Team Mirai, a new party founded in May 2025, secured 11 seats in the lower house. The newly-elected lawmakers from Team Mirai ...

Japanese companies now own 33 homebuilders that operate in the U.S. Once the most recent deals are closed, they will have close to 6% of U.S. market share.

Japan's conservative Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has vowed tougher measures on immigration, but a video circulating online ...

Martin Margiela, one of the most influential and elusive figures in contemporary culture, to stage his first large-scale ...

Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani took on-field batting practice before Team Japan played a tuneup game for the World Baseball Classic.

The best he can recall, Yoshinobu Yamamoto was in a classroom when he made his first World Baseball Classic memory.

A voter casts their ballot in the House of Representatives election at a polling station in Tokyo on Feb 8, 2026. [Photo/Agencies] Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party is ...

This is why Newsweek and Statista are proud to launch Japan’s Best Nursing Homes 2026, marking the first year of this survey. Our goal is to bring clarity, transparency and recognition to facilities ...

Voting in Japan's general election began on Sunday morning, with more than 1,200 candidates competing for 465 seats in the House of Representatives, the powerful lower chamber of parliament. One main ...

Tokyo, Feb. 17 (Jiji Press)--Japan's major opposition Centrist Reform Alliance on Tuesday recommended Keiichi Ishii as vice speaker of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, the ...

He was never arrested or charged with a crime. But like over 120,000 other Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans, he and his family were rounded up and sent on buses to prison camps in the West ...

Tokyo, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)--Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party plans to recommend former Justice Minister Eisuke Mori as speaker of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, ...