The Diet on Nov. 11 elected Shigeru Ishiba, president of the Liberal Democratic Party, as the 103rd prime minister of Japan ...

More than 10 percent of voters want four of six Supreme Court justices removed from the bench, according to a national review ...

NAGOYA—After a deluge of criticism, the leader of the Conservative Party of Japan retracted his suggestion that subjecting ...

KOBE--Former Hyogo Governor Motohiko Saito trails the front-runner in a gubernatorial election called after he left the post ...

Dubbed the “Venice of the East” on social media and elsewhere, the city is not in danger of sinking but is working to ...

The economy ministry has lifted its restrictive bathroom policy for a transgender employee in her 50s, telling her on Nov. 8 ...

Search efforts are under way after a crew member of a Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper went missing when the vessel ...

Japanese consumers don’t have to hear about the increasing popularity of the Shine Muscat through the grapevine, but can see it in the clusters of yellow-green grapes packing produce sections.

The leader of the opposition Democratic Party for the People on Nov. 11 admitted to the report of infidelity posted on an internet tabloid news site and apologized for his behavior.

Minako Ishida spent two years frequenting a white mansion suspended over the sea, eager to grasp just what about the property enthralled the famous connoisseur who now owns it.

Man is compared to a thinking reed, “ashi” in Japanese while the humble octopus is often likened to thinking legs, also “ashi ...

Fishing operations are finally back to normal, well almost, at the port of Wajima in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, following ...