Japan's education ministry proposed on July 8 setting annual class hours for a new junior high school subject, ...

Major Japanese snack maker Calbee Inc. said Thursday it will gradually resume full-color printing for the packaging of eight ...

The Gunma Prefectural Government is set to alter the application system for its "Gunma Passport" booklet from a first-come, ...

Internationally renowned Japanese author Haruki Murakami released on Friday his first novel in around three years, a ...

Private rooms scheduled to be adopted on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines this fall with the introduction of a new ...

The yield on Japan's benchmark 10-year government bond briefly hit 2.900 percent Thursday afternoon for the first time since ...

The amount Japanese people are planning to spend on average for their summer holidays this year fell for the first time in ...

July 8 marked four years since former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatally gunned down during a House of ...

A star festival themed tunnel decorated with colorful weather dolls has been set up at Tanashi Jinja shrine in the western ...

President Donald Trump flew partway home from a NATO summit in Turkey on an old baby blue Air Force One plane instead of the ...

South Korea's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a seven-year prison sentence for former President Yoon Suk Yeol in the first ...

The yield on Japan's benchmark 10-year government bond briefly rose to 2.900 percent on Thursday, its highest level since ...