Japan's Cabinet on Aug. 5 approved a policy to cut the consumption tax rate on food and beverages from 8% to 1%. However, ...

A research team has confirmed ground-surface displacement stretching about 33 kilometers along a fault zone after the ...

The administration of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, to begin with, lacks efforts to sit down and address nuclear disarmament ...

Typhoon Dolphin, a large and strong tropical storm and the 13th of the year, moved west on the morning of Aug. 7, bringing ...

Tomato growers in this quake-struck city, Japan's top tomato-producing area, face the prospect of being unable to grow their ...

Japan's household spending in June fell a real 3.3 percent from a year earlier, marking the seventh consecutive monthly drop, ...

A mother in the Japanese capital launched an online petition July 7 calling for sex offenders to be kept out of schools after ...

Far from her native Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan, a Japanese woman is helping revitalize a rural community in Vietna ...

Typhoon Dolphin moved over Japan's southern remote islands Friday, causing a main airport on Okinawa to close and grounding ...

A student shot several people at a high school outside Bangkok on Friday, killing at least six people and wounding severa ...

TOKYO -- The small Japanese opposition party Reiwa Shinsengumi decided Aug. 6 to change its name to Inochi no To, or "party ...

Tokyo stocks ended mixed Friday, as investors locked in profits from heavyweight technology shares, while bargain hunting in ...