A research team led by the Tokyo University of Science and the National Institutes of Natural Sciences has discovered a new ...

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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government is considering a plan to temporarily cut the consumption tax on food items from 8% ...

Japan's transport ministry has notified airlines that it will ban the use of power banks on airplanes from April after a ...

A fire broke out in a shopping area near Osaka Station in western Japan on Wednesday, leaving a worker at a Japanese skewered ...

A new supermajority in the powerful House of Representatives may embolden Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to pursue amending Japan's po ...

Sanae Takaichi was reelected as Japan's prime minister in parliament on Wednesday as the Diet convened a special session ...

The government of Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, plans to introduce a lodging tax of 150 yen (about $1) per person per ...

Many companies in Japan are relaxing their dress codes, allowing employees to express themselves through different hair colors, sneakers and ...

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve confirmed it had conducted a "rate check" on the dollar-yen pair in late January, a move typically thought to precede a market intervention, according to ...

The landslide victory achieved by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the recent House of Representatives election in Japan was strongly influenced ...

Sanae Takaichi is set to be reelected as Japan's prime minister in a parliamentary vote on Wednesday as the Diet convenes a special se ...