Legislation aimed at expanding the use of pre-marriage family names to alleviate inconveniences in social activities is ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nearly 40 percent of Japanese people aged 20 or under prefer to receive New Year money gifts known as ...

Snow fell in central Tokyo on Friday, the season's first snowfall in the capital, the country's weather agency said.

Two-time reigning overall champion Aoyama Gakuin University won the outbound route of the annual two-day Tokyo-Hakone ...

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Friday that she and U.S. President Donald Trump have agreed to work toward meeting ...

Some major Japanese department stores launched the year's first sales on Friday, attracting many shoppers with merchandise ...

Kochi University in this western Japan city has installed the first vending machine at a Japanese college that allows holders ...

The small town of Biei in Hokkaido made headlines in January last year when it cut down a row of photogenic white birch ...

A recent proposal by the World Badminton Federation could see the nature of the sport shift dramatically, with each ...

The number of Muslims in Japan is growing. In 2024, there were about 420,000 Muslims in Japan, about 0.3% of the total ...

Japan's revised "equal pay for equal work" guidelines will require that nonregular workers who work continuously receive the ...

Japan aims to reduce clothes waste by 25 percent by fiscal 2030 compared with 10 years before to address the environmental ...