Japan's education ministry proposed on July 8 setting annual class hours for a new junior high school subject, ...

The Gunma Prefectural Government is set to alter the application system for its "Gunma Passport" booklet from a first-come, ...

Internationally renowned Japanese author Haruki Murakami released on Friday his first novel in around three years, a ...

Private rooms scheduled to be adopted on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines this fall with the introduction of a new ...

The risk of death from heatstroke rises when the daytime high exceeds 27.1 C, a joint study by the Tokyo metropolitan ...

Major Japanese snack maker Calbee Inc. said Thursday it will gradually resume full-color printing for the packaging of eight ...

A star festival themed tunnel decorated with colorful weather dolls has been set up at Tanashi Jinja shrine in the western ...

The yield on Japan's benchmark 10-year government bond briefly hit 2.900 percent Thursday afternoon for the first time since ...

The amount Japanese people are planning to spend on average for their summer holidays this year fell for the first time in ...

President Donald Trump flew partway home from a NATO summit in Turkey on an old baby blue Air Force One plane instead of the ...

July 8 marked four years since former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatally gunned down during a House of ...

South Korea's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a seven-year prison sentence for former President Yoon Suk Yeol in the first ...