An expert panel of Japan's welfare ministry on Monday broadly approved a draft revision to the reduction rate for basic welfare payments, following a Supreme Court ruling that found the government's ...

Japan's Princess Aiko left Tokyo International Airport at Haneda on Monday for her visit to Laos to mark 70 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Responding to the Lao government's ...

Just days after the conclusion of the 2025 APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi triggered controversy with her remarks during a parliament hearing on November 7. She ...

A cargo ship carrying plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel produced in France arrived at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear power plant in the central Japan prefecture of Fukui, ...

SWS Medical, a leading provider of blood purification solutions in China, is set to demonstrate its innovative products at MEDICA 2025 in Düsseldorf, Germany, from November 17 to 21 (Hall 11/E14). As ...

Japan's convenience store sector is undergoing a major shift, as store expansion slows amid limited room for rapid expansion at home and inbound tourism increasingly drives consumption. Lawson Inc. ai ...

Japanese and South Korean nonpartisan groups of lawmakers for bilateral friendship Sunday agreed to boost their countries' cooperation to a new height in all areas including politics, economy, society ...

Japanese private think tank Genron NPO has put off the announcement of the results of a Japan-China joint opinion poll, previously set for Monday, officials said Sunday. According to Genron NPO, its ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has drawn the ire of China by indicating the possibility that the Self-Defense Forces may be mobilized even without a direct attack on Japan in a possible Taiwan ...

A U.N. Human Rights Council group added 12 missing Japanese people not officially recognized as victims of North Korea's abductions to a list compiled to urge Pyongyang to confirm their safety, ...

A woman in her 40s was wounded in a knife attack by a man in Tokyo's busy Akasaka district Sunday morning, sources said. Around 10:30 a.m., police received an emergency call saying that a woman had be ...

China's Education Ministry on Sunday issued a notice urging the country's citizens to think carefully if they plan to study in Japan. The action is believed to be another retaliatory measure against J ...