The maximum vote-value disparity between House of Councilors prefectural constituencies has risen to 3.126 times for the July ...

Tokyo and Kyoto are top cities for “noctourism,” or nighttime tourism, among more than 100 major cities worldwide, according ...

A flurry of fast-moving events over the past week have thrown Japan’s tariff negotiations with the United States into ...

Defections across the land border are relatively rare, as the area is densely forested, heavily mined and monitored by ...

In speeches on the second day of the official campaign period for the Upper House election, party leaders focused on issues ...

In addition to granting the government a golden share and some voting rights, companies that receive government aid will also ...

The pension fund incurred losses on all four of its asset classes in the January-March period, the first time this has ...

The Tokyo District Court on Friday sentenced a former employee of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank to two years in prison, ...

Residents of the Tokara Islands in the village of Toshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, began evacuating Friday morning following a ...

From a model of the Grand Ring you can walk through to a futuristic city design, the architect’s exhibition at Mori Art ...

Japan defender Takehiro Tomiyasu is leaving Arsenal by mutual agreement after playing only six minutes last season due to a ...

This marks the first time that Japanese living in Taiwan could vote at polling stations on the self-governed island.