The primary balance, which excludes interest payments on public debt, is projected to remain in the red with a deficit of ...

Bonuses paid by major Japanese companies in winter 2024 averaged ¥891,460, rewriting an all-time high for the first time in ...

The fire follows the issuing of a dry weather advisory in southern Hiroshima after a long period without rain.

Terunofuji, the fifth Mongolian-born yokozuna after Asashoryu, Hakuho, Harumafuji and Kakuryu, will be the first yokozuna to ...

If successful, the ceasefire would halt fighting that has razed much of heavily urbanized Gaza and killed over 46,000 people.

The move comes amid rising criticism over the broadcaster’s handling of alleged sexual misconduct by former SMAP member ...

The venture is in part driven by cold calculation involving the biggest of numbers in terms of money and the smallest of ...

Hidekatsu Yajima, 72, is alleged to have underreported over ¥60 million ($386,000) of LDP assembly members’ income and ...

The penalties are part of a broader government plan to introduce active cyber defense, or preemptive action to prevent ...

Hyogo Prefecture is also calling on the central government to pick Kansai as the base of a new disaster relief agency ...

BOJ Gov. Kazuo Ueda reinforced his deputy’s message this week that his board will consider a rate hike at the meeting, ...

Applicants need to be Japanese nationals who are either enrolled in or set to enter a university or technical college in ...