Former farm minister Taku Eto is expected to be reappointed to that post to replace Yasuhiro Kozato, who lost his seat in the ...

Support for constitutional amendment among newly elected Lower House members has dropped to 67 percent, the lowest level ...

The Tokyo Stock Exchange extended its daily trading hours by a half-hour for the first extension in 70 years to better deal ...

The approval rate of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s Cabinet plummeted after the Lower House election, but more than 60 ...

YOKOHAMA—The Yokohama DeNA BayStars completed a remarkable playoff run by trouncing the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks 11-2 on Nov. 3 ...

KOBE—An artisanal soap shop here is catering to its loyal customers throughout the country with handmade products, crafted ...

Residents here are voting online to determine the retirement allowance for the city mayor, who asked the public to decide how ...

The debate over the Category 3 system of the National Pension, a public pension system all people with an address in Japan ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba plans to appoint Hiromasa Nakano as new land minister, thereby keeping a member of junior ...

Mizuma Railway is operating a “digital art” train until Dec. 1 that treats passengers to projection mapping during the ...

TOTTORI--Cyclists can now board trains on the JR Sanin Line with their unbagged and unfolded bicycles for journeys between ...

Japan launched its fourth H-3 rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Nov. 4 and released the government’s X-band defense communications satellite Kirameki-3 into orbit.