Education minister Toshiko Abe has apologized for telling a Japanese Communist Party member during a committee meeting that ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced a 25% additional tariff on all imported automobiles -- a hardline protectionist ...

Prices of rice in Tokyo jumped around 90 percent in March from a year earlier, with the government's recent release of ...

Yuko Kawai, vice president of the Bank of Kochi, will be promoted to the top post, becoming the first woman to lead a ...

A closing ceremony was held on March 24 at Ryugasaki Municipal Omiya Elementary School in Ibaraki Prefecture, which will ...

Japan's Imperial Household Agency said Friday it will launch its official YouTube channel next month to showcase the ...

A 48-year-old woman in Fukuoka Prefecture was arrested March 27 for allegedly stealing some 160 items including sugar placed ...

Josh Weigensberg, a partner at the law firm Pryor Cashman, said that one question the Ghibli-style AI art raises is whether ...

Their choice to do so is seen as a violation of compulsory school attendance, since free schools are regarded as places for ...

Students from across Japan convened here March 26 to present a list of over 20,000 signatures imploring Japan to sign and ...

Japanese figure skating pair Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara clinched gold Thursday at the world championships in Boston, ...

The Tokyo District Court has ordered a local Chinese restaurant to pay some 70 million yen (about $464,000) in compensation ...