Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to dissolve the lower house of Parliament soon for a snap election to seek the public's mandate for her policies.

Reforms meant to boost local autonomy have been pursued for many years under the slogan “what can be done locally should be ...

Nurse John breaks down his five-year rise from frontline nurse to global comedy headliner on the 'Comedy Means Business' ...

Japanese culture is part of the attraction for travellers, but at times it can feel like there’s a lot to learn — here’s how ...

Facing high employee turnover and an aging population, nursing homes have increasingly turned to robots to complete a variety of care tasks, but few researchers have explored how these technologies ...

Private nursing homes within Japan's capital often have a move-in cost of more than 10 million yen (about $64,140), a recent ...

Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama and health minister Kenichiro Ueno agreed Wednesday to raise medical service fees by 2.22% in fiscal 2026, the first increase in 12 years. Katayama and Ueno agreed to ...

Bybit will begin phasing out services for residents of Japan from 2026, introducing gradual account restrictions as it moves to comply with the country’s regulatory requirements, the cryptocurrency ...

The Saitama District Public Prosecutors Office has decided to have a 22-year-old man arrested on suspicion of killing two elderly women in October at the nursing home where he used to work, undergo a ...

Microsoft 365 services in Japan and China have been fully restored after a widespread outage disrupted essential tools like Outlook and Teams. A routing fault within Microsoft's infrastructure caused ...

Japan's S&P Global Services PMI rose to 53.2 in November 2025, slightly exceeding the flash estimate (53.1) and signaling the eighth straight month of expansion. This growth was primarily fueled by ...

A small group of BYU nursing students traveled to Japan this summer with professor Ryan Rasmussen, graduate program coordinator Craig Nuttall and visiting faculty Hiromi Tobe to visit the Ishikawa ...