According to a survey conducted by The Asahi Shimbun, the Tokyo metropolitan government and many prefectural governments have either introduced or are planning to incorporate the system in the ...

This will be the first such initiative at the prefectural level in Japan ... its own measures with the national system, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government began offering free day care services ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nuclear deterrence should not be the "final form of security," a Japanese forum said Monday in its ...

The government plans to expand eligibility to include people taking up jobs in agriculture, medicine and welfare, as well as ...

AICHI (TR) – The Aichi Prefectural Government has revealed that a hospital in Ichinomiya City headed by Hirofumi Imamura, a ...

The Tokyo prefectural government announced last week that it would foot the bill for testing immunity to Rubella for those eligible. The test is being offered to men living with a pregnant women ...

CHIBA (TR) – Chiba Prefectural Police have an arrested a child consultation center employee in Ichikawa City over the illicit touching of a middle school girl’s body, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Mar.

Participants include experts from nuclear powers such as the United States, China and Russia, as well as from non-nuclear ...

A sinkhole accident in Yashio is believed to have been caused by damage to an underground sewage pipe. Read more at ...

HACHIJO, Japan -- I am driving a rental scooter along Tokyo Prefectural Route 216 ... administered by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's islands division, but it could hardly be more different.