The number of people 65 and older who live alone continues to increase. This demographic is expected to make up more than 20 ...

Recent research has revealed that resume photos significantly influence hiring decisions, exposing biases among human ...

The 29th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) opened on Nov. 11 in Baku, ...

The Diet on Nov. 11 elected Shigeru Ishiba, president of the Liberal Democratic Party, as the 103rd prime minister of Japan ...

Hirofumi Yoshimura, co-leader of Nippon Ishin (Japan Innovation Party), will run for party president to replace Nobuyuki Baba, who is stepping aside over the opposition party’s “crushing defeat” in ...

The welfare ministry is reviewing the eligibility requirements and calculation methods for pension lump-sum withdrawal ...

OTSU—The centuries-old Otsu Festival, featuring parades of lavishly decorated floats adorned with mechanical puppets, will ...

Local emergency responders are under fire here for wrongfully declaring an elderly man dead while he was still alive and in ...

Japan's government will propose a $65 billion plan to boost its chip industry with subsidies and other financial assistance ...

The economy ministry has lifted its restrictive bathroom policy for a transgender employee in her 50s, telling her on Nov. 8 ...

TOKYO--Japanese technology group SoftBank swung back to profitability in the July-September quarter, boosted by positive ...

Yuichiro Tamaki, the leader of a small opposition party now able to wield outsized political influence, had long puzzled over ...