A Japanese department store where staff could wear badges if they were on their period has said it will "rethink" that policy. The badges - which featured a cartoon character known as Miss Period ...

OTSU -- The Shiga Prefectural Government in west Japan now allows employees to wear name badges showing just their last names to prevent customer harassment by visitors. According to the ...

These forces gained influence in the Japanese parliament, while those parties opposed to any amendment waned. Business and the media too pushed for change. Today, almost all of Japan’s political ...

Now, after years of stop-start discussions and any number of administrative changes, the issue of introducing pro-casino legislation has finally made its way to the fore and onto the agenda of the ...

A record nine candidates will contest Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s leadership election on Sept. 27. The vote is ...

Japan stands ready to take further stimulus steps as economic and financial market uncertainty emerges over the Ukraine crisis, policymakers said on Tuesday, as parliament approved a record $900 ...

Former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi is leading in support from fellow lawmakers in Japan’s ruling party leadership ...

The Japanese parliament has approved a change to a decades-old law, which will allow divorced couples to share custody of their children from 2026. Traditionally, custody is granted to a single ...

TOKYO, September 16. /TASS/. The Japanese parliament on Wednesday approved the new chairman of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Yoshihide Suga, as the country’s new prime minister.

Japan will have a new leader after outgoing Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s governing Liberal Democratic Party holds a vote on ...

The long-awaited overhaul of sex crime laws was cleared in the Japanese parliament's upper house in a unanimous vote on Friday, the BBC reported. The definition of rape was changed from "forcible ...

TOKYO, April 20. /TASS/. The upper chamber of the Japanese parliament voted to uphold amendments to the country’s legislation, needed to toughen economic sanctions against Russia over its ...