Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. restarted the No. 6 reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture for the first time in about 14 years. This was the first ...

All major parties running in the House of Representatives election scheduled for Feb. 8 have pledged to cut the consumption tax rate.

A man was detained after being found brandishing what appeared to be scissors on a train on the JR Saikyo Line in Tokyo on Friday afternoon, police said.