Insults are recognized when someone "openly" denigrates another person. On defamation carried out by direct messages, which ...

Tokyo, Feb. 10 (Jiji Press)--Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average rewrote its all-time closing high for the second ...

Tokyo, Feb. 10 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Justice Minister Hiroshi Hiraguchi said Tuesday that his ministry will set up a panel ...

Miho Takagi, a Japanese speed skater who won Olympic gold in Beijing 2022, clinched the bronze medal in the women's 1,000 ...

Tokyo, Feb. 9 (Jiji Press)--A group of lawyers filed a lawsuit Monday to nullify the results of Sunday's House of ...

The Japanese public holiday National Foundation Day is observed on February 11 each year. It has its origins in celebrations ...

The average price of a condominium rose throughout the Tokyo metropolitan area in 2025.

The Centrist Reform Alliance is at a crossroads over whether it can regain its initial momentum after the party saw its seats ...

Tokyo, Feb. 10 (Jiji Press)--Prudential Life Insurance Co. said Tuesday that it has set up a third-party committee to investigate widespread fraud by its employees targeting customers. "We'll fully ...

Tokyo, Feb. 10 (Jiji Press)--The number of social media posts referring to national security and constitution revisions rocketed toward the end of the official campaign period for Sunday's election ...

Washington, Feb. 9 (Jiji Press)--Following the Japanese ruling Liberal Democratic Party's landslide victory in Sunday's House of Representatives election, the United States plans to enhance ...

More than a century ago, Japan enacted a Peace Preservation Law that became a tool of state control. Hishiya Ryōichi and his fellow art students in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, were imprisoned under this ...