TOKYO -- Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba told reporters on Oct. 3 that he must "sincerely accept" the fact that approval ...

Police were informed of an explosion at a park in northern Tokyo on Friday, investigative sources said, though no injuries ...

A team of researchers from institutions including the Jikei University School of Medicine in the Japanese capital on Oct. 4 ...

The parents of a Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) member who killed himself in 2015 due to harassment by an instructor have ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly on Friday approved a draft ordinance to prevent customers from abusing workers in a first for ...

The governor of Ibaraki Prefecture stressed the need to discuss the impact of prefectural high schools' numbered names on Oct ...

A wage hike alone is not enough to secure workers for Japan's education system. Further strategies to lower their workloads ...

Israel carried out a series of massive airstrikes overnight in southern suburbs of Beirut and another that cut off the main ...

On a brisk late September morning in the heart of Chablis wine country, grape pickers haul large and heavy buckets over th ...

A crane game called "grape catcher" is gaining attention at a tourist farm in the city of Mimasaka, Okayama Prefecture. The ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday promised to restore trust in politics following a series of scandals and tried to ...

The transport ministry said it will check Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan for unexploded bombs from World War II after ...