Up to 67.6 percent of high school students do not know what “sexual consent” means or have heard the term but cannot explain it, a survey showed April 14.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Monday that U.S. tariffs have the potential to disrupt the global economic order, ...

Five high courts have ruled as unconstitutional provisions of the Civil Law and Family Register Law that do not allow ...

Japanese avant-garde artist Taro Okamoto (1911-1996) transferred from one elementary school to another, attending four in ...

With the price of rice skyrocketing, sake breweries are being left high and dry, struggling to procure raw ingredients as ...

The humble rice ball, eaten in Japan for thousands of years, is seemingly more popular now than ever, with specialty ...

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the ...

OSAKA--Osaka Kansai Expo 2025 kicked off April 12 with a spectacular opening ceremony in the presence of Emperor Naruhito, ...

Ibaraki Governor Kazuhiko Oigawa brought a powerful recruiting pitch with him last year when he flew to India.

Did you enjoy the view today? The exit is this way,” the voice echoed through an elevator lobby on the observation deck in ...

After a three-and-a-half-hour interrogation, police officers wore down a 12-year-old girl and got her to “confess” to ...

NAHA--A joint patrol involving Okinawa prefectural police and the U.S. military is to be mounted in the entertainment ...