In the wake of a slew of fatal accidents involving elderly drivers, the government plans to create a new driver's license system that limits senior citizen | Continue reading
The world's biggest yoghurt maker, Danone, and food packaging giant, Tetra Pak, are among companies leading a global scheme to reduce plastic waste, launch | Continue reading
The Cabinet approved a plan Tuesday to reduce greenhouse emissions to zero in the second half of the 21st century as part of its strategy to fight climate | Continue reading
The Washington Post Beijing bureau chief Anna Fifield's new book, "The Great Successor," details the life of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un. | Continue reading
U.S. billionaire Michael Bloomberg pledged half a billion dollars on Friday to fight climate change, saying "our lives and our children's lives depend on i | Continue reading
Warning: The following interview contains spoilers for Haruki Murakami's latest novel, "Killing Commendatore." Best-selling Japanese author Haruki Murakami | Continue reading
Japan and China plan to cooperate on breeding research for giant pandas by signing a memorandum later this month when their leaders meet on the sidelines o | Continue reading
Paris health authorities have urged children and pregnant women living around Notre-Dame cathedral to have the levels of lead in their blood checked amid c | Continue reading
The government is considering having hospitals introduce a facial recognition system to identify patients using My Number tax and social security identific | Continue reading
For people diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer, the outlook is about as grim as it gets: the average patient won't live longer than a year. But a new | Continue reading
Fifty-three-year-old Kenji Yamase doesn't fit the traditional image of a hikikomori, but then perceptions of Japan's social recluses are changing. "People | Continue reading
Imagine the weight of 24 elephants bearing down on a tiny spot the size of a postage stamp. That's how much pressure Nippon Steel Corp.'s strongest metal c | Continue reading
Japanese police and prosecutors are now obliged to record interrogations of suspects in serious criminal cases as legal revisions fully came into force on | Continue reading
Ryuichi Iwasaki, the 51-year-old suspect in a stabbing spree in Kawasaki on Tuesday that left two dead and 17 injured, is believed to have lived like a rec | Continue reading
Xiang Xiang, a giant panda cub that has been drawing huge crowds at a Tokyo's Ueno zoo, will return to China by the end of 2020, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike sa | Continue reading
Hyper-wired South Korea is the world's 11th-largest economy, one of its most technologically advanced countries, and the first to launch a nationwide 5G ne | Continue reading
Ahead of the Group of 20 summit in Osaka at the end of June, the government adopts a policy package aimed at reducing plastic waste. | Continue reading
The policy is likely to be signed by G20 finance ministers when they meet in the city of Fukuoka on June 8-9, the Nikkei said. | Continue reading
Coverage for genomic testing starting Saturday will be applied to those who don’t respond to conventional treatments, with patients only paying 10 to 30 percent of the fees. | Continue reading
The moon was formed when it was washed out of the right eye of the god of the land while he was bathing. Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto, the moon god of Japanese folk | Continue reading
A familiar orange and green signboard glares in the pitch-dark, quiet street in a residential area. There, the owner of a 7-Eleven franchise store located | Continue reading
A bill banning parents and guardians from physically punishing children is set to pass the Diet during the current session, after the ruling and opposition | Continue reading
Rarely have Maritime Self-Defense Force ships garnered this much attention. On April 30, the Izumo helicopter carrier — one of Japan's two largest and argu | Continue reading
Japan's new supercomputer Fugaku is set to begin operations around 2021 with the country aiming to regain the title of building the world's fastest compute | Continue reading
The government plans to shift toward digital management of most public records by the time the new National Archives of Japan building opens in fiscal 2026 | Continue reading
By remaining in the ICC, states parties will sanctify the weaponization of international justice mechanisms to be used by the powerful against the weak but never against any of their own. | Continue reading
Japan's youngest professional go player, 10-year-old Sumire Nakamura, debuted in an international match in Beijing on Tuesday in a game that was closely wa | Continue reading
The system predicts floods based on detailed urban infrastructure data and the test comes amid growing risks of heavy rain on an unprecedented scale due to climate change. | Continue reading
Foreign Minister Taro Kono said Tuesday he plans to ask overseas media outlets to write Japanese names with the family name first, as is customary in the c | Continue reading
University students seem less concerned about war on the Korean Peninsula than their 1970s counterparts even though the chance of conflict is greater. | Continue reading
Major convenience store operators begin introducing measures to curb food waste as companies step up efforts to address the issue. | Continue reading
Major convenience store operators begin introducing measures to curb food waste as companies step up efforts to address the issue. | Continue reading
Toyota Motor Corp. rebuked U.S. President Donald Trump's declaration that imported cars threaten national security, signaling contentious talks are ahead f | Continue reading
The chains have until now been selling products at list price and had all but banned franchise owners from offering discounts. | Continue reading
Continuing an extreme low-carbohydrate diet stringently for a long time may accelerate aging and lead to a shorter life span, according to a recent study b | Continue reading
Municipalities that accept the request will pass on the costs for incineration to companies generating industrial plastic. | Continue reading
The Wakayama District Court began hearing arguments Friday over whether dolphin hunting violates animal cruelty laws. The plaintiffs are asking the court t | Continue reading
Second only to the United States in the world in terms of per-capita volume of single-use plastics, Japan must increase its efforts to reduce plastic waste. | Continue reading
A prototype of Japan's new shinkansen conducted a trial early Thursday, reaching 320 kilometers per hour, the maximum speed for existing shinkansen models. | Continue reading
District courts in Tokyo and seven other cities will introduce web meetings in February 2020 to connect judges and lawyers online to help make necessary pr | Continue reading
The move by the government is aimed at curbing an anticipated rise in social security expenses, by promoting prevention and delaying the onset of the disease. | Continue reading
The anti-cancer drug Kymriah will be produced by a Tokyo-based unit of Novartis AG and is expected to carry the highest price tag of any single drug in Japan. | Continue reading
The communications ministry plans to create some 10 billion 14-digit phone numbers starting with "020" for assignment. With the commercialization of the fi | Continue reading
A research team led by the National Museum of Nature and Science said Monday it has sequenced and analyzed with high accuracy the whole genome of a woman w | Continue reading
More and more highly educated young people from South Korea, which like Japan has a rapidly graying population and needs more foreign labor for its economy | Continue reading
It's time to stop drinking with the boss after work. That's the message of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. banking unit executive Saiko Nanri, who want | Continue reading
While some people pine for traditions from Japan's ancient past, it might actually be the more modern things that we'll truly miss. | Continue reading
There are days when Makiko Ishikawa can barely breathe. Indeed, the 62-year-old Tokyoite has been short of breath for decades. In the early 1970s, she bega | Continue reading