Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced her second reshuffled Cabinet on Sept. 17 after personally reviewing questionnaires ...

CHIBA—A record 1,138 domestic and foreign companies are exhibitors at the Tokyo Game Show, a convention that ...

Sun Guangqing’s prefabricated homes factory in China opened in 2022 just as the property sector entered a prolonged crisis ...

BRUSSELS—Despite electing its first female prime minister, Japan remained in the bottom 20 percent of countries covered in ...

A naming ceremony for a new cruise ship was held on Sept. 16 in Yokohama, the latest entrant in Japan’s campaign to expand ...

The “Dadachamame,” a specialty product of this northeastern city, is a line of “edamame” soybeans that are eaten green and ...

NAGOYA—Organizers of the Asian Games, the largest sports event on the continent, are preparing to evacuate athletes and ...

SEOUL—South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said on Thursday that an announcement on Seoul’s U.S. investment plans under its ...

Longtime Canon Inc. President Fujio Mitarai will step down from his post at the age of 90, but he has no plans to retire for now. Canon announced on Jan. 29 that Executive Vice President Kazuto Ogawa, ...

The average price of a new apartment in Tokyo’s 23 wards in fiscal 2025 topped 130 million yen ($827,000) for the first time, while surrounding areas also soared to record highs, a report showed. The ...

KAWASAKI—Three workers were killed, one was injured and another remains missing after a 500-ton counterweight and scaffolding collapsed during a crane-dismantling operation at a steel mill on April 7.

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture—The Yamato Museum reopened here on April 23 following year-long renovations to bring the behemoth World War II battleship closer to real life based on the latest research.