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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

The Yosakoi Soran Festival, held in early summer in the city of Sapporo, Hokkaido, began on June 4. The festival features ...

The Japanese parliament enacted Wednesday a bill to turn a government advisory body of scientists into a corporate entity, a ...