Tokyo Electric Power Co. filed an application with the government on Jan. 23 to raise electricity rates for households by an ...

A scandal at Mitsubishi Electric Corp. involving fraudulent testing dating to the 1980s has already turned up nearly 200 ...

Convenience store chain operators are now focusing on compact, unstaffed shops that emphasize quality as the number of their ...

All four presidential candidates of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan support legalizing same-sex marriage, a ...

Driven by the weak yen, Japan's economic output produced its lowest percentage on record in the global economy last year, ...

Phone fans in Japan don’t have to dig as deep into their pockets, with a new survey showing that they sell for about 20 ...

First-year high school students climbed to third place in reading comprehension in the latest global aptitude survey, a ...

SEOUL--North Korea has poured up to $1.6 billion (about 231.2 billion yen) into its nuclear development program over the last ...

Cyclists were involved in 23.3 percent of all traffic accidents in Japan in 2022, the highest rate on record, according to ...

A national academic achievement test and a simultaneously conducted survey revealed students tend to score lower on tests ...

Teachers and staff members are responsible for more than half of the incidents of harassment and other difficulties ...

Japan’s first local regulation requiring solar panel installations on new single-family homes took effect on April 1 in Tokyo ...