Sanae Takaichi, president of the Liberal Democratic Party, was elected Japan's first female prime minister in parliament on ...

Sanae Takaichi, president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is set to be elected Japan's first female prime minister on ...

A lantern festival was held in this western Japan city on Oct. 18, with approximately 25,000 lanterns illuminating 26 ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Nippon Ishin (the Japan Innovation Party, JIP) have agreed to legislate a plan ...

Following the historic coalition deal between the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party, unease is growing ...

Yoshihiko Noda, leader of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP), expressed concerns over a ...

FUKUSHIMA -- A "nighttime orchard" event, featuring the illumination of an orchard growing Fukushima's specialty apples, will ...

Bamboo shoots emerge anew to form new canes each year, with some species recorded to grow over one meter in a single day.

Sanae Takaichi, a star of ultraconservative Japanese politics and a rare woman to rise in its male-dominated hierarchy, has ...

The Fukuoka Prefectural Government has issued an improvement advisory to the operator of a private day care center after 10 ...

A 99-year-old man was fined 300,000 yen ($2,000) after driving in the wrong direction on an expressway in central Japan and ...