The government plans to start discussions surrounding the deployment of nuclear-powered submarines to the Self-Defense Forces ...

Japan’s Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Henri B. Kagan, the Nobel Committee for Chemistry announced in ...

The Fair Trade Commission raided four major brewers Wednesday for allegedly forming an illegal cartel to adjust shipment prices for beer and other products, sources familiar with the matter said.

Visitors to the Nagai Botanical Garden in Higashi-Sumiyoshi Ward, Osaka, enjoy taking pictures of the fantastic sea of fluffy, hairlike, pale-pink flowers on the muhlenbergia capillaris plants, which ...

The Okinawa prefectural assembly opened its first session on Tuesday since Gov. Genta Koja — endorsed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and others — took office in September.

Lt. Gen. Benjamin Watson, commander of III Marine Expeditionary Force and Marine Forces Japan, announced in a letter posted on social media X platform that all U.S. military personnel on Okinawa would ...

Cyberattacks on domestic companies and organizations have resulted in more than 500 cases of user information being leaked this year, already exceeding the annual total for 2025, it has been learned.

Public anxiety is mounting in the wake of a series of data leaks at public organizations and companies. This is an urgent issue, and the government must act quickly to enhance its response ...

Oct. 7 marks three years since large-scale fighting broke out in the Palestinian territory of Gaza between the Islamist group Hamas and the Israeli military.

A subsidiary of major book distributor Nippan Group Holdings, Inc. has sold Japanese books to U.S. artificial intelligence developer Anthropic PBC without notifying the publishers, it has been learned ...

The Yomiuri ShimbunProf. Takeshi Nakamori discusses Imony at Yamagata University’s Kojirakawa Campus in Yamagata City. By Ryoma Obara / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer [posttime] JST, [postdate] YAMAGATA ...

Single caregiving” refers to a situation in which an unmarried adult child takes sole responsibility for caring for an aging parent.