The number of people in Japan aged 100 or older has risen to a record high of nearly 100,000, its government has announced. Setting a new record for the 55th year in a row, the number of centenarians ...
Motoko Shimada fondly recalls when a classmate at her public school in the western Japanese city of Nara, Sanae Takaichi, ...
A Japanese nationalist party led by fiery anti-globalist Sohei Kamiya was among the biggest winners in this summer’s ...
Modern Japan sounds like a sci-fi premise: the incredible shrinking country. Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo. But the ...
An admirer of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Sanae Takaichi is a protege of the ultra-conservative vision ...
Residents are protesting a planned housing facility for foreign workers, exposing the conflict between Japan’s need for labor ...
The country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Saturday voted Takaichi to be the party’s next leader, which is also ...
TOKYO -- Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) President Sanae Takaichi secretly met Yuichiro Tamaki, head of the opposition ...
What watches do U.S. Navy sailors wear? In this episode, we visit Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan to meet real U.S. Navy service ...
Japan's next prime minister is likely to be the nation's first female leader or the youngest premier in 140 years as the ...