A decision made 70 years ago to reforest vast swathes of Japan with just two kinds of tree has come back to haunt the country.

The number of public school students requiring special Japanese-language instruction reached a record high of 84,759 in ...

Despite Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s pledge last February to “appropriately handle” the flow of government aid to Myanmar’s abusive military, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official told the ...

Japan plans to join the U.S.-led Genesis Mission, investing $500 million in artificial intelligence research as Washington ...

A Japanese consortium has decided to retain its stake in the new Russian operator of the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project and is set to notify Moscow, moving to secure stable energy supplies for ...

If successful, Project OHISAMA could revolutionize how we harness renewable energy by enabling solar power even at night, slashing dependence on fossil fuels, and marking a major milestone in ...

The anticipated ¥1 trillion ($6.3 billion) fee for SoftBank Group Corp. from a U.S.-Japan project has been slashed by over 90% due to intervention from Tokyo officials amid growing concerns over the ...

Each year at the onset of spring, millions of people throughout Japan prepare for weeks of sneezing, itchy eyes, congestion, ...

Following the meeting between Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe and Russian president Vladimir Putin, on the margin of the Group of Twenty (G20) summit in Osaka, Japan on June 28-29, Russian and ...