This is the final installment in a series of articles that examines the challenges faced by the nation’s election system, ...

Soaring rice prices and increased consumer frugality are driving changes in dining habits, including adding glutinous barley ...

Two men were injured after being attacked at a subway station in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, on Wednesday evening, according to ...

ROME – As the cardinals walk into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday evening to open the papal conclave, they’ll chant the ...

KDDI Corp. has started a service for the direct connection of smartphones with the Starlink satellite network of SpaceX of ...

The government plans to enhance its surveying and research activities on remote border islands using lasers to analyze ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday permitted Donald Trump’s administration to implement his ban on transgender personnel in ...

Japan’s Nikkei share average edged lower on Wednesday, snapping a seven-session winning streak by the tiniest of margins, as ...

One of the few remaining pro-democratic parties in Hong Kong has been forced to decide to disband. The “high degree of ...

Former U.S. Assistant Trade Representative Michael Beeman said in an interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun that Japan should ...

The Trump administration earlier this year urged the Ukrainian government to accept an unspecified number of U.S. deportees ...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that three hostages held by Hamas in Gaza have died, leaving only 21 believed to be still ...