Tuesday marked the 80th anniversary of the promulgation of the Constitution, but momentum for constitutional revision remains low in the Diet due to the numerous challenges faced by the ruling parties ...

A giant float parades through the center of Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, during the Karatsu Kunchi autumn festival. Lit with lanterns, 14 Hikiyama floats of the Yoiyama parade began their march in the ...

The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry is considering ending the automatic inclusion of international calling services in landline phone contracts to combat special frauds involving ...

It is the duty of the Diet to review the nation’s supreme law in light of changing times. Not a single motion for amendment has been put forward in the past 80 years, so the gap between the ...

Because it is a major online service company, the firm should have addressed its service’s vulnerability as its top priority as soon as the problem was identified.

The harvest of farmed oysters began on Monday in Hiroshima Prefecture, which boasts the highest oyster production across Japan.

Infielder Teruaki Sato of the Central League’s Hanshin Tigers and right-handers Kaima Taira of the Saitama Seibu Lions and Hiromi Itoh of the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in the Pacific League are ...

Step inside the building, and the first thing to greet visitors is an entire 6.6-meter-high wall covered with wooden patterns.

APThe statue of Pharaoh Ramses II, is seen at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, Egypt, Sunday, during a celebration to mark its first anniversary. Jiji Press [posttime] JST, [postdate] Cairo, Nov. 1 ...