Reducing the number of Diet seats has been a major topic in policy talks between the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the ...

Franmil Reyes went 3 for 4 with a pair of two-run home runs as the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters stayed alive in the Pacific ...

The prefectural government of Fukushima has held an event at a Japanese restaurant in New York to promote sake, “shochu” ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. has announced that it will consider decommissioning the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture as part of ...

Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama overcame the so-called 1955 system, in which conservatives and reformists were locked in a fierce rivalry, while he ran the government around the time of the ...

China’s second-highest ranking general and eight other senior officials have been expelled from the ruling Communist Party ...

The Japanese and Malaysian governments signed on Friday a memorandum for jointly promoting carbon capture and storage (CCS).

Policy discussions to form a coalition entered the second day on Friday between the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan ...

Visitors to Aoshima Island, a tourist destination in Miyazaki City, can now enjoy special nighttime attractions for a limited ...

To promote safe and proper use of electric scooters, Osaka prefectural police officers wearing helmets have been ...

Tohoku Electric Power Co. said Friday it will likely shut down the No. 2 reactor at the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi ...

Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi is highly likely to become the next prime minister after the Japan ...