The Japan Meteorological Agency called for vigilance across the Kanto region as the ninth typhoon of the season looked set to pound the Izu island chain south of Tokyo as early as Aug. 1. It warned of ...

August, about 15 young children took a swimming lesson at the Narita branch of the Aeon Sports Club 3Fit fitness club chain ...

The stop was part of a bus line operated by the prefectural government that was a gateway into Nagasaki Prefecture. From next ...

Japanese homemaker Maki Watanabe carefully pours into a plastic bottle the oil she used to cook her deep-fried aubergines, doing her part in her Tokyo kitchen for a national effort to ramp up ...

The Cabinet on Sept. 15 approved the outline for a consumption tax cut on food and related support measures but offered no specifics on the revenue source for the multitrillion-yen project. The ...

Japan’s government on Aug. 7 officially launched a contentious debate on capping its foreign population as a high-level working group convened for the first time to hash out a future immigration ...

Japan is moving forward with plans to develop mines for rare earths in Africa as China tightens its export controls on the critical minerals, government sources said. The Japan Organization for Metals ...

BEIJING--Chinese police have detained those in charge of a steel factory in the Inner Mongolia region after an explosion killed two people and left 84 others hospitalized. A rescue team was searching ...

Overwork remains a potentially deadly health hazard for many Japanese public school teachers, as long hours and excessive workloads continue to push them beyond safe limits, recent data shows.

Japanese take for granted the late-night bento box, an onigiri rice ball for breakfast and quick cash withdrawal from an ATM that are the pillars of their daily lives. Toshifumi Suzuki, the visionary ...

Japan’s base salary grew at a 32-year-high pace in October, government data showed on Friday, boosting real wages after two ...

The Defense Ministry is gunning for its largest budget ever in its initial budget request of about 8.9 trillion yen ($56.1 billion) for fiscal 2027. This figure is expected to balloon further before ...