The number of people 65 and older who live alone continues to increase. This demographic is expected to make up more than 20 ...

OTSU—The centuries-old Otsu Festival, featuring parades of lavishly decorated floats adorned with mechanical puppets, will ...

Remember the mini-CD that was all rage in the 1990s when songs that dominated the charts in Japan all seemed to reach ...

Local emergency responders are under fire here for wrongfully declaring an elderly man dead while he was still alive and in ...

The Diet on Nov. 11 elected Shigeru Ishiba, president of the Liberal Democratic Party, as the 103rd prime minister of Japan ...

A food company is using a “forbidden tactic” in its bid to put its sausages, a traditional breakfast or bento item,” on ...

NAGOYA—After a deluge of criticism, the leader of the Conservative Party of Japan retracted his suggestion that subjecting ...

Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) canceled press credentials to the SMBC Japan Series for a TV network that aired World ...

Fruit processor and vendor Dole Japan Inc. refuses to let bananas that are unsellable go to waste. It turns them ...

After retaining the prime minister’s post on Nov. 11, Shigeru Ishiba pledged additional reforms of political funding ...

Tokyo officials were overjoyed after the Japanese capital was named the world’s best large city in a leading U.S. travel ...

KOBE--Former Hyogo Governor Motohiko Saito trails the front-runner in a gubernatorial election called after he left the post ...