The Osaka chapter of Nippon Ishin (the Japan Innovation Party, or JIP) used government-funded party subsidies to pay a ...

A meeting of related ministers to discuss the Japanese government's policy on foreigners in the country was convened on Nov.

A Japanese high court on Thursday ruled the up to 3.13-fold vote weight disparity in the July upper house election was in a ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi pledged Thursday to "properly operate" Japan's foreign worker programs, ...

The Ito city assembly in Shizuoka Prefecture has passed a second no-confidence resolution against Mayor Maki Takubo over ...

A memorial service was held at Kotoku-in temple here on Nov. 4 to honor the victims of an earthquake that struck Myanmar in ...

Kyushu Railway Co. (JR Kyushu) has installed mirrors along the walls of escalators at JR Hakata Station in the city of ...

Japan's National Police Agency on Thursday amended rules to allow police officers to use rifles to cull bears, in response to ...

An increase in gray hair may be the result of a self-cleansing mechanism that removes damaged cells -- potentially serving as ...

Japan deployed troops Wednesday to help contain a surge of bear attacks that have terrorized residents in a mountainous ...

Saburo Kita's arrangements of paper flowers are a bittersweet reminder of the life he had hoped for before he was forcibly ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Thursday her government will consider cooperating with the United States in developing ...