According to statistics from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, while the total number of divorces has been falling since peaking at around 290,000 couples in 2002, the proportion of gray ...

At Daichi-in temple in the city of Chita, Aichi Prefecture, the production of "fukumasu" boxes used for bean-throwing rituals during the Setsubun festival is underway. Staff will finish about 2,000 ...

Osaka Prefectural Police on Jan. 23 announced disciplinary action, including dismissal and suspension, against 12 officers involved in assaul ...

The president of Prudential Life Insurance Co. apologized on Friday after around 100 of its employees and former employees ...

The government on Friday compiled a policy package to toughen rules for foreigners in Japan and promote social cohesion, as Prime Min ...

Is Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (TEPCO) qualified as a nuclear power plant operator? As the government presses ahead with a return to nu ...

TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance Ltd. said Thursday it has finalized a deal to set up a majority American-owned joint venture ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit the United States toward the end of ...

Relying on her high approval rating, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's gamble to dissolve Japan's House of Representatives on Friday fo ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted his European allies Thursday for what he portrayed as the continent's slow, ...

A citizens group has submitted a petition to the Kanagawa prefectural election commission requesting activities to raise ...

A car camping trial was recently held in this southwest Japan city to test using vehicles as an evacuation option for people with autism ...