Weather officials warn that areas in the Kinki and Tokai regions that typically see little snow may be hit with heavy ...

For the first time, U.N. special rapporteurs called on the Japanese government to consider declaring a moratorium on capital ...

A government-commissioned panel of experts on Wednesday largely supported Japan’s new energy policy for the next few years ...

YAMAGATA--A film featuring secretly recorded interviews with detainees at an immigration facility in Ibaraki Prefecture sheds ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. filed an application with the government on Jan. 23 to raise electricity rates for households by an ...

In late August, six trainees were drawing anime characters under the guidance of an instructor at a room in a major anime ...

A scandal at Mitsubishi Electric Corp. involving fraudulent testing dating to the 1980s has already turned up nearly 200 ...

Convenience store chain operators are now focusing on compact, unstaffed shops that emphasize quality as the number of their ...

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

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

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

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