Students and other applicants sitting university entrance exams in north Japan next year are likely to have difficulty ...

Japan has often prided itself on its orderly, low-crime society, but cracks in that image are widening amid rising car thefts ...

In essence, "hate marketing" is a strategy that leverages emotions of hostility to build market momentum. Ulaken names ...

Japan has seen a series of judicial decisions criticizing insufficiencies in the protection of rights of same-sex couples.

In the 1980s and 1990s, many foreign workers came to Japan because the economy was strong and there were not enough Japanese ...

It was in late 1955 that Donald Keene, a scholar of Japanese literature, first traveled through Japan's Tohoku region ...

Japan and South Korea are arranging for President Lee Jae Myung to visit Japan in mid-January for summit talks with Prime ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Head coach Eddie Jones says Japan will aim to be "the team that everyone wants to watch" at the 2027 Rugby ...

TOKYO (AP) -- The pledge by Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to "work, work, work, work and work" for her country has ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education presented draft guidelines for dealing with unreasonable guardians -- commonly ...

The World Exposition in Osaka is estimated to have generated an economic ripple effect of 3.05 trillion yen ($19.6 billion), ...

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