Japan’s October 2024 general election ended in a brutal takedown for the LDP. Having lost the majority it held since 2012, ...

Tokyo, Oct. 31 (Jiji Press)--Toyota Motor Corp. and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. agreed Thursday to develop a driver ...

Many Japanese cinema fans will already know Kawai Yūmi thanks to her breakthrough leading roles of the last two years. But the same might not be said of Yamanaka Yōko, the director of the 2024 ...

The 2024 Paris Games provided athletic thrills to spectators, but some also took the event as a chance to heap abuse on the athletes online. A look at the problem of social-media-based abuse and ...

A Japanese survey found that 65% of working women supported the right to maintain separate surnames after marriage, while just 5% opposed it. The women’s job placement website Onna no Tenshoku ...

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)--Japan's 10 major power utilities said Wednesday that they will raise their electricity rates for an average household by 513-650 yen in November from the previous ...

Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)--Keiichi Ishii plans to step down as leader of Komeito, the junior partner in Japan's ruling coalition, after losing his seat in Sunday's election for the House of ...

At just after six in the evening of October 1, a group of men wearing blue security uniforms gather in front of a police box at Shibuya Center-gai, one of Tokyo’s busiest shopping streets.

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)--Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party plans to start a special parliamentary session on Nov. 11 to elect a prime minister following Sunday's general election, a ...

Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)--Japanese business leaders called for political reforms and efforts to regain trust from citizens Monday after the Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition lost its ...

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)--The combined global vehicle production of eight major Japanese automakers fell 6 pct from a year earlier to 11.87 million units in the April-September first half of ...