Crown Prince Akishino declined to discuss the revised Imperial House Law, enacted last month, at a news conference at the Akasaka East Residence in Tokyo on Thursday. “I have various thoughts,” but ...

U.S. technology giant Google opened its first directly run store outside the United States in Tokyo’s fashionable Omotesando district Thursday. The store sells smartphones and offers repair services.

The number of passport applications in Japan in July increased 1.6 times from a year earlier to about 530,000, following a fee reduction starting that month, it was learned Thursday. There were about ...

Around 90% of Ukraine’s exports of wheat, corn and sunflower — of which it is among the world’s largest producers — go through the Black Sea.

Summer Sonic began in 2000 with two stages, 29 musical acts and more than 15,000 attendees. Twenty-five years later, its creator is expecting between 300,000 and 330,000 people at the event’s ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi described the visit as incompatible with Japan’s position on the islands, which are an inherent part of Japanese territory.

Some residents hesitate to go to evacuation centers or struggle to obtain information on relief supplies due to language barriers and cultural differences.

The yen threatened to test ¥160 to the dollar on Thursday as investors balanced the fundamentals, which suggest weakening, and the ever-present possibility that Japan and the United States will spend ...

As more people shift to low-priced private-label products and competition intensifies in the beverage market, some makers managed to cultivate new demand by changing bottle design.

The protests are becoming one of the biggest political challenges for Narendra Modi, adding to pressure since his party lost its outright majority in the 2024 election.

Safety checks were completed quickly following the 7.1 magnitude earthquake on July 28, which registered up to 7, the highest level on Japan’s seismic intensity scale.

Mounting debts are the latest blow for an initiative that has struggled with governance, supply chain problems, mass food-poisoning and financial cutbacks.