MISAKI, Okayama -- This depopulating and aging western Japan town has been undergoing drastic reforms as it pursues "smart ...

Despite tuition becoming free beginning this academic year, nearly half of parents of new first-year students at private high ...

Japan's Olympic pairs figure skating champions Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara revealed Tuesday they decided to retire ...

A panel reviewing the 2025 Osaka Expo has compiled a draft report calling for any operating surplus, estimated at 32 billion ...

Japan and Australia reaffirmed their cooperation toward realizing a free and open Indo-Pacific, or FOIP, amid an increasingly ...

Japan's smallest municipality at just 3.47 square kilometers, is selling lifetime bathing rights to a local bathhouse to ...

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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will visit Vietnam and Australia for talks with their leaders during a five-day trip ...

Two months have passed since the United States and Israel launched a military operation against Iran. Although a temporary ...

For foreign nationals in Japan, their residency status is their foundation for living in this country. It is unreasonable to ...

A major project to preserve and repair the five-storied pagoda at Rurikoji temple, a national treasure that was built in the ...

Why are some Japanese officials considering temporarily dropping the consumption tax on food and beverages to 1% instead of 0 ...