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

Japan's government will propose a $65 billion plan to boost its chip industry with subsidies and other financial assistance ...

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

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

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

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

The welfare ministry is reviewing the eligibility requirements and calculation methods for pension lump-sum withdrawal ...

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

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

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

FUKUSHIMA—Fukushima Governor Masao Uchibori doesn't know why U.S. President-elect Donald Trump believes the Fukushima No. 1 ...

After retaining the prime minister’s post on Nov. 11, Shigeru Ishiba pledged additional reforms of political funding ...