The government and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party have started discussions on raising income tax rates in fiscal 2027 to ...

SYDNEY--Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles will travel to Japan on Saturday to meet his counterpart, Koizumi Shinjiro ...

The Liberal Democratic Party’s draft plan to shrink the Lower House entails seat reductions in all 11 proportional ...

American actor and playwright Jeremy O. Harris, known for the Tony-nominated "Slave Play", was arrested last month at an ...

The Japanese embassy in China issued a safety advisory on Friday ahead of next week's anniversary of "the Nanjing Incident," or the Nanjing Massacre, which it said is considered particularly sensitive ...

BANGKOK--Asian shares began the week mixed, with Tokyo’s benchmark falling nearly 2% on Monday after the release of data ...

Amid a wave of class closures due to a surge in influenza cases, many parents are facing anxious times with the long winter ...

After 40 years, the critically acclaimed film “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” finally got a screening in Japan, at the ...

More than half of the evacuees fled in cars during the tsunami warning after the July earthquake off the Kamchatka Peninsula, ...

The ruling coalition partners on Dec. 1 agreed to push plans to reduce the number of Lower House seats by 10 percent, ...

A staff member of a Hello Work labor services office in Tokyo impersonated a job seeker and won several employment offers in ...

Since almost no one can work their entire lives, those who are young now will someday become old and become increasingly ...