The parties aim to enact a bill to scrap the tax at an extraordinary session of parliament expected to be convened in autumn.

The public doesn’t know what it wants — other than “not this” — so indecision by the LDP and other parties is understandable.

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The quake off Russia's remote Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami up to 4 meters across the Pacific and sparked evacuations ...

The reactor at Hokkaido Electric Power's plant is the 18th to gain approval from the Nuclear Regulation Authority since the ...

The amount of 2024 rice shipped from producers to major buyers dealing with farmers fell by 340,000 metric tons from the ...

The guidelines prohibit companies like Google and Apple from using data obtained through their operating systems to develop ...

Emperor Naruhito thanked Micronesian President Wesley Simina for visiting Fukushima Prefecture in March to observe the ...

Videos posted to social media provide some of the most detailed depictions yet of the sectarian bloodshed that erupted Syria ...

After a series of major scandals in recent years, Japan’s TV industry appears to be growing more sensitive to issues of ...