At least 73 local assemblies in 24 prefectures have submitted formal opinions to the central government calling for the ...

Kayoko Mori, wife of the late historian and atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori, met in Hiroshima on June 3 with relatives of ...

The impact of bullying extends far beyond school years and continues to significantly affect people's lives even after ...

Foreign nationals running international restaurants and import food shops in Japan are facing the threat of going out of ...

Japan trained for the first time at their World Cup base in Nashville, Tennessee, after arriving Monday from a pre-tou ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Tuesday called for securing funding to transform the country's defense ...

Major music house Victor Entertainment Inc., based in Tokyo, will launch a regional revitalization project in this ...

Watching Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi leaves a sense of something missing. There are no sharp exchanges in the Diet, the ...

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The population of endangered short-tailed albatrosses on a remote Japanese island has exceeded 10,000 for the first time ...

Nippon Steel Corp. will invest up to $2.5 billion in United States Steel Corp.'s facilities in Pennsylvania over three years, ...

Sumo grand champion Hoshoryu and other top wrestlers departed Tokyo's Haneda airport Tuesday for Paris, where they will ...