The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry is examining how local governments are utilizing artificial intelligence in their operations and plans to support full-scale implementation from the ...

It must be said that the law on a second capital is riddled with problems, as it blatantly reflects the Japan Innovation Party’s desire to make Osaka a “second capital.” ...

This is an era when even junior high and high school students are capable of committing serious cybercrimes if they misuse generative artificial intelligence. Society as a whole must consider how to ...

I’m a woman in my 40s working part-time, and I’m worried about whether my son, who’s a university student, can get his life together.

Former islanders of the northern territories and others took part in an offshore memorial service to offer prayers for their ancestors and family members off the coast of Hokkaido on Saturday.

Typhoon Noul made landfall early on Sunday in southern China, bringing heavy rain and gale-force winds across Guangdong province and neighbouring Hong Kong, with authorities warning that heavy to ...

The Yomiuri ShimbunFireworks burst near Tokyo Skytree in Tokyo on Saturday night. The Yomiuri Shimbun [posttime] JST, [postdate] Colorful fireworks lit up the summer night sky at areas across Japan on ...

The Sanyo Shinkansen line services were suspended between Okayama and Hakata stations for about 40 minutes on Sunday morning after the Mizuho No. 607 train made contact with a person at Hiroshima ...

A shop featuring sweets made from rice koji (malt) and irregular-sized produce opened at a Michi-no-Eki roadside rest stop in Tako, Chiba Prefecture, in May.

I’m a homemaker in my 50s, and my husband, who is the same age as me, is extremely busy with his job. I’m worried he might collapse from overwork.

Israel’s military said it detained over 70 suspects across the occupied West Bank overnight and on Saturday, a day after troops deployed across the territory following violence that left two Israeli ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Russia wanted to bring in 30,000 North Korean troops to take part in its more than four-year-old conflict and was already preparing to ...