In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, Japan's pharmaceutical companies boasted that they would quickly find solutions – including the...

When Taro Kono was appointed Japan’s minister of administrative reform in September 2020, he immediately set himself a nine-month deadline...

A 15-year-old girl who stabbed two people in Tokyo’s Shibuya district on Saturday (Aug 20) and expressed intention to kill...

The subject of Japan 's social recluses has returned to the spotlight after a new survey revealed for the first...

While many governments around the world would probably be delighted if their citizens drank less alcohol, Japan is taking a...

The Japanese government will this week hold the first meeting of a new panel set up to investigate coercion in...

Japan on Tuesday (Aug 9) marked the 77th anniversary of the atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki city, with addresses at...

Few Japanese netizens are shedding tears over the execution of a man convicted of stabbing seven people to death in...

Teachers at a school in southern Japan are being mocked and condemned after a 14-year-old girl was punished for plucking...

Two of Japan’s most notorious underworld groups are locked in an escalating cycle of violence that one analyst suggests is an...