Japan confirms a second Japanese national has been detained in Iran and requests an early release

The 23-year-old Marine was charged with sexual assault resulting in injury to a woman in Okinawa Prefecture in May 2024.

Spending on TV, newspaper, magazine and radio ads in 2025 dipped 1.6% to ¥2,298 billion, down for the first time in two years.

Meanwhile, 30.0% hope to reduce their work hours, and 59.5% are satisfied with the status quo, according to the labor ministry survey.

The defense-tech giant is offering to hire locally and expand domestic supply chains for products it might deliver to the Japanese governmen...

The Trump administration boasts that its war on immigrants, which has included threats of imprisonment and incentives to “self-deport,” has...

Japan’s oil refiners, which source about 95% of their crude supply from the Middle East, are calling on the Japanese government to tap the s...

A note left after the terrorist attack at a government building cited "imperialists" as the target.

The figure jumped from 2,065 in the previous survey four years earlier, reflecting the country's worsening teacher shortage.

The alert is now at Level 3, the second highest in the ministry's four-tier system.

Japan gets more than 90% of its oil from the Middle East, leaving it vulnerable to the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz that’s prev...

The planned change, a first for state-run museums, will hike admission fees for nonresidents by March 2031.

Local police in Vietnam have also detained four Japanese individuals on suspicion of defrauding victims in Japan.

Japan will evacuate its nationals from four Middle East countries on chartered aircraft, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said Thursday, as the...

The push by UA Zensen, which represents members across the retail, restaurants, materials and service sectors, follows other labor groups’ a...