The Diet on Monday enacted revisions to the Public Offices Election Law and the Information Distribution Platform Law, ...

The number of children on waiting lists for “gakudo hoiku” after-school care facilities in Japan fell for the second straight ...

Claw machine games, where players operate a crane to win prizes, are experiencing a boom. With a wider variety of prizes and more locations to play, they’re now grabbing even those who previously had ...

The Disaster Management Agency, a new disaster response organization, is expected to be launched as early as November.

The brain mechanisms for rewriting the desire to approach or avoid a specific individual based on experience were revealed through experiments on mice by a team that included researchers from the ...

The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings held a briefing on Monday in Tokyo following its acquisition of a 70% stake in YTE Ltd. — an animation planning and production company under Yomiuri Telecasting Corp. — ...

Japanese flying car developer SkyDrive Inc. on Monday demonstrated a high-speed test flight of its electric aircraft over the Seto Inland Sea, western Japan, marking another step toward its goal of ...

The bill to establish a disaster management agency was passed and enacted on Monday by a majority vote of both the ruling and ...

An international conference to discuss the management of bluefin tuna stocks in the Pacific Ocean concluded on Tuesday without reaching an agreement on expanding catch quotas or other measures.

The medals that will be awarded to athletes at the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Para Games were unveiled by the organizing committee in Nagoya on Sunday.

Shimanto in Kochi Prefecture and Hamamatsu recorded temperatures above 38 C on Tuesday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

Police have arrested a 53-year-old man in the central Japan prefecture of Toyama for allegedly planning indiscriminate killing in Tokyo and preparing a knife for the potential rampage.