Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Tuesday that the government will respond appropriately to excessive foreign exchange rate movements, including the yen's rapid depreciation. "We will take a ...

Japan's ruling camp and opposition party Komeito proposed Tuesday that the central and prefectural governments each bear half the cost of making elementary school meals free from April next year. The ...

Tomihiro Tanaka, Japan head of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, widely known as the Unification Church, will resign from the post, the organization said on its website Tuesday.

Two Democrats in the U.S. Congress urged President Donald Trump on Monday to support Japan in the face of China's escalating economic and military coercion against the U.S. ally. Beijing's actions "th ...

Hiroyuki Takahashi, chairman of the Japan Association of Travel Agents, has stressed the need for the country to avoid heavily depending on travel demand from one specific country. Growing tensions be ...

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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday expressed eagerness to advance legislation to give legal validity to the use of maiden names. Speaking before the Budget Committee of the House of ...

A power line connecting the northern Japan island of Hokkaido and the country's Honshu main island caught fire, Japanese industry minister Ryosei Akazawa said Tuesday. According to the power line ...

Osaka Gas Co. plans to sell 70,000 tons of liquefied natural gas a year as ship fuel through offshore supply by 2030, President Masataka Fujiwara said in a recent interview. The Japanese company will ...

Japan plans to create a ministerial post for intelligence-related matters as part of efforts to enhance its ability to collect and analyze domestic and foreign information, government officials said ...

The Japanese government on Tuesday disputed Beijing's insistence that the use of radar by Chinese military aircraft on Japanese fighter jets was a "normal measure" to ensure flight safety. "Even when ...

The most popular names given to babies born in Japan in 2025 were "Minato" and "So," written with the same kanji character, for boys, and "Sui" for girls, a survey by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co.