The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry plans to begin providing support in fiscal 2027 to drug makers for them to manage ...

Giant pumpkins appeared at Yumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome in Koto Ward, Tokyo, ahead of Halloween on Oct. 31, delighting visitors who enjoyed rolling the pumpkins around and took commemorative ...

The Yomiuri Shimbun Cosmos flowers are seen in full bloom against the backdrop of Mt. Fuji on Sunday. The Yomiuri Shimbun. 13:03 JST, October 19, 2026. FUJI, Shizuoka — Cosmos f ...

Typhoon Champi, also known as Typhoon No. 30, is forecast to approach the south of Okinawa Prefecture on Thursday.

Ahead of the anniversary of the death of Saigo Takamori, a leading figure in the Meiji Restoration, volunteers spruced up the area around a statue of the samurai in Kagoshima City on Sept. 18.

The Justice Ministry will launch a pilot program next fiscal year to provide specialized treatment for prison inmates with severe behavioral disorders that cause them to harm themselves or others.

It goes without saying that should an enemy launch a missile attack against Japan, Japan must be able to strike back at the enemy’s launch site, but there are many challenges to realizing this ...

The Supreme Court has decided to allow courts in Tokyo and three other prefectures to start issuing arrest warrants and other orders online from this fiscal year. The measure coincides with the ...

President Emmanuel Macron appealed for calm on Sunday, a day after France suffered one of its worst days of unrest in years, with thousands arrested and shops looted or damaged after protests over ...

A fire festival commemorating the triumphant return of the Murakami pirates, who were active in the Seto Inland Sea during the Sengoku period (from mid-15th century to late 16th century), was held in ...

The capabilities of artificial intelligence are evolving at an astonishing rate and have even led to incidents in which ...

The government plans to have a corporation that will serve as a “command hub” for the content industry to centrally ...