The Japanese government has rejected the UN's recommendation to permit women in the imperial line of succession.

Nominations for Japan’s buzzword of the year were released on Tuesday, revealing the trends and conversations that dominated ...

Domestic stability enabled Japan to take on an international leadership role. Those days may be over. The post A Weakened ...

The Japanese government is unlikely to submit an envisioned bill to enhance cybersecurity capabilities by year-end, a government source said Sunday, as discussions have stalled following last month's ...

Japan set for rare political shakeup after ruling Liberal Democratic party suffers ‘severe judgment’ in general election.

The Tokyo high court ruled on Wednesday that the country’s ban on same-sex marriage is “a groundless legal discrimination based on sexual orientation” that violates the constitutionally guaranteed ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s conservative ruling party is bracing for a blow to its comfortable majority in the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's economic advisory panel on Wednesday called on the government, ...

Voters dealt a heavier-than-expected blow to Japan's government on Sunday, depriving the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)-led coalition of its majority in the parliament's lower house for the first time ...

Sunday’s general election in Japan left a mess. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has ruled Japan for much of the past 70 years, lost its majority in the House of Representatives, which ...

One question is how Japan will pay for the nation’s biggest increase in defense spending since the end of World War II. In ...