Japan's ancient city of Kyoto has officially announced it will raise the cap on its accommodation tax tenfold to 10,000 yen, ...

The secretary general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has pointed out the importance of solving pending issues and ...

Corporate bankruptcies in Japan rose for the third straight year in 2024. It is the highest number since 2013. Rising prices ...

Tokyo's benchmark stock index slid more than 2 percent at one stage on Tuesday as investors sold off semiconductor-related ...

A US media report says the Chinese government is considering whether the US operations of social media platform TikTok should ...

US President Joe Biden has delivered a foreign policy speech ahead of the expiration of his term early next week. He stressed ...

An NHK opinion poll shows that the approval rate for Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru's Cabinet stands at 39 percent, up 1 percentage point from the previous month. The disapproval rate is up 2 points to ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol did not attend the first hearing of his impeachment trial, resulting in an adjournment of the Constitutional Court in roughly four minutes.

The US government has proposed new rules on the export of advanced computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence.

A magnitude 6.9 quake struck off Miyazaki Prefecture, southern Japan, on Monday evening local time. Tsunami have already ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi and South Korea's Acting President Choi Sang-mok have affirmed their governments will continue to work closely together and make efforts to develop their ...

The European flat oyster, introduced to Japan over 70 years ago, was thought to have vanished. However, it was recently rediscovered in waters off Tohoku, a region in northeast Japan which was ...