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

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

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

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 rover reached the milestone 5½ years into its mission to explore if conditions conducive to microbial life ever existed ...

Arnon Nampa was imprisoned in Thailand for calling for the reform of the Thai monarchy. He has been behind bars ever since. I ...

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

America and Israel’s unilateral aggression against Iran lacked international legitimacy and predictably destabilized the ...

France might be the first casualty, with other borrowers potentially being seen as expensive compared to what Japanese ...

The International Monetary Fund noted a growing divergence between countries benefiting from artificial intelligence and ...