A team of researchers from institutions including the Jikei University School of Medicine in the Japanese capital on Oct. 4 ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly on Friday approved a draft ordinance to prevent customers from abusing workers in a first for ...

The parents of a Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) member who killed himself in 2015 due to harassment by an instructor have ...

TOKYO -- Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba told reporters on Oct. 3 that he must "sincerely accept" the fact that approval ...

The governor of Ibaraki Prefecture stressed the need to discuss the impact of prefectural high schools' numbered names on Oct ...

A wage hike alone is not enough to secure workers for Japan's education system. Further strategies to lower their workloads ...

The following is the gist of a policy speech delivered by new Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in parliament on Friday.

Israel carried out a series of massive airstrikes overnight in southern suburbs of Beirut and another that cut off the main ...

On a brisk late September morning in the heart of Chablis wine country, grape pickers haul large and heavy buckets over th ...

A crane game called "grape catcher" is gaining attention at a tourist farm in the city of Mimasaka, Okayama Prefecture. The ...

The transport ministry said it will check Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan for unexploded bombs from World War II after ...

Tokyo stocks ended higher Friday as energy-related shares were boosted by surging oil prices, but advances were limited amid ...