The country faces challenges such as a drop in tourism, competition from cheaper Chinese electric vehicles, and a baby bust with low fertility rates.

The defense minister underlined the importance of boosting self-reliance following Beijing’s ban on exporting dual-use items to Japan.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s government aims to eventually mine and industrialize rare earths at home, but the timing, investment costs and viability of the project are unknown.

If you want to feel Japan in motion, there’s only one way: run. For visitors, marathons are often the reason to come; for ...

The rocket is set to lift off from the company’s Spaceport Kii launch site in the town of Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, ...

Mizuho Financial Group is planning to replace about 5,000 administrative jobs in Japan with artificial intelligence over the ...

From April, copyright holders of previously unattributed works who come forward after the agency grants usage permission for ...

Two of the researchers were also the first to create ovarian organoids from mouse embryonic stem cells, in 2021.

Prefectural officials have defended the plan to fully subsidize one-way fares for foreign tourists as a necessary bet on ...

McLaren is defending both titles this year after Britain's Lando Norris ended the four-year reign of Red Bull's Max Verstappen.

Police suspect the woman took an English proficiency exam last year on behalf of a Chinese man and received about ¥1 million ...

The institution was selected last month to receive aid from the government's ¥10 trillion fund designed to foster universities with world-class research capabilities.