Japan's lower house passed a bill Friday to expand monthly child allowances and parental leave in an effort to tackle the ...

A group of doctors and dentists in Japan on Thursday filed a lawsuit seeking a total of about 1.4 million yen ($9,000) in ...

The American envoy to the United Nations called Friday for countries armed with atomic weapons to pursue nuclear disarmament ...

The Bank of Japan is considering forecasting Japan's core inflation will be around 2 percent in fiscal 2026 in its new ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso is making arrangements to meet in New York with Donald Trump, who is seeking to be ...

This column introduces recommended Japanese picture books, along with related terms and culture that foreigners living in ...

Earthquakes could continue for another week or so following a powerful temblor that struck western Japan on the night of ...

Japan's lower house passed a bill on Friday aimed at facilitating the swift removal of defamatory content on social media ...

The central Japanese city of Nagoya will host the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in December 2025, the Aichi ...

San Francisco is the latest U.S. city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing's famed ...

The average unit price of a new condominium in Tokyo and its surrounding areas rose 9.5 percent in fiscal 2023 from the ...

Nissan Motor Co. on Friday lowered its net profit forecast for fiscal 2023 to 370 billion yen ($2.4 billion) from an initial ...