Regarding the consumption tax rate on food items, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has told reporters that the government will “lower the rate to 1% for two years starting in April 2027.” ...

The Tokyo District Court on Friday handed Japan volleyball international Shunichiro Sato a one year prison sentence, suspended for three years, for possession of dried cannabis.

Tokyo saw its net population inflow rise again last year, reaching 79,285, a level close to that before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry has reported. Advocating ...

South Korea’s Kospi index jumped nearly 18% on Friday, tracking gains on Wall Street as artificial intelligence-related stocks bounced back after losses earlier this week.

The Kumamoto prefectural disaster response headquarters said Friday one more death had been confirmed following Tuesday’s powerful earthquake, bringing the death toll to 35, including one whose ...

Akiko Wada, whose singing career has spanned 58 years, is one of Japan’s most famous singers. While releasing new songs and serving as a radio personality for many years, she still takes on various ...

The leader of a rescue team that worked at the devastated Aeon Mall Kumamoto in Kashima, Kumamoto Prefecture, returned to Fukuoka on Thursday and spoke to reporters about the difficult task.

A male worker at Nippon Paper Industries Co.’s mill in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, told The Yomiuri Shimbun that he never imagined before Tuesday’s powerful earthquake that the huge chimneys ...

Tuesday’s Kumamoto earthquake was the first time a temblor measuring the maximum 7 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale struck the nation in midsummer, and some shelters were poorly equipped for ...

The Defense Ministry announced Thursday that Chokai, a Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Aegis-equipped destroyer, conducted a live-fire test of a U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missile in the Pacific Ocean on ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has announced the government plans to cut the consumption tax rate on food from 8% to 1% for two years, starting in April next year.

Editorial [posttime] JST, [postdate] In the South American country of Peru, Keiko Fujimori, the eldest daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, has become president. She will be tested as to ...