The first melted fuel sample recovered from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant arrived at a research facility ...

The number of people 65 and older who live alone continues to increase. This demographic is expected to make up more than 20 ...

OTSU—The centuries-old Otsu Festival, featuring parades of lavishly decorated floats adorned with mechanical puppets, will ...

For example, in places of work with staff shortages, women are not free to take maternity or child care leave as they wish.

The Diet on Nov. 11 elected Shigeru Ishiba, president of the Liberal Democratic Party, as the 103rd prime minister of Japan ...

Local emergency responders are under fire here for wrongfully declaring an elderly man dead while he was still alive and in ...

Remember the mini-CD that was all rage in the 1990s when songs that dominated the charts in Japan all seemed to reach ...

Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) canceled press credentials to the SMBC Japan Series for a TV network that aired World ...

The 29th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) opened on Nov. 11 in Baku, ...

TOKYO--Japanese technology group SoftBank swung back to profitability in the July-September quarter, boosted by positive ...

A food company is using a “forbidden tactic” in its bid to put its sausages, a traditional breakfast or bento item,” on ...

NAGOYA—After a deluge of criticism, the leader of the Conservative Party of Japan retracted his suggestion that subjecting ...