Nobuyuki Baba, head of Japan's second-largest opposition party, has announced his intention not to run in its leadership race ...

While scientific research progresses, some elements of the Japanese diet can already be adopted for potential health benefits. Adopting a balanced, Japanese-style diet rich in whole foods ...

Next week , Japan’s national legislature, the Diet, is scheduled to convene its first session after the general elections on ...

Political parties in Japan are jockeying to form a majority in the Diet following an election that dealt a severe blow to the ...

Japan's ruling coalition has begun policy talks with an opposition party in a bid to reach an agreement on a new economic ...

Whatever the result of the coalition talks currently underway, the opposition parties have more veto power than they have ...

Political crisis could hardly have occurred at a worse time as government’s decision to call elections backfires.

Japan's longtime ruling party appears set to be voted out of power in the lower house of the Diet following Sunday elections, ...

The 36-year-old detailed her daily meal plan “as a former vegan who added ... “Someone suggested I try a Japanese diet because it’s one of the healthiest diets in the world, and it has ...

On Sunday, Japanese voters handed the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its junior partner, Komeito, ...

Ruling and opposition parties agreed to convene a special Diet session on Nov. 11, but they failed to reach a consensus on anything else.

An opposition party member will lead a powerful budget committee in Japan's lower house for the first time in three decades after the ruling camp agreed Thursday to leave its hold of the critical post ...