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Under “Cool Biz,” salarymen and government workers don short-sleeved shirts in the summer as offices are kept above 82 degrees Fahrenheit to save energy.

Kohei Saito says the country should seize this moment of demographic and economic challenge to reinvent itself through “degrowth communism.”

The Japanese subsidiary of Warner Bros. criticized what it called insensitive promotion of ‘Barbie’ by the company’s headquarters.

Hideji Suzuki says Japan failed him during his six years in a Chinese prison. China’s recent arrest of a Japanese citizen is again testing Tokyo’s...

The International Olympic Committee was already struggling to find hosts for the Winter Games. Sapporo’s flailing 2030 bid has added another headache.

A young man licked a soy sauce bottle in a restaurant, in one of several cases that have provoked a national wave of revulsion.

Prosecutors said the company and five others conspired to evade the public bidding process for test events, part of a widening investigation into corruption surrounding...

Japan’s first e-sports high school thought it would turn out pro gamers. Instead, it attracted an unexpected demographic.

Kazuo Ueda is set to replace the longtime governor who helped put the country on an unorthodox monetary path. Will he change course?

The modest expansion in the fourth quarter of 2022 was driven by a recovery in private consumption, as well as spending by visitors.