Japan's Cabinet approved Wednesday a plan to lower the consumption tax rate on food and beverages to 1 percent from the ...

A research group from Ehime University's Paper Industry Innovation Center in this western Japan city and its Graduate School ...

A temple in this disaster-hit town is opening its own plastic pool on its grounds to children every day, offering them a ...

The University of Tokyo announced on Aug. 4 that it had taken disciplinary action against a professor in their 60s for ...

The United States sees the substantial undervaluation of the Japanese yen as a serious risk to economic stability in Asia, ...

The responsibility for securing confidence in the yen as a currency rests with the Japanese government. Relying on the United ...

A new novel in Keigo Higashino's best-selling Galileo mystery series went on sale Wednesday, less than two weeks after the ...

Japan's Finance Ministry in April urged a cutback in medical school enrollment in a subcommittee of the Fiscal System Council ...

A man who was reportedly covered in blood and wielding a kitchen knife died after being shot by police in Osaka Prefecture on ...

A large truck collided with a train in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, on Tuesday, after entering the tracks following a crash with ...

Following a promising start to his sumo career, a British-born teenager has fixed his sights on reaching the pinnacle of ...

Many spectators, including people returning to their hometown, lined the streets of this northern Japan city on Aug. 2 and 3 ...