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

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 ...

A chance discovery of a metal fragment on a mountainside in southwestern Japan led one man to uncover a forgotten wartime ...

Japan's average unemployment rate in fiscal 2025 rose 0.1 percentage point from a year earlier to 2.6 percent, deteriorating ...

A Taiwanese court on Monday fined the local unit of Japan's Tokyo Electron Ltd. NT$150 million ($4.7 million) and sentenced a ...

The Bank of Japan began a two-day policy meeting on Monday to debate whether to raise its policy rate amid the prospect of ...

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

A young Japanese macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo in Chiba Prefecture became famous because he carried a stuffed toy. Now he is ...