Princess Kako, the younger daughter of Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko, is planning to visit Austria and Hungary in September in her first ...

District courts in Tokyo and seven other cities will introduce web meetings in February 2020 to connect judges and lawyers online to help make necessary ...

The government on Thursday started soliciting public comments over its plan to allow foreign nationals who come to Japan under the government-sponsored Technical Intern Training ...

A woman pleaded guilty Thursday to complicity in her husband’s assaults on their 10-year-old daughter, who died in January, as her trial began in a ...

A report released by a global union federation Wednesday demanded better conditions for laborers working on the construction of Tokyo Games facilities after several “alarming” ...

Japan on Thursday expressed concern about a tense standoff between Iran and the United States over an international nuclear deal and offered to work with ...

A few years ago, Chinese tourists engaged in bakugai (explosive shopping spree) in Tokyo’s Ginza district made headlines.But that seems to be a thing of ...

A 56-year-old man arrested on suspicion of placing knives on Prince Hisahito’s desk in Tokyo last month will undergo a psychiatric examination to see whether ...

A major red light district in Osaka will be closed during the Group of 20 summit in late June, the first such occurrence in 30 ...

A former official of the now-defunct Ryukyu government is disappointed that U.S. bases remain concentrated in Okinawa Prefecture despite a proposal made before its 1972 ...

The Supreme Court said Wednesday that, while the country’s lay judge system has been well received by the public since it was introduced 10 years ...

A 30-year-old teacher at a nursery school was seriously injured while protecting a group of children from a car that crashed into a park in ...

The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ruled that the owner of a car with a navigation system capable of receiving television signals should pay the ...

Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games announced plans Wednesday to launch robots from the anime “Mobile Suit Gundam” series into space aboard ...

A numerical goal will be set for the first time for reducing the number of people in Japan with dementia, with an eye to cutting ...

Osaka Mayor Ichiro Matsui, leader of Nippon Isshin no Kai, has reiterated his condemnation of recent remarks by a lawmaker in the party suggesting war ...

A government panel on Wednesday approved coverage of a new therapy to treat leukemia and other hematologic cancers, which currently costs ¥33.49 million ($305,000), under ...

Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan plans to travel to Japan in early June, making his first visit to the country since taking up the ...

A foreign worker at an unlicensed day care facility in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, has been reported for physical abuse against children while on duty and ...

The driver of a post office delivery van carrying dozens of parcels who went missing along with the van last week in Kyoto has still ...