The government has launched efforts toward public-private collaboration with Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia to ...

The government is planning to raise the subsidy cap for electric vehicle purchases by ¥400,000, for a maximum of ¥1.3 million ...

Former Maebashi Mayor Akira Ogawa, who resigned over an affair involving multiple hotel visits with a married male employee, ...

Medical institutions and doctors are concentrated in urban areas, and more than a few regional areas are struggling with a shortage of doctors.

The Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party aim to leave debate about a planned reduction of Diet seats in ...

Panda fans flocked to the Ueno Zoological Gardens in Taito Ward, Tokyo, on Tuesday, following the announcement that its twin ...

The government is considering allocating a record of more than ¥9 trillion for defense spending in its initial fiscal 2026 budget proposal, according to sources from the government and ruling parties.

Several Cabinet ministers lauded The Yomiuri Shimbun’s set of proposals on coexistence with trustworthy generative artificial ...

The two-month-old coalition government of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party is already showing ...

Yomiuri Shimbun file photoThe building of Tokyo Station The Yomiuri Shimbun [posttime] JST, [postdate] Tokyo rose to second ...

Crowding for outbound JR trains is expected to peak on Dec. 27 and inbound on Jan. 3, according to JR Group’s six companies.

Workers busily make baskets with haru-no-nanakusa, or seven kinds of spring plants, at Ueshige Noen, a horticultural company ...