Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain which is still a staple even though total consumption has fallen over the ...

The Main Building of the National Diet Library is seen in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward in 2022. (Mainichi/Naoki Watanabe) The Mainichi Shimbun answers some questions readers may have about the National ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some questions readers may have about the National Diet Library, where ruling and opposition party executives reportedly ･･･ ...

Since Japan’s Supreme Court in a 2015 decision sent the question of separate surnames back to the National Diet, the LDP has prevented legislation from reaching the parliamentary floor.

On March 31, Japan’s National Diet enacted a budget bill for fiscal year of 2025 with a majority vote of the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Komeito, with the support ...

Japanese governments have proposed policies to reverse this ... Although the LDP remains the largest party in the National Diet, with Ishiba as its leader, the party lost 56 seats in October 2024, ...

This scandal is rocking Japan: As a “souvenir” for getting elected for the first time to the Japanese diet, or parliament ... residence,” according to one of Japan’s leading national dailies, Asahi ...

It’s a familiar origin story for those who have come to defy the typical Japanese diet by giving up animal products. “In terms of the vegan movement, I think we’re maybe behind other countries.

Ishiba then called a general election in late October, where the ruling coalition of the LDP and its junior partner, Komeito, lost their majority in the lower house of the National Diet (Japan’s ...

The opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan's Jun Azumi, right, speaks after assuming the post of chairman of the House of Representatives Budget Committee, at the National Diet in ...

Still, the plan could be far from fruition, as Tamaki’s DPP currently holds only seven of 465 seats in Japan’s House of Representatives, also known as the lower house of the National Diet of ...

TOKYO -- Shigeru Ishiba, the new leader of Japan's ruling ... to deal with national security threats. Ishiba's victory over opposition party leaders in the legislature, the Diet, was assured ...