The Yomiuri ShimbunA man looks at his student loan payment record on his mobile phone in Tokyo. By Sanae Nokura and Tomoyo ...

As a country with many volcanoes, Japan has experienced numerous large-scale eruptions. In modern times, however, there have been no cases in which the Tokyo metropolitan area or other large cities ...

Former yokozuna professional sumo grand champion Hakuho, now stablemaster Miyagino, will retire from the Japan Sumo ...

The tariff policies of U.S. President Donald Trump are shaking the world, causing major changes to the global economic order. As a leader in the business community, Keidanren (Japan Business ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba unveiled his intention to set up a council of relevant Cabinet ministers tasked with discussing ...

Karol Nawrocki, the conservative historian who won Poland’s presidential election, cultivated a tough-guy image during his ...

More than 30 Palestinians were killed and nearly 170 injured on Sunday in south Gaza near a food distribution site, the ...

The revised Penal Code took effect Sunday, introducing a new type of punishment called “confinement” that combines the ...

The government plans to encourage people to register their favorite municipalities outside of where they live under a new ...

‘Mizu uchiwa,’ or translucent paper fans, are in peak production for summer season in Gifu Prefecture.

“You’ve got about 4.8 million people on Medicaid right now nationwide who are able-bodied workers, young men, for example, ...

The summer tradition of ukai, or cormorant fishing, which has a 1,300-year history, started on the Kiso River in Inuyama, ...