A labor union of nurses and other staff at medical institutions under Japan's National Hospital Organization staged a ...

Gunma Prefecture was named the most popular relocation destination for the first time in 2024 in a survey conducted by a ...

Nippon Professional Baseball said Thursday that an additional 14 players and staff from seven clubs have been involved in ...

The number of children born in Japan in 2024 fell from a year earlier to 720,988, marking the ninth consecutive year of ...

A full day after wildfires broke out in this northeastern Japan city, residents on Feb. 27 could not find any signs of relief ...

Japan's ruling bloc on Friday submitted to parliament a revised fiscal 2025 draft budget, with the minority government hoping ...

Japan's ruling parties have decided to raise the annual income threshold for taxation -- referred to as the "1.03 million yen ...

Three teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of unauthorized access into the systems of Rakuten Group Inc.'s mobile ...

TOKYO -- Japan's intense spring pollen season is expected to ramp up from the end of February.

South Korean police have asked a Japanese woman to turn herself in to the authorities for allegedly forcibly kissing Jin, a ...

The wakame seaweed harvest has started in the sea near Akita Prefecture and other areas. On February 23, a harvesting event ...

Tokyo stocks tumbled Friday, with the key Nikkei index losing nearly 3 percent to end at a five-month low as a wide range of ...