Japan will get its second prime minister in just over a year when the ruling Liberal Democratic Party holds a leadership ...

One of the forces driving the change is the investment vehicle that Kuga chose: a Nippon individual savings account, or NISA.

O VERNIGHT SUCCESS”, a thumping 1980s pop song, blared as Takaichi Sanae stepped up to the podium to announce her candidacy ...

The only woman in the leadership race for Japan's ruling party vowed Monday to improve the gender balance in her cabinet to ...

The woman named Azarashi revealed that she crossed paths with her to-be-husband in 2020 when she found an unattended mobile ...

TOKYO (AP) — For centuries, sumo's deep links with the Shinto religion barred women from entering the ring, let alone allowing them to participate. While women remain excluded from professional sumo, ...

Sumo is more than a sport in Japan. It’s a sacred tradition, a 1,500-year-old spectacle steeped in Shinto ritual and ceremony. But at its heart lies a long-standing taboo: women are still barred from ...

Japan’s largest electric company has agreed to buy 1 million tons of natural gas per year from the proposed trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline, developer Glenfarne said Wednesday. A final decision on ...

Japan's tariff negotiator said the US would revise tariffs on Japanese goods by September 16. In an X post, he said there would be a reduction in Japanese automobile tariffs. The tariff rate for goods ...

A woman was seriously injured after being thrown out of her vehicle in Chester. Police, fire and ambulance crews were called Wednesday shortly after 11:30 p.m. to the area of the 800 block of West ...

This is at least the fourth case of a Japan Airlines pilot being caught drinking before a flight. Several Japan Airlines flights from Hawaii to Japan were delayed up to 18 hours after a pilot was ...