Shoppers may soon get welcome relief for soaring rice prices as the government started the release of its massive stockpile of the staple food stored for emergencies on March 18.

Hong Kong's post office announced late Thursday it would continue to suspend shipping items containing goods to the United ...

HIROSHIMA—The district court here rejected a request on March 5 by plaintiffs to stop operations at the Ikata nuclear power ...

Japan will not attend a U.N. conference on the treaty banning nuclear weapons, a top government official in Tokyo said Monday ...

The Cabinet Office released on March 31 slightly lower death and disaster projections from an expected Nankai Trough ...

The government plans to provide cash handouts, likely 50,000 yen ($344) per person, to ease the burden of the higher cost of ...

Amid growing financial pressure, the University of Tokyo will raise tuition by 20 percent starting next academic year, likely ...

Toyota Motor was ramping back production at its Japan-based factories on Wednesday after a computer system processing orders ...

The government has outlined measures to prevent an excessive concentration of foreign workers in major urban areas under a ...

Japan’s Fair Trade Commission issued a cease-and-desist order to Google LLC on April 15 to stop forcing smartphone ...

One major insurance company has admitted to being reluctant to look into suspicious activity at Bigmotor Co. repair shops ...

To lessen its reliance on China in the mineral resources market, Japan for the first time has acquired a stake in the rare ...