The policy debate over free high school tuition is drawing considerable attention in Japan. Compulsory education ends in junior high school but the high school enrolment rate already reached nearly 98 ...

More than 450 people are suing Japan’s government and seeking damages of 1,000 yen ($6) each, alleging one of the world’s top greenhouse gas emitters isn’t doing enough to combat global warming. The ...

TOKYO (AP) — Outside a train station near Tokyo, hundreds of people cheer as Sohei Kamiya, head of the surging nationalist party Sanseito, criticizes Japan’s rapidly growing foreign population. As ...