With its challenge to Japan’s conventional ideals of feminine beauty, the bar, which opened in mid-2020, draws about 100 customers on average each day, the majority of them foreign tourists, and has ...

Sanae Takaichi drew criticism for requiring staff to work in the wee hours in a country scarred by “death from overwork.” ...

China criticized Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for meeting with Taiwan officials on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit and her subsequent social media posts about ...

As the Tokyo International Film Festival starts its 2025 edition, chair Ando Hiroyasu is steering the event toward a future that emphasizes Asian cinema discovery, gender equality and cross-cultural ...

TOKYO (AP) — President Donald Trump began one of his busiest days of his Asia trip on Tuesday by warmly greeting the new Japanese prime minister, and taking her with him as he spoke to U.S. troops ...

TOKYO, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Japan's largest labour union group said on Thursday it would seek wage hikes of 5% or more in 2026, aiming for bumper pay raises for the fourth consecutive year to counter ...

Japan's first woman premier, and fifth in as many years, leads a minority government and has a bulging in-tray, not least the scheduled arrival of the US leader next week. But in her first remarks in ...

A woman nervously walking through her home early one morning thought she was being robbed, but after checking the pet camera, she realized her hilarious mistake. The text on a September 25 TikTok ...

Japan got its first woman prime minister on Tuesday after Sanae Takaichi, a China hawk and social conservative, forged an 11th-hour coalition deal. Japan's fifth premier in as many years will lead a ...

Sanae Takaichi, president of the Liberal Democratic Party, attends a talk with Hirofumi Yoshimura, a coleader of the Japan Innovation Party, for a mutual agreement to establish a coalition government ...

The child was injured during an alleged altercation involving suspect Georgeina Hayes and an adult female victim StLucieSheriff/Instagram A 5-month-old suffered a skull fracture after allegedly being ...