Kanako Takahara

Campaigning for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's presidential race in September essentially kicked off Thursday, a day after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a surprise announcement that he will not be seeking reelection.

The Kyushu region is bracing for the likely landfall of the slow-moving but powerful Typhoon Shanshan, with heavy rain already impacting a wide area of Japan and causing a landslide in Aichi Prefecture.

Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito on Friday told a powerful investigative panel that he may have been a “strict boss,” which he described as his working

Nearly 44 years after the original trial, former pro boxer Iwao Hakamata — holder of the world record for serving longest time on death row — is exonerated

Ishiba, who has also served as party secretary-general, won the LDP presidential election on Friday, defeating economic security minister Sanae Takaichi in a runoff vote

Nihon Hidankyo, an atomic bomb survivors group based in Hiroshima and Nagasaki prefectures, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its

Efforts are being made to allow the world's longest-held death row inmate, who has been exonerated over a 1966 murder case, to vote in the Oct. 27 general election.

Such a scenario would require Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to seek a third party to join the coalition.

The projected shift in power will require Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to consider a third party to join the LDP-Komeito coalition.

Tsunehisa Katsumata, who served as chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co. during the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and nuclear meltdowns, died on Oct. 21, Tepco said Thursday. He was 84.