Japan Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Friday that he would skip next week's meeting of finance leaders from the Group ...

What might surprise some readers is that the cliché of Japan's national diet being the model of healthy eating is a little inaccurate and out of date. "Professor Kentaro Murakami (of the ...

Last week the Japanese Diet gathered for its 1937 session and called on the carpet before Japan’s politicians were Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita and War Minister General Count Juichi Terauchi.

A 150-day regular session of Japan's parliament will begin on Jan 24, the top government spokesman said Tuesday, with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba set to seek opposition support in Diet deliberations ...

Japan's Cabinet approved amendments to the Act on the Promotion of Information Processing and the Act on Special Accounts on ...

Japan’s salt reduction efforts have lowered sodium intake over decades, but levels remain high, prompting economic modeling ...

Joseon-era palace signboard to be revealed this month is latest repatriation from Japan Of the artifacts that Korea has yet ...

Lawsuits have been instituted at appellate courts and their local branches around Japan, demanding that ... duly elected representatives in the National Diet ...” If a flaw in the electoral ...

Delegate Kiyoko Miki, 27, the Japanese Diet’s glamor girl, is somewhat bucktoothed, but Japanese connoisseurs say she has “something of the siren in her.” Explaining her election in a hotly ...

At the opening of a 150-day Diet session, Ishiba said he wants to transform Japan into a more "sustainable" and "independent" nation, while underscoring the need to monitor the changing global ...

For most of the last seventy years, Japan’s political parties ... In 2007, a bill was introduced in the Diet to create procedures for holding a national referendum, spearheaded by the LDP.