MADRID―Takeda Pharmaceutical plans to seek regulatory approval ‌in Japan next year for its gastric cancer drug, after it ⁠extended overall survival and delayed ⁠disease progression in a late-stage ...

J-pop is a tough sell overseas, but in recent years more musicians are challenging that perception and finding success abroad ...

Pickleball, a sport often called a miniature version of tennis, has gained so much in popularity in Japan that the country ...

U.S. holds secret talks with Myanmar’s rulers in Tokyo, sources say ...

Sekihara, 41, and the colleague left the megabank and co-founded Nakaral, a startup based in Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward. Nakaral gives parents a more hands-free approach to bringing their children to ...

Sendai residents have bragging rights to living in the most comfortable city in Japan, as government statistics support their ...

After a six-month suspension, the government plans to resume accepting foreign workers who prepare meals at welfare facilities and schools under the Specified Skilled Worker program. The government ...

Oppenheimer” finally premiered Friday in the nation where two cities were obliterated 79 years ago by the nuclear weapons invented by the American scientist who was the subject of the Oscar-winning ...

Japan’s government on Aug. 7 officially launched a contentious debate on capping its foreign population as a high-level working group convened for the first time to hash out a future immigration ...

Pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi over reports that her aide was involved in posting videos on social media to disparage her rivals in the Liberal Democratic Party leadership race ...

Misinformation about a project aimed at promoting friendship between Japan and Africa sparked a wave of online protests concerning an expected “flood of immigrants” and prompted the Foreign Ministry ...

Powerful Typhoon No. 6 was expected to bring heavy rain and violent winds to Okinawa Prefecture on June 1 before veering toward the main Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku. The Japan ...