If you’re trying to decide whether to visit Japan in November, then you really should go ahead and book that trip. November is one of the very best times of the year to visit Japan, thanks in no small ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. “He is the pride of Japan.” Shohei Ohtani fans in Japan are celebrating the Dodgers’ World Series win ...

TOKYO -- The World Series trophy is headed to Los Angeles, but there's a hearty celebration going on across the Pacific Ocean in Japan, too. People milled around the edge of the Ginza shopping ...

“Japan is standing on the verge of whether [it] can continue to function as a society.” While the Japanese government and people might not be against immigrants, Japan could provide them with better ...

Suicides among young people in Japan stayed at alarmingly high levels and distinct patterns were observed based on age and gender, according to the latest government white paper on suicide ...

By Motoko Rich Kiuko Notoya and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo Japan’s governing party lost its majority in parliamentary elections on Sunday, as voters delivered an emphatic rejection of the ...

Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed almost continuously since 1955, has lost its parliamentary majority in the powerful lower house for the first time in 15 years. Public anger ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s newly appointed administration faces a pivotal early test in the upcoming Lower House election, called only nine days into his leadership. The election is the ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (Reuters) - A weak yen is beneficial for Japan's economy as the boost to exports exceeds the increase in the cost of imports, a senior International Monetary Fund (IMF ...

So goes an anecdote making the rounds in Japanese tech circles. It suggests that Japan is a land of opportunity when it comes to AI. The tale is instructive. Japanese do feel relatively little ...

“You can feel that this tree is still alive.” Some 140 years ago, laborers on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands, soaked a massive felled tree in the ocean for 12 month ...