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

Police were informed of an explosion at a park in northern Tokyo on Friday, investigative sources said, though no injuries ...

The U.S. dollar surged to the upper 148 yen range Friday morning in New York, a level not seen since mid-August, as ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...