OSAKA -- Japan's Ministry of Finance on Oct. 8 released approximately 25,000 pages of records related to the falsification of official documents concerning the sale of state-owned land to the ...

SUITA, Osaka -- Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi met reporters on Oct. 7 with his wife, whom he calls his "comrade" in research, a day after being named co-winner of this year's Nobel Prize in ...

The new executive lineup of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has been announced. Although party President Sanae Takaichi had emphasized a united fro ...

In 2023, there was a major shift in Japan's media landscape. Weekday internet usage time surpassed television for the first time acro ...

Japan's education ministry proposed Wednesday the establishment of five-year integrated university programs combining undergraduate a ...

Over 10,000 invasive fire ants along with at least 8,000 eggs, larvae and pupae were found at the Port of Tokyo's Aomi container terminal, th ...

A hacker group has claimed responsibility for last week's cyberattack on Japanese beverage giant Asahi Group Holdings Ltd., saying it ...

The controversial remarks came soon after Takaichi was elected president of the Liberal Democratic Party on Saturday, defeating farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi in a runoff. Japan has been struggling ...

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) -- Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, ...

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum t ...

Kodomo no Ibasho Support Osaka, located in Osaka's Nishinari Ward, was launched in April 2020 as part of a national initiative to use dormant funds. It supplies food to about 300 children's cafeterias ...

The autumn festival of Munakata Taisha shrine in the city of Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, began on October 1. About 100 boats gallantly sailed from t ...