Smile-Up, the successor firm to Johnny & Associates, announces that it has started compensating victims of sexual abuse ...

More than 1,000 North Korean defectors join a job-hunting event in Seoul.

Workers at Naritasan Shinshoji Temple in Chiba Prefecture weave sacred ropes from rice straw.

Prime Minister Kishida Fumio says Japan will stop building unabated coal power plants at the COP28 summit, but the count...

Princess Aiko, the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, turns 22 years old.

A ceremony takes place in Tokyo to mark 500 days to go until the Osaka Expo begins in western Japan.

A ceremony commemorating 20 years of flights between Tokyo's Haneda Airport and Seoul's Gimpo Airport takes place in the...

The Second meeting of States Parties to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons begins at the United Nations...

The Japanese Diet passes a supplementary budget bill for fiscal 2023 to underpin new economic measures.

The Ibaraki Prefectural Government publishes the results of a simulation in the event of an accident at the Tokai No. 2 ...