About 35.4% of people in Japan who changed jobs to join a small- or mid-size firm saw a more than 10% pay raise from their ...

The Hyogo Prefectural Assembly's special committee investigating power harassment and other allegations against Hyogo Gov.

For over 20 years, a social activist Catholic church group in Osaka has been helping refugees and children with foreign roots ...

President Donald Trump is granting a one-month exemption on his stiff new tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada for U.S.

Thirty-two original paintings by renowned children's book illustrator Chihiro Iwasaki (1918-1974) have been discovered, with ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) on March 4 announced it will begin developing the latest E10 Series of the Tohoku Shinkansen ...

The Osaka Municipal Government and Osaka Prefectural Government received applications for the free invites from 349,675 ...

A 108-year-old woman in this eastern Japan town has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest barber.

A Japanese court on Wednesday rejected a request to halt the operation of a nuclear reactor run by Shikoku Electric Power Co.

Kawazu zakura is a variety of cherry blossoms that bloom early. This year, they flowered later than normal, but are now in ...

Is the United States prepared to abandon its ally that it has protected? Such a policy shift risks sowing deep mistrust.

A 28-year-old man has appealed a Japanese court ruling sentencing him to life in prison for sexually assaulting 10 elementary ...