Prime Minister Fumio Kishida fired a key aide who made disparaging remarks about sexual minorities. Speaking off the record with reporters on Feb. 3, Masayoshi Arai, who served as an executive ...

Fumio Kishida was elected as Japan’s newest prime minister by both the Lower and Upper houses of the Diet on Oct. 4. He is the 35th prime minister in the postwar period. At around 1:25 p.m ...

Prosecutors on Monday demanded a 15-year prison term for a man accused of attempted murder after a pipe bomb attack two years ago that targeted an election event attended by then Prime Minister Fumio ...

Public prosecutors demanded Monday that a 25-year-old man accused of attempted murder and other charges for throwing an explosive at then-Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during an election campaign ...

The church sits on a side street just a few minutes’ walk from Tokyo’s bustling Shibuya district, home to one of the world’s ...

Once upon a time, everybody tuned into the TV detective drama series “Taiyo ni Hoero!” (literally, “Roar at the sun”) every Friday. This vastly popular prime time show aired from 1972 to ...

In the first decades of the 20th century, a new generation of print artists broke from existing traditions in Japanese printmaking to bring new energy to the traditional prints previously produced in ...