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.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party is struggling to gauge the distance it should take with Komeito, its former ruling coalition partner in the upcoming House of Representatives election. Komeito has ...

The House of Representatives was dissolved on Friday, setting the stage for a Feb. 8 lower house election to seek a public mandate for the administration of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

Ruling and opposition parties will fight an unprecedentedly short election campaign that will officially begin Tuesday. The House of Representatives was dissolved Friday, and a general election will ...

The Bank of Japan retained its hawkish inflation forecasts on Friday after keeping policy steady, signaling its conviction that a moderate economic recovery justifies raising still-low borrowing costs ...

Japanese film “Kokuho” has been nominated for the makeup and hairstyling category in the 98th Academy Awards, it was ...

The central government and the Tokyo metropolitan government have agreed to launch a council aimed at strengthening ...

Powered by strong consumer spending, the U.S. economy grew at the fastest pace in two years from July through September, the ...

The lunch orders of two top Go players drew attention when Kisei title holder Ryo Ichiriki and challenger Toramaru Shibano took a break during their match in Honolulu on Thursday.

Emmanuel Macron’s aviator sunglasses drove the shares of their maker, iVision Tech IVN.MI, almost 28% higher on Thursday ...