Teachers will be getting more pay and the promise of less notoriously excessive overtime work under a bill revising Japan's ...

Discussions between Japan's ruling and opposition parties over measures to secure the number of Imperial Family members have ...

Hundreds of people on June 9 welcomed the arrival of the sacred wood that will be used to rebuild a divine palace at Ise ...

The Bank of Japan is expected to leave interest rates unchanged at its policy meeting next week as it gauges the impact of ...

A Taiwanese vessel sailed near Japan's westernmost island within the country's exclusive economic zone for at least 17 hours ...

The hosting organization for the ongoing Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai established a task force on June 10 to respond to the ...

Industrial giant Hitachi Ltd.'s factory here held a memorial service on June 10 for workers who lost their lives during air ...

Global sales of Nintendo Co.'s Switch 2 portable gaming console blew by the 3.5-million-unit mark in just four days after its ...

A former student opened fire at a school in Austria's second-biggest city Tuesday, killing 10 people and wounding 12 others ...

A massive earthquake predicted to occur in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years could cause 1,466 trillion yen ($10 ...

Tokyo stocks rose Wednesday for a fourth consecutive day after the United States and China agreed on a framework believed to ...

A court ruling that ordered the Tokyo government and the state to compensate a company president and others for an unlawful ...