It is not just pop culture that is facing a reckoning. Last year a female prosecutor in Osaka, in west of Japan, accused a former chief prosecutor of rape. (At first he admitted to it, but now says he ...

Japanese nominal wages rose at the fastest pace in nearly three decades, supporting the Bank of Japan’s latest rate hike ...

Reflecting on the nature of the seasons, HIH Princess Takamado explores the theme of birds in snow with her photos.

Fans have been given a voice to choose the next hot anime adaptations of tomorrow with AnimeJapan 2025's latest poll.

In a move that signals a significant push for artificial intelligence adoption outside the United States, OpenAI, the ...

SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son on Monday said he has agreed with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to set up a joint venture in Japan ...

Fed Stands Pat, Entering New Wait-and-See Phase; ECB Rate Decision in Focus By Vicky Ge Huang After cutting interest rates by a cumulative percentage point in the last three meetings of 2024, the ...

In April 2023, I spent 12 days wandering around Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan. As the days passed ... where I was flying out the next day to go home. Here's what it was like. Around 9 p.m. on the ...

Having broken Ohtani’s record for the fastest pitch thrown by a Japanese high school player ... another eight perfect innings in his very next start, amassing another 14 Ks and striking out ...

The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan named its first “next Cabinet” to confront Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s administration, but the selection process has generated some ...

Fukuoka, a vibrant city in Japan, is renowned for its unique food culture. Small, open-air, mobile food stands – called yatai – offer an array of local delicacies and give the city its unique ...

He is a native English speaker. The probability of a "megaquake" hitting Japan that could trigger enormous tsunamis and kill hundreds of thousands of people is now 82 percent, according to a ...