Prefectural police arrested a couple here on suspicion of disguising approximately 45 tons of rice from Vietnam as ...

A weary Shimon Sakaguchi arrived at the University of Osaka on the morning of Oct. 7 and managed to smile as he accepted a bouquet. “I’m truly overwhelmed,” he told around 80 university staff members ...

Sanae Takaichi, new president of the Liberal Democratic Party, launched her party leadership team on Oct. 7, featuring some of her conservative allies and a veteran embroiled in a high-profile ...

TOKYO--Asian shares were mostly higher Tuesday in quiet holiday trading, while Japan’s benchmark rose to new records on hope for more government spending and lower taxes under Japan’s first woman ...

NARA--Motoko Shimada fondly recalls when a classmate at her public school in the western Japanese city of Nara, Sanae Takaichi, showed early signs of the leadership that would set her on course to ...

Immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi, a co-winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, said he hopes research in his field will soon produce therapeutic applications to autoimmune diseases.

Japanese teachers continue to work the most hours among educators in major countries and regions, according to a survey by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Typhoon No. 22 is expected to intensify and could approach the Izu island chain south of Tokyo with a “very strong” force by Oct. 9, the Japan Meteorological Agency warned. The storm was south of ...

HIROSHIMA—The leader of opposition party Sanseito ruled out joining the minority government of the “failing” Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito after Sanae Takaichi was elected LDP president.

Super-sized servings of tasty dishes at a throwaway price sound too good to be true, especially with the cost of living going through the roof.

JAKARTA--Indonesia revoked a suspension on TikTok’s local operating license after the Chinese-owned social media platform shared data requested by the government on its live streaming activity ...

When Mikiharu Tsujita launched Full Count in 1992, he did so with a singular, almost romantic ambition: to re-create the jeans he revered most—the Levi’s 501s of the 1940s and ’50s, the bedrock of ...