Maintaining its claim of sovereignty over the northern territories as an integral part of the country, Japan has patiently negotiated with the former Soviet Union and then Russia for the return of th...

MEXICO CITY (Jiji Press)--Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday he would meet later this year with officials from a 33-member group of Latin American and Caribbean countries. During his speech ...

KOFU (Jiji Press)--Ten bereaved relatives of five victims of a fatal expressway tunnel ceiling collapse in December plan to sue Central Nippon Expressway Co., or NEXCO Central, on May 15, lawyers for...

Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose apologized Tuesday for scathing remarks he made about Istanbul, a rival city hoping to host the 2020 Olympics. In an interview published in The New York Times on Friday, Inose...

Though the program to accept nurse candidates from overseas, such as Indonesia and the Philippines, began in fiscal 2008, the pass rate for the national qualification exam among them hovers around 10...

Abenomics, the set of economic policies of the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has drawn global attention. The business outlook of major corporations, especially exporters, has approved o...