The Japanese government said it is responding to "crimes and nuisances committed by some foreigners and inappropriate use of ...

The government on Tuesday launched a new office within the Cabinet Secretariat tasked with addressing concerns about the ...

Following similar trends overseas, several Japanese political parties are announcing tougher regulations against foreigners ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Tuesday launched a new office within the Cabinet Secretariat tasked with reviewing and ...

Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya's xenophobic views, antisemitic remarks and emphasis on Japan’s ethnic purity have raised alarms ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba pledged Tuesday to set up a new command center within the Cabinet Secretariat early next week to addres ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party is the voters’ top choice for dealing with the main issues in the Upper House election, ...

A fringe far-right populist party Sanseito was one of the biggest winners in the weekend's upper house election, attracting ...

Japan's ruling coalition has lost its majority in the country's upper house, but Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has said he ...

TOKYO — Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces an increasingly uphill battle in Sunday’s upper house election, and a ...

In March 2025, Japan’s Immigration Services Agency announced that the country’s population of foreign residents reached a record-breaking 3.76 million as of June 2024 — a 10.5 per cent increase from ...