“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

Conservative lawmakers decry a change of the surname rule in the Civil Code as an attack on traditional values and tie it to ...

Source: Ministry of Finance of Japan By The New York Times By River Akira Davis Reporting from Tokyo As Washington and Beijing wage an intensifying trade war, Japan is caught in the middle of the ...

A three-judge panel at Yokohama District Court found Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Krieger liable in a civil suit and ...

Former Japanese economy minister Yasutoshi Nishimura meets the press after offering prayers at war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo during its three-day spring festival on April 23, 2025.

A hotel in Kyoto, Japan, asked an Israeli tourist to sign a declaration that he had not committed war crimes during his military service as a condition to check in, Ynetnews reported on Saturday.

Since 1947, Japanese Civil Code has stipulated that all married ... which has been in power for much of the post-World War II era. LDP lawmakers have repeatedly squashed proposals, stating that ...

Four months later, with this massive military assistance from the U.S., the Soviet Union landed on the Kuril Islands, ...