Japanese authorities seeking to reduce the carbon footprint and overcrowding at Mount Fuji will propose a trackless, ...
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 ...
Thirty years on from the fatal sarin nerve gas attack in Tokyo’s subway network, survivors and families who lost loved ones ...
Starbucks announced it will raise prices of 20 or so coffee beverages and five coffee bean products at around 600 stores, or ...
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 ...
As Japanese shares finally reclaim past peaks it harks back to a time when everyone in the country seemed to be a stock ...
Although rice shortages have left supermarket shelves bare, tons of the grain are thrown out every day. The stock of staple ...
The government is considering amending the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law to revoke the permanent residency ...