The Bank of Japan is expected to keep its key interest rate steady at its policy meeting in late July while likely revising ...

Isamu Sonoda, a judo gold medalist at the 1976 Montreal Olympics who later coached popular female judoka Ryoko Tani to ...

Japan's parliament decided on Friday to extend its current session for eight days until July 25 as the ruling bloc needs more ...

Deliberations on a bill to revise Japan's Imperial House Law began in a House of Councillors special committee on July 15, ...

Japan's sandy beaches are shrinking. For about 40 years from shortly after World War II, the main reason was that less sand ...

Amid the widespread adoption of telework since the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns are growing in Japan and abroad about the ...

Yanai goldfish lanterns are a local folk craft made by pasting Japanese paper over bamboo frames to form the shape of a ...

Tourists enjoy taking photos along the ...

The Nikkei stock index plunged Friday, briefly falling over 6 percent, as investors accelerated selling amid overheating ...

Japan's parliament enacted Friday a historic revision to the 19th-century Imperial House Law by insisting only ...

Japan's enactment of a new law banning desecration of the national flag has reignited debate over the balance between ...

A Kyushu University research group has, for the first time in the world, identified a tactile nerve that suppresses pain, ...