Cases of abuse against people with disabilities in Japan reached a record high of 3,770 in fiscal 2024, the welfare ministry said Tuesday, citing an increase in consultations and reports to local ...
Hyogo prefectural police executives have been punished over gifts and other favors from a company commissioned to provide services to the western Japan police, Jiji Press learned Wednesday. A police ...
Japanese and U.S. officials held the second round of talks Tuesday on which U.S. projects will receive Japanese funding as part of a trade agreement between the two countries, the Japanese government ...
Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama and health minister Kenichiro Ueno agreed Wednesday to raise medical service fees by 2.22 pct in fiscal 2026, the first increase in 12 years. Katayama and Ue ...
The Japanese government is in the final stages of work to set the size of its fiscal 2026 general-account budget at around 122.3 trillion yen, informed sources said Wednesday. The figure, larger than ...
Masashi Ozaki, Japan's most successful male professional golfer, better known by his nickname "Jumbo Ozaki," or simply "Jumbo," died of sigmoid colon cancer Tuesday at the age of 78. A native of the s ...
Crowds flocked to ADNEC in Abu Dhabi as millions more watched around the world, cementing the phygital sporting event's ...
Education Cannot Wait-funded transition courses by UNICEF help out-of-school and displaced children, including twin sisters, ...
HUAWEI Mobile Services (HMS) launched its global Winter Festival Campaign, running from December 1 to January 14. Aimed at ...
NTT East Inc. has said there is no risk of its steel tower damaged by a powerful earthquake earlier this month collapsing in the event of another major temblor. The Japanese telecommunications carrier ...
The United States has informed Japan of its hope to additionally use heavy weapons, such as antitank missiles and rocket launchers, in the Marine Corps' live-fire training at five firing ranges of ...
The Japanese government plans to lower passport application fees by up to 7,000 yen, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi has announced. It aims to submit a passport law amendment to next year's ...