Education minister Toshiko Abe has apologized for telling a Japanese Communist Party member during a committee meeting that ...

Students from across Japan convened here March 26 to present a list of over 20,000 signatures imploring Japan to sign and ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced a 25% additional tariff on all imported automobiles -- a hardline protectionist ...

The Tokyo District Court has ordered a local Chinese restaurant to pay some 70 million yen (about $464,000) in compensation ...

A closing ceremony was held on March 24 at Ryugasaki Municipal Omiya Elementary School in Ibaraki Prefecture, which will ...

Japan's Imperial Household Agency said Friday it will launch its official YouTube channel next month to showcase the ...

Prices of rice in Tokyo jumped around 90 percent in March from a year earlier, with the government's recent release of ...

Josh Weigensberg, a partner at the law firm Pryor Cashman, said that one question the Ghibli-style AI art raises is whether ...

Yuko Kawai, vice president of the Bank of Kochi, will be promoted to the top post, becoming the first woman to lead a ...

Their choice to do so is seen as a violation of compulsory school attendance, since free schools are regarded as places for ...

A 48-year-old woman in Fukuoka Prefecture was arrested March 27 for allegedly stealing some 160 items including sugar placed ...

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co. and Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co. are set to begin merger talks to create Japan's largest ...