Calls for abolishing an environmental performance-based tax paid when a vehicle is purchased have pitted a major automobile ...

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. has begun discussions to increase its investment in U.S. securities giant Jefferies ...

The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan is working hard to secure cooperation from other opposition parties ahead of a ...

The Okinawa prefectural assembly on Thursday passed a bill to introduce an accommodation tax, which will be imposed on people ...

Three Vietnamese nationals were arrested Friday on suspicion of stealing over 100 kilograms of brand-name rice and other ...

Runways were closed at Niigata Airport after an Air Self-Defense Force plane deviated from the runway when landing on Friday ...

The Bank of Japan decided to keep its monetary policy unchanged at a two-day Policy Board meeting that ended Friday.

Iida Kasaten, a bespoke umbrella maker in Musashino, Tokyo, celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. The workshop is known ...

In the beginning of “ Says”(“Kugatsu to Shichigatsu no Shimai”), the first feature-length film directed by Ariane Labed, who ...

Marching with thousands of other protesters in Paris, hospital nurse Aya Touré put her finger on the pulse of many who took ...

An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 3.4 struck off the coast of the Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture at 9:10 a ...

ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show following comments he made about the killing of Charlie Kirk drew reactions from ...