BEIJING—Takeshi Iwaya on Dec. 25 became the first Japanese foreign minister in about 20 months to visit China, where he announced eased visa requirements for Chinese travelers and called for…
SEOUL--South Korea expressed regret to Japan on Monday over Tokyo's attitude towards a memorial service held for laborers including Koreans forced to work in Japan's Sado mines during World War…
SADO, Niigata Prefecture--Japan was set to go ahead with a memorial ceremony Sunday near the Sado Island Gold Minesdespite South Korea's last-minute boycott of the event that highlighted tensions between…
SEOUL--South Korea's government said Saturday it will not attend a memorial service near Japan's Sado Island Gold Mines due to unspecified disagreements with Tokyo over the event, which stirred longstanding…
Yuichiro Tamaki, the leader of a small opposition party now able to wield outsized political influence, had long puzzled over how best to revive a moribund deflation-entrapped Japanese economy. A…
The coalition ruling of the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito lost its majority in the Lower House for the first time in 15 years, throwing control of the chamber into…
Japan's political parties are promising to raise the minimum wage, a step that may win votes in Sunday's general election but could squeeze the small and midsize firms that form…
Humans are animals that forget. German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909) is known for his famous experiment where he made up a meaningless phrase and memorized it to study the process…
A UN committee will ask the Japanese government this month to improve gender equality in the nation, based on the UN General Assembly's international agreement of rights for women. The…
Worker falls from Expo construction site, no life-threatening injuries; Association says "no impact on construction schedule" Source link