Party leaders made their final appeals to voters on Saturday, the final day of campaigning for Sunday’s House of Councillors ...

Political parties in Japan are intensifying debates over the acceptance of foreign workers as the issue emerged as a main ...

Panasonic Holdings Corp. has decided to postpone the start of full operations of its newly built U.S. electric vehicle ...

The DNA of a bear killed on Friday matches that of the bear that killed a 52-year-old newspaper deliveryman in a residential ...

Kansai Electric Power Co. has formulated its policy of resuming geological surveys to build a nuclear reactor and replace ...

A temple in Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, earlier this month provided a South Korean temple with 3D image data of a Buddhist ...

A South Korean special prosecutor’s team raided the headquarters of the Unification Church, formally called the Family ...

Silk farmers are busy collecting and shipping silkworm cocoons in Seiyo, Ehime Prefecture, which was once one of the leading ...

Ichika Kajimoto became the first-ever Japanese to capture a world title in open water swimming, taking the gold in the ...

The Emperor, the Empress and their daughter Princess Aiko arrived at the Nasu Imperial Villa in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, for ...

A musician in Osaka is opening up a new field in music by transforming gourds into electronic instruments and flutes, and ...

The innovative endeavor with the textile ink jet printer “FOREARTH” by KYOCERA Document Solutions is gathering attention as ...