July 3, marks the official start of campaigning for the House of Councillors election. Can the sense of stagnation in ...

Official campaigning began Thursday in Japan for the July 20 House of Councillors election, a crucial battle for Prime ...

Lawmakers in the upper house of the country's bicameral legislature serve six-year terms. Elections are held every three ...

The introduction of a selective separate surname system for married couples in Japan, which would allow them to choose ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba dissolved the House of Representatives. The plenary session of the House of Representatives convened at 4 p.m. today was convened by the chairman of the ...

All 465 members of Japan's House of Representatives will be removed from their seats. The dissolution of the House of Representatives is the shortest period in history, eight days after Prime ...

Japan's House of Representatives passed Tuesday a bill to tighten regulations on illegal online gambling by prohibiting websites from guiding users to casino sites. The revision to a law to tackle ...

TOKYO: The House of Representatives passed Friday (May 30) a pension reform-related bill along with a draft amendment to it that includes a supplementary provision about bolstering the basic ...

Japan's House of Representatives Speaker Fukushiro Nukaga, visited the Indian Embassy in Tokyo and signed the condolence book opened in memory of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who passed ...

The House of Representatives, Japan's lower chamber of parliament, passed a bill on Thursday to promote the development of artificial intelligence technology and take steps to mitigate its risks.