The internal affairs ministry data show increases in foreign populations not only in major cities and industrial districts ...

Japan’s rice harvest for 2026 is estimated at 7.4 million tons, down about 1% from the previous year’s 7.47 million tons, the ...

Over more than seven months of conflict in the Persian Gulf, Japan’s risk-averse refiners and shipowners have stayed away ...

Opposition parties grilled the prime minister on Tuesday on not just her policies, but also her new farm minister’s election ...

The policy will consider future population projections, as the country seeks to balance a reliance on foreign workers with a ...

A record 246 startup companies and universities, along with 194 overseas firms, are taking part in the four-day technology ...

Train services on a section of the Hisatsu Orange Railway line in Kumamoto Prefecture resumed Tuesday, 77 days after the July ...

The BOJ officials see little need for consecutive rate hikes in the absence of signs that upside inflation risks will ...

Okamoto said he called for Komeito to become a rallying point for realignment because he wanted to build a bloc of lawmakers ...

Kim Jong Un inaugurated the museum — chock full of advanced weaponry — as Donald Trump teased the idea of a summit next month ...

Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama is set to become chair of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s Development ...

The measure of input prices climbed 6.8% in September from a year earlier, slowing from 7.6% in the previous month, according ...