Legislation aimed at expanding the use of pre-marriage family names to alleviate inconveniences in social activities is ...

Snow fell in central Tokyo on Friday, the season's first snowfall in the capital, the country's weather agency said.

Kochi University in this western Japan city has installed the first vending machine at a Japanese college that allows holders ...

The small town of Biei in Hokkaido made headlines in January last year when it cut down a row of photogenic white birch ...

The number of Muslims in Japan is growing. In 2024, there were about 420,000 Muslims in Japan, about 0.3% of the total ...

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Friday that she and U.S. President Donald Trump have agreed to work toward meeting ...

Two-time reigning overall champion Aoyama Gakuin University won the outbound route of the annual two-day Tokyo-Hakone ...

Some major Japanese department stores launched the year's first sales on Friday, attracting many shoppers with merchandise ...

A recent proposal by the World Badminton Federation could see the nature of the sport shift dramatically, with each ...

Japan's revised "equal pay for equal work" guidelines will require that nonregular workers who work continuously receive the ...

Japan aims to reduce clothes waste by 25 percent by fiscal 2030 compared with 10 years before to address the environmental ...

With Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks on Japan's potential involvement in a Taiwan emergency sparking tensions with ...