An ambitious government program aims to foster a new generation of startups that can compete with Silicon Valley by targeting sectors such as robotics, quantum ...

The result will come as a relief to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who is pushing for the relocation of the Futenma U.S. military base to ...

Tokyo confirmed 9,468 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, a day after the daily figure topped the 10,000-threshold for the first time ever.With the rapid ...

The dip in the Cabinet's approval rating comes as Japan grapples with recent surges in COVID-19 infections, driven by the highly transmissible omicron variant.

The total number of severe patients announced by local governments nationwide stood at 51 on Jan. 1. That figure topped 400 on Friday for the ...

The rapid spread of the omicron variant seems to be having less of an impact in people's behavior compared to previous waves of the coronavirus.