Japan should possess nuclear weapons, given the severe surrounding security environment and the questionable reliability of ...

WASHINGTON--TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, said Thursday it signed binding agreements with three major investors to form ...

HELSINKI--Finland's far-right Finns Party said on Thursday it had reprimanded two of its lawmakers who posted derogatory ...

Apple Inc. and Google LLC announced sweeping changes to their app distribution and payment rules in Japan on Dec. 18 to match the country’s new law aimed at promoting competition in smartphone ...

Yuriko Koike, the conservative governor of Tokyo, clinched a victorious third term on July 7 in a crowded election held in ...

Drawing on his diaries and private footage, “Ryuichi Sakamoto: Diaries” poignantly traces the final three and a half years of ...

As bear encounters and attacks reach record levels across Japan, technology has added a new layer of confusion with videos ...

KYOTO--A European-style cake that was likely a favorite of warlord Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582) has been revived despite a dearth ...

The government will require individuals to declare their nationality for property transfers and purchases of forest land ...

The Upper House on Dec. 16 passed the supplementary budget bill for fiscal 2025, the first compiled by the Sanae Takaichi ...

The government has finalized plans to end subsidies to large-scale solar power stations, given the declining production costs ...

KYOTO—The character for “kuma” (bear) is the kanji of the year, a not unexpected choice that narrowly edged out the character ...