The lawmaker told The Asahi Shimbun that a secretary at Kishida’s office delivered gift certificates worth 100,000 yen around the time of the gathering. Another LDP source said 100 certificates ...

He planned to open a tofu shop in Barcelona with his wife, an undertaking that seemed worlds apart from the daily grind of his job with The Asahi Shimbun newspaper and TV news. But Shimizu ...

During the previous administration of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in August last year, The Asahi Shimbun asked survey respondents which political party should be in charge of the next administration.

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said it plans to start producing clean hydrogen using heat from its High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) in Ibaraki Prefecture close to Tokyo by 2028.

Daiki Okai, 29, president of Luup, also told The Asahi Shimbun that a rating system will be used to prevent reckless drivers from renting the motorized scooters. Demerit points will be allocated ...

TAIPEI—In a key security appointment, the former top uniformed officer of the Self-Defense Forces has been appointed as a political affairs consultant to Taiwan's Cabinet, sources said.

YOKOHAMA—Nissan Motor Corp. showcased experiments with self-driving cars on city roads to the media at its headquarters here through March 10. The company aims to develop transportation services ...

Belarus has detained a second Japanese national who was reportedly filming a road, the Japanese Embassy in Belarus announced on Dec. 17. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus notified the ...

We need to remind ourselves of this incident of 90 years ago. --The Asahi Shimbun, March 8 Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a popular daily column that takes up a wide range of topics, including culture ...

A new longevity record of 42 years and seven months has been established in Japan for the short-tailed albatross, a species once so rare it was deemed extinct. The age of the bird was confirmed ...

Hackers affiliated with the North Korean military masterminded the massive theft of bitcoins from a Tokyo-based company, investigations by Japanese and U.S. authorities found. The TraderTraitor ...

Tomoko Akane, the first Japanese president of the ICC, said in an interview with The Asahi Shimbun in Tokyo on Dec. 12 that economic sanctions being discussed in the U.S. Senate would make it ...