Japan's Cabinet on Aug. 5 approved a policy to cut the consumption tax rate on food and beverages from 8% to 1%. However, ...

A research team has confirmed ground-surface displacement stretching about 33 kilometers along a fault zone after the ...

Tokyo stocks ended mixed Friday, as investors locked in profits from heavyweight technology shares, while bargain hunting in ...

The administration of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, to begin with, lacks efforts to sit down and address nuclear disarmament ...

Typhoon Dolphin, a large and strong tropical storm and the 13th of the year, moved west on the morning of Aug. 7, bringing ...

Tomato growers in this quake-struck city, Japan's top tomato-producing area, face the prospect of being unable to grow their ...

The Fukuoka Prefectural Assembly has disclosed expense breakdowns on its website on Aug. 6 for overseas study trips that have ...

TOKYO -- The small Japanese opposition party Reiwa Shinsengumi decided Aug. 6 to change its name to Inochi no To, or "party ...

A student shot several people at a high school outside Bangkok on Friday, killing at least six people and wounding severa ...

Japan's food self-sufficiency rate on a caloric intake basis reached a record low 37 percent in the fiscal year that ended ...

Typhoon Dolphin moved over Japan's southern remote islands Friday, causing a main airport on Okinawa to close and grounding ...

A mother in the Japanese capital launched an online petition July 7 calling for sex offenders to be kept out of schools after ...