SEOUL--North Korea has poured up to $1.6 billion (about 231.2 billion yen) into its nuclear development program over the last ...

A national academic achievement test and a simultaneously conducted survey revealed students tend to score lower on tests ...

First-year high school students climbed to third place in reading comprehension in the latest global aptitude survey, a ...

Japan’s first local regulation requiring solar panel installations on new single-family homes took effect on April 1 in Tokyo ...

Yoshinobu Tsutsui’s humble beginnings and the social norms he learned during childhood helped to propel him to the top of ...

Cyclists were involved in 23.3 percent of all traffic accidents in Japan in 2022, the highest rate on record, according to ...

Anime studios were once perceived as places where dreams are created, but in reality, front-line artists in the expanding ...

A dire trend in graying Japan is expected to worsen over the coming decades, with close to half of all households forecast to ...

A recent increase in bankruptcies caused by the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic has raised concerns about widespread defaults on ...

Phone fans in Japan don’t have to dig as deep into their pockets, with a new survey showing that they sell for about 20 percent cheaper in their country than the rest of the world.

Driven by the weak yen, Japan's economic output produced its lowest percentage on record in the global economy last year, ...

Teachers and staff members are responsible for more than half of the incidents of harassment and other difficulties ...