Calls for abolishing an environmental performance-based tax paid when a vehicle is purchased have pitted a major automobile ...

Fishing lines and other plastic waste discarded along Japan’s coastlines and riverbanks are entangling, injuring and causing ...

Jiro Ono, the founder of sushi restaurant Sukiyabashi Jiro Honten in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, was presented with an Edo kiriko glass ...

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. has begun discussions to increase its investment in U.S. securities giant Jefferies ...

The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan is working hard to secure cooperation from other opposition parties ahead of a ...

The Liberal Democratic Party’s slogan for the presidential election, “#Change, LDP — Speak about Japan’s future!” was ...

An expert panel of the Defense Ministry suggested in a report finalized Friday that exporting defense equipment without ...

Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, 64, held a press conference at the Diet on Friday afternoon and formally ...

The Okinawa prefectural assembly on Thursday passed a bill to introduce an accommodation tax, which will be imposed on people ...

Runways were closed at Niigata Airport after an Air Self-Defense Force plane deviated from the runway when landing on Friday ...

Two senior lawmakers are drawing attention ahead of the Liberal Democratic Party leadership race — Taro Aso, the party’s ...

Three typhoons formed in succession in the seas south of Japan on Thursday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.