The Niigata City Board of Education is starting to serve school lunch to every student at all municipal junior high schools ...

What stood out for Japan was the low level of satisfaction with quality of life. Only 13% of Japanese pollees answered that ...

The spate of high court rulings in Japan that homosexual individuals being disallowed from having their partnerships legally ...

A spotted seal was born at Marinepia Nihonkai, an aquarium in the city of Niigata, on April 4. The baby seal is a female and ...

The head of Japan's junior coalition partner said Friday he does not rule out anything to support the economy, hit by rising ...

Lightning struck a school field in Nara on the evening of April 10, sending six students to hospital, including one in ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday renewed his complaint that the decades-old U.S.-Japan security treaty is ...

Tokyo stocks ended Friday morning down over 4 percent after the Nikkei briefly shed nearly 2,000 points, as shares were sold ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday instructed his close aide Ryosei Akazawa to conduct upcoming tariff negotiations with ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will hold one-on-one debates with opposition leaders from 3 p.m. on April 23 at the parliament, ...

The top executive of Fast Retailing Co., the operator of the Uniqlo clothing chain, said Thursday that U.S. President Donald ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya plans to deliver a speech at a preparatory session for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation ...