Population decline and the future of regional areas is one of the most critical themes that should be addressed in Japan's ...

The Tokyo High Court will issue a decision March 4 regarding a request from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, ...

Due to warm air flowing in from the south, Hokkaido on Feb. 4 experienced weather comparable to that of March or April in ...

Candidates of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) running in the House of Representatives election are divided over ...

The chief executive of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. told Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday of the ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. plans to restart a reactor at a nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has come under fire for deciding to hold Sunday's general election during the peak ...

Staging future Winter Games as early as January and the Paralympic Winter Games in February is a possibility because of the ...

The general election is testing Japan's pacifist principles, with some conservative parties pushing to review them to better ...

Tetsuo Saito, a co-leader of Japan's newly formed opposition Centrist Reform Alliance, said Wednesday he will take ...

Los Angeles Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani made an early start to preseason Wednesday, training independently in ...

The Mainichi Shimbun asked all 1,285 candidates in the Feb. 8 House of Representatives election about their views on nuclear weapons. Of thes ...