’s 47 prefectures, ...