Rice is more than just a food source in Japan. It plays a crucial role in the country’s agricultural industry.

The Monster Hunter series exploded in popularity globally after years of success in Japan. How did they do it? The incident happened during a public event where the K-pop star hugged 1,000 fans.

The defense heads of the Philippines and Japan on Monday met to discuss the attempts of China and other countries to disrupt international order. Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. and ...

The vast majority of the public continues to endorse the country's death penalty system, according to a recent government survey. In the Cabinet Office's survey of 1,815 people between October and ...

Feb. 19 marks the anniversary of an executive order that led to the involuntary detention of thousands of Japanese Americans in California and the U.S. as a whole.The order came in the wake of the ...

Ichiro Aisawa, head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's working team on Japan's surname system, speaks during a team meeting at the party's headquarters in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Feb. 12 ...

Taiwan’s inclusion in Japan’s family registry system was the result of years of discreet efforts by Taiwanese diplomats and Taiwan-friendly Japanese lawmakers, former representative to Japan Frank ...

Tokyo, Feb. 17 (Jiji Press)--Japan plans to establish a system allowing the central government to promptly repair locally managed airports damaged by disasters, in place of local governments.

TOKYO -- Japan's Justice Ministry is expanding the scope of the nationality entry in official family records from May, Nikkei has learned, with the option to include a region -- opening the door ...

At a time of population decline and swelling social security expenditure, it’s high time for the public to gain a deeper understanding of the country’s pension system and how it could be ...

An operating system is the essential software that's needed to run your computer's suite of software. Everything from video games to web browsing, basic word processing, and more is down thanks to ...

As cinema spreads across the globe, Japan shines as one of the leading and cherished film ... ‘Inu-oh’ is a rare film that blends a feudal setting with rock music in a brilliant manner. You can watch ...