For a long time, the victories and defeats in electoral districts where only one seat was up for re-election have determined ...

Nippon Steel Corp.’s acquisition of U. S. Steel required nerves of steel, which Eiji Hashimoto, the company’s chairman and ...

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

Around 2 million more voters have cast early ballots for the July 20 Upper House election that is widely expected to deal a ...

HIROSHIMA—The city of Hiroshima opened the underground ossuary of the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound here to the media for the ...

Authorities in Cambodia continued their stepped-up campaign against online scam centers, arresting at least 500 suspects in ...

Telecom giant Softbank Corp. announced it will begin trials of a telecommunications system that operates closer to Earth than ...

TOKYO--Japanese were voting Sunday for seats in the smaller of Japan's two parliamentary houses in a key election with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and his ruling coalition facing a possible defeat ...

SENDAI—Sendai locals Keisuke Saito and Junko Abe each found and consumed 100 different fish species in their quest to gain ...

KOBE—Ouka Nakanishi was 5 years old when she first saw someone’s face transform during Nankinmachi’s Lunar New Year festival.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces an increasingly uphill battle in Sunday’s upper house election, and a loss could worsen political instability at a time of daunting challenges, such as ...

Decontaminated but slightly radioactive soil from Fukushima was delivered Saturday to the Japanese prime minister's office to ...