The ruling coalition headed by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba suffered a bruising defeat in the Upper House election. Voters ...

A female sophomore at a prestigious private university in Tokyo was appalled by the fast pace and difficult lectures in ...

SENDAI—Following a spate of maulings, the Environment Ministry will set up at least 800 cameras by the end of July to count ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency called for vigilance across the Kanto region as the ninth typhoon of the season looked set to ...

MONTERREY, Mexico--Japan marked the 1,000th match in World Cup history with a commanding 4-0 win over Tunisia in Group F on Saturday, as Ayase Ueda scored twice to send the North Africans out. Hajime ...

MANILA—The United States, the United Kingdom and a dozen other Western and Asian countries reasserted on Sunday that China’s expansive claims in the South China Sea are illegal based on a 2016 ...

Prioritizing speed, the government is moving to lower the consumption tax on groceries to 1 percent—not the promised zero-percent rate—for a two-year period starting next April, officials said June 2.

A sophomore at Meiji University in Tokyo who is a big fan of the K-pop girl group Twice and mastered writing hangul in high ...

Annual deaths from COVID-19 continue to top 30,000 in Japan, even three years since the seriousness of the infectious disease was downgraded to the level of seasonal influenza. Elderly people are most ...

BOSTON--Big record companies are suing artificial intelligence song-generators Suno and Udio for copyright infringement, alleging that the AI music startups are exploiting the recorded works of ...

OSAKA—A fleet of electric-powered buses used to shuttle attendees during the Osaka Kansai Expo now function more as an eyesore than an emblem in a “graveyard” estimated to be worth billions of yen.

The average price of a new apartment in Tokyo’s 23 wards in fiscal 2025 topped 130 million yen ($827,000) for the first time, while surrounding areas also soared to record highs, a report showed. The ...