Farm minister Eto Taku said on March 4 that he has told ministry staff to prepare to auction off an additional 60,000 to...

Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs has decided to recommend "shodo" calligraphy as a candidate for the UNESCO Intangibl...

Dignitaries from various fields including Princess Hisako of Takamado attended a farewell ceremony for the late media mo...

Ishiba Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan: I said (during the meeting) that we need to be careful not to draw the wrong le...

The Wakayama District Court sentenced a man who threw a homemade explosive toward then Prime Minister Kishida Fumio in 2...

The government approved on February 18 a new Strategic Energy Plan in which it calls for maximizing the utilization of n...

Japan Innovation Party co-leader Maehara Seiji / The current cap on public aid for households with children attending pr...

US President Donald Trump announced on February 14 that he is considering imposing tariffs on vehicles imported into the...

The Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism visited the unresolved sinkhole in Yashio, Saitama Prefectur...

Arimoto Akihiro, father of a Japanese victim of abduction by North Korea, has died at age 96.His daughter Keiko was take...