KUMAMOTO — Kumamoto Prefecture’s mascot Kumamon celebrated the 15th anniversary of his 2010 debut in March. Kumamon is one of Japan’s most beloved characters for regional promotion. The prefecture is ...

Rice prices and inflation are putting pressure on Ishiba’s minority government.

TOKYO - The government’s latest forecast on the damage from a possible Nankai Trough megaquake indicates that faster ...

Tokyo’s city government is offering employees a four-day workweek aimed at boosting population growth and improving work-life ...

Japan’s parliament, the Diet, voted this week to make public high school free for all children. Tuition fees had been ...

TOKYO – Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department set up Tuesday a section specializing in investigating lone offender terrorism ...

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

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba says his government is making last ditch efforts to get U.S. President Donald Trump to ...

Japan's parliament passed the budget for fiscal 2025 on Monday, the day before the new financial year starts, after Prime ...

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.

A scarcity of rice is causing discontent among farmers and consumers in Japan and drawing attention to a policy some say has ...

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