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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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