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 mother in the Japanese capital launched an online petition July 7 calling for sex offenders to be kept out of schools after ...
Far from her native Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan, a Japanese woman is helping revitalize a rural community in Vietna ...
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is once more trying to limit the number of people who are born in the country ...
Japan's household spending in June fell a real 3.3 percent from a year earlier, government data showed Friday.
The United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare on Aug. 6, 1945. The olive-green steel cylinder called ...
The number of foreign visitors to Japan's parliament building reached 13,697 in 2025, the highest since record-keeping began ...
On the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima -- the first use of a nuclear weapon in war -- we should ask: Can ...
The Japanese government has refused to acknowledge the bombings as a "violation of international law" and has kept its ...
Maki Morita became the first female umpire to call a spring or summer Koshien high school baseball tournament game in Japan, ...
More than 70 children's faces cover an entire wall at an exhibition in this western Japan city featuring original artwork and ...
The following is the text of the Commitment to Peace from children's representatives of Hiroshima, delivered on Aug. 6, 2026, ...