Concerns about U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs led in part to the first meeting in 16 years between the Japanese prime minister and the leader of Rengo (Japan Trade Union Confederation).

Up to 67.6 percent of high school students do not know what “sexual consent” means or have heard the term but cannot explain it, a survey showed April 14.

With the price of rice skyrocketing, sake breweries are being left high and dry, struggling to procure raw ingredients as ...

NAGOYA—Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) plans to add luxurious, semi-private seating areas to the Tokaido Shinkansen by ...

A northern city plans to promote Niigata Prefecture’s many local specialties--including its snow--at the Osaka Kansai Expo ...

The humble rice ball, eaten in Japan for thousands of years, is seemingly more popular now than ever, with specialty ...

Japan proposed a security strategy concept to the United States that could substantially expand the geographical area where the Self-Defense Forces may be deployed to counter potential threats from ...

Takamori Saigo (1828-1877), the leader of the Satsuma Rebellion, launched an all-out assault on Kumamoto Castle that was being defended by the Imperial Japanese Army.

The once-accessible process of designing a custom home is turning into a luxury option as Japan's carpenters join the growing ...

"Niseko is too expensive" is a sentiment propagated by more than a few news articles and TV programs that zeroed in on ...

After a three-and-a-half-hour interrogation, police officers wore down a 12-year-old girl and got her to “confess” to ...

Five high courts have ruled as unconstitutional provisions of the Civil Law and Family Register Law that do not allow ...