Japan racked up a 621 billion yen ($4.3 billion) trade deficit in July, as prices of imports surged, according to government ...

A growing number of restaurants nationwide are illegally expanding their dining areas onto public streets, creating tensions ...

Participants of the panel discussion in the Asahi World Forum 2024, “Protecting the Earth's Future―What You Can Do to Combat ...

Yukio Edano, former chief of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, said he intends to regain the presidency of the ...

BEIJING--Approvals for new coal-fired power plants in China dropped sharply in the first half of this year, according to an ...

Two days before the start of removal of debris from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on a trial basis, a facility here ...

KUMAMOTO—Teleworking and staggered work hours will be making a comeback at municipal and prefectural governments here, but ...

Former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has decided to run in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential ...

It has been about one month since I first saw a sign in the rice aisle of my local supermarket in Tokyo that said, “The rice ...

SAPPORO—The Supreme Court’s First Petty Bench rejected the appeals of both the Hokkaido prefectural government and a male ...

A rapid depreciation of Myanmar’s currency is pushing up the prices of essentials, including food and medicine, crippling ...

It has been 10 months since the current Israel-Hamas war began. We demand that the belligerents and mediators alike do their ...