Sanrio Co. will open a museum about its history as well as its founder and honorary chairman Shintaro Tsuji, 98, next April ...

Hokkaido Gov. Naomichi Suzuki’s decision to approve the restart of a reactor at Hokkaido Electric Power Co.’s Tomari nuclear ...

A steel tower atop a building in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, was damaged in Monday’s strong earthquake, prompting the ...

South Korea’s top court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by Nippon Steel Corp. in a lawsuit filed by people connected with a ...

Bolivian law enforcement officials on Wednesday arrested former President Luis Arce as part of a corruption investigation, opening an uncertain chapter in the country’s politics a month after the ...

The government and the ruling coalition have entered the final stage of talks on expanding and introducing corporate tax ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said he and European leaders discussed proposals to end the war in Ukraine in “pretty strong terms” Wednesday, adding that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “has to be ...

For earned income such as wages, the combined income tax and local inhabitant tax rate rises with income, peaking at 55%. By contrast, financial income from sources such as capital gains from stock ...

Nissan Motor Co. has signed an agreement to partner with British startup Wayve Technologies Ltd. to mass-produce autonomous ...

Two Nobel Prize winners from Japan received their medals and diplomas from Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf at the awards ...

The government plans to double the number of staff at a government-affiliated body that works to confirm the safety of ...

Following the Supreme Court ruling in June this year that the significant reduction in welfare benefits over three years starting in 2013 was illegal, the government has finalized relief measures.