The body of a Japanese financier based in Switzerland and another body believed to be that of his wife are found in Saitama Prefecture.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet approves a record ¥92.6 trillion budget, aiming to shore up the economy through large-scale public works projects.

A “privacy visor” that uses infrared light to interfere with facial recognition technology has been developed to thwart the steady rise in computer-based surveillance in Japan. The goggles are useful for anyone who wants to avoid being recognized by hidden surveillance cameras, the inventors ...

About 30 municipal heads in Okinawa urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday to rescind the government’s approval of the MV-22 Osprey deployment at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. The chiefs, including Naha Mayor Takeshi Onaga and Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine, handed the ...

The 150-day ordinary Diet session that kicked off Monday will be an opportunity for the opposition camp to confront the new Liberal Democratic Party administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Age in the runup to the July Upper House election.

Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto is prepared to resign if the municipal board of education didn't cancel special sports-major slots at a high school where a student committed suicide in December.

Bugs are no longer just for the boys anymore — studying insects has become a hobby for women, too. “It’s so much fun, quietly moving up close to insects and taking closeup photos of their tiny faces,” said Tamaki Morita, a 30-year-old office worker ...

For newcomers to Japan, especially those who come from countries that don’t experience frequent earthquakes, preparing for natural disasters like the megaquake and tsunami that hit the Tohoku region on March 11, 2011, may not come so easily.