A smelting furnace exploded Sunday at a Chinese-owned nickel plant on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 13 ...

A rather isolated community of large palatial buildings is nestled in a mountainous area of Gapyeong, Gyeonggi province, ...

The government officially decided on its basic energy plan at a Feb. 18 Cabinet meeting, outlining a mid- to long-term policy ...

Administrative organs are required to create and retain documents so that their decisions and actions can be examined later.

Booming inbound tourism and another blistering summer combined to send rice retail prices skyrocketing at supermarkets across ...

Unaffiliated voters shifted away from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the Oct. 27 Lower House election and fueled the ...

Questionable medical examination practices involving children have been reported at schools around Japan, prompting education ...

In a hugely significant policy shift for pacifist Japan, the government approved revisions that will allow for the export of ...

The number of children under 15 years old in Japan is 13.66 million, 350,000 fewer than in 2024 and the lowest on record, the ...

A university in Japan announced a major breakthrough in the complete farming of highly endangered Japanese eels, claiming a ...

Robust wage growth continued in this year’s “shunto” spring labor negotiations, as major companies gave favorable responses ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) announced on Dec. 10 that it plans to introduce walk-through gates within the next decade, ...