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The opposition Democratic Party, which has a majority in parliament, needs at least eight ruling party lawmakers to back the bill in order f...

Ryo Takebayashi’s documentary profiles the residents of a group home, but shies away from making emphatic statements about the circumstances...

Ema Ryan Yamazaki’s documentary is a candid and heartfelt glimpse of elementary school in Tokyo.

The plan would mark the railway operator's first full-fledged fare hike since its creation through the Japanese National Railways' privatiza...

"There is no global strategy without the U.S.," Takahiro Mori, the Japanese company's vice chairman, said this week.

Japan and the U.S. aim to confirm their intention to further beef up their alliance, Japanese government sources said.

The firm has installed a system to generate power using green hydrogen, produced without causing carbon dioxide emissions.

Trump's pick of Kash Patel to lead the FBI brought into sharper focus the president-elect's seriousness about striking back at those he beli...

Landslides, a ship dragging its anchor, military skirmishes and sabotage can all damage cables.

Pete Hegseth's nomination has run into trouble over allegations about his personal and professional life.

An internal committee judged Tamaki’s conduct as having contravened the party’s ethics regulations and damaged its honor and trust.

Generic drugs made up 62.1% of the market by value in September, with a government target of 65% by fiscal 2029 to cut medical costs.

Tokyo stocks opened flat and the yen was little changed from a day earlier, when the South Korean president declared martial law in a late-n...

The BOJ owned ¥8.03 trillion of the bonds due in March 2032 as of Nov. 29, down from ¥8.23 trillion on Nov. 20.

Ikeda, now a corporate worker, has completed the rare feat of winning back-to-back amateur "yokozuna" titles.

Glimpses of a night that tested the strength of democracy in South Korea.

He also helped decide how to distribute donations made to the Japanese Red Cross Society and the Central Community Chest of Japan after the...

The streaming firm's Japanese-language programming is grabbing attention in the growing market.

Even the president's party appears to support moves against him after his unexpected move triggered South Korea’s biggest political crisis i...

The company has dismissed a Shanghai-based copper trader after finding that he had made unauthorized trades with local companies.

The Cultural Affairs Agency's plan will have AI scour the web for sites pirating manga books and anime, using an image and text detection sy...

The decision by WADA’s leaders to keep its own investigators in the dark raises new questions about WADA's response to possible doping by Ch...

The CEO's departure is also an opportunity for suitors to take another look at acquiring some or all of Intel.

Municipalities are introducing mandatory reporting requirements for owners of large numbers of pets as well as fines for non-compliance.

The Facebook parent is asking developers to submit proposals to deliver 1 to 4 gigawatts of reactor capacity, starting in the early 2030s.