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

Search efforts are under way after a crew member of a Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper went missing when the vessel ...

The economy ministry has lifted its restrictive bathroom policy for a transgender employee in her 50s, telling her on Nov. 8 ...

More than 10 percent of voters want four of six Supreme Court justices removed from the bench, according to a national review ...

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

An autumn-themed exhibition is running at the Art Aquarium Museum Ginza in Tokyo's Chuo Ward, immersing visitors in a ...

To combat one of the worst global instances of overwork, the labor ministry is set to introduce new regulations that will ban continuous work periods of 14 days or more.

The leader of the opposition Democratic Party for the People on Nov. 11 admitted to the report of infidelity posted on an internet tabloid news site and apologized for his behavior. “The report was ...

Japanese consumers don’t have to hear about the increasing popularity of the Shine Muscat through the grapevine, but can see it in the clusters of yellow-green grapes packing produce sections.

The Burrn! music magazine marked the 40th anniversary of its foundation despite finding itself in a jam over drastic changes ...

Man is compared to a thinking reed, “ashi” in Japanese while the humble octopus is often likened to thinking legs, also “ashi ...

Fishing operations are finally back to normal, well almost, at the port of Wajima in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, following ...