Neither rain nor strict measures against overcrowding could keep people away from the annual Halloween street party in Shibuya, Tokyo.

Some Halloween costumes transform ordinary people into fantasy characters. But a social media trend in Japan has people trying instead to capture mundane situations from everyday life. So, instead of ...

With a Halloween night filled with terror approaching you might be stuck for choice between ghosts, ghouls and goblins, but ...

This dissolution, which came later in the afternoon and just eight days after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba took office, ...

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Oct. 15 (UPI) --The Japanese Diet is scheduled to vote on the nation's next prime minister on Tuesday, which has political parties angling to gain support for their preferred candidates. Sanae ...

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TOKYO, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Sanae Takaichi's bid to become Japan's first female prime minister was thrown into doubt on Friday when her ruling party's junior coalition partner quit. The Liberal ...

Nikkei 225 hits new record high, rising 6.5% since 23 September 2025 amid optimism over Japan’s incoming Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi. Expansionary fiscal policy expected, with higher government ...

TOKYO — Japan’s embattled governing party has a new leader: former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line conservative who is poised to become the country’s first female prime minister ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s embattled governing party now has its new leader, former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line conservative who is poised to become the country’s first female ...