The number of people 65 and older who live alone continues to increase. This demographic is expected to make up more than 20 ...

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

OTSU—The centuries-old Otsu Festival, featuring parades of lavishly decorated floats adorned with mechanical puppets, will ...

The 29th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) opened on Nov. 11 in Baku, ...

Local emergency responders are under fire here for wrongfully declaring an elderly man dead while he was still alive and in ...

Remember the mini-CD that was all rage in the 1990s when songs that dominated the charts in Japan all seemed to reach ...

TOKYO--Japanese technology group SoftBank swung back to profitability in the July-September quarter, boosted by positive ...

Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) canceled press credentials to the SMBC Japan Series for a TV network that aired World ...

A food company is using a “forbidden tactic” in its bid to put its sausages, a traditional breakfast or bento item,” on ...

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

Fruit processor and vendor Dole Japan Inc. refuses to let bananas that are unsellable go to waste. It turns them ...

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