Japan recognizes that it needs foreign nationals. Foreign residents bring energy and innovation to this country, and they ...

Japan is seeing a record number of deaths from bear attacks, with 13 people killed since April. Last month, a man was found ...

The umbrella body for labor unions across the country will aim to achieve the levels of pay hikes attained this year to ...

Minister of Defense Shinjiro Koizumi garnered attention this past weekend when he visited Yonaguni — Japan’s southwesternmost ...

China is leveraging the Global Governance Initiative to expand its influence in the U.N. and Global South as U.S.

While the PBOC can’t shake the global economy in quite the same way, and doesn’t have the same independence as the Fed, its ...

The Cabinet has approved a ¥18.3 trillion extra budget to fund the largest round of fresh spending in a stimulus package ...

The government is considering raising the fee for permanent residency to as high as ¥300,000 and that for changing or ...

Hokkaido Gov. Naomichi Suzuki on Friday announced his support for a planned restart of the No. 3 reactor at Hokkaido Electric ...

The two frontrunners in the Nov. 30 election both pledge to sever ties with Beijing and reestablish them with Taipei.

Nearly 3 million people have been affected by floods in southern Thailand, while in Indonesia power outages and damaged ...

The bill's supplementary clause urges the central government to work out concrete measures to make up for an estimated ...