Kenshi Yonezu ’s “IRIS OUT” tops the Billboard Japan Hot 100 for the fifth consecutive week, on the chart released Oct. 22.

Sanae Takaichi is now Japan’s first female prime minister. But more important than her gender might be her taste for ...

Sanae Takaichi is the first woman chosen to serve as Japan's prime minister. She favors a strong military, a strong economy — ...

For most of her life, Sanae Takaichi has loved heavy metal. As Japan’s first female leader, she has many reasons to reach for her sticks ...

Sanae Takaichi, a fan of Iron Maiden, had an improbable rise to power. Like her mentor, Shinzo Abe, she is expected to lead ...

Tomorrow x Together have announced that their third Japanese album, ‘Starkissed,’ is set to be released on December 12.

The lyrics of traditional Okinawan songs were found to record past climate and geological history of the Ryukyu Islands (21st ...

A lifelong heavy metal enthusiast, 63-year-old Takaichi once played drums in a college band. As Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) rallies behind Sanae Takaichi to become the country's next ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Japanese boy band WEST. is going global. The legacy J-pop septet from ...

Ryosuke Takashima, the 28-year-old mayor of Ashiya, western Japan. (Kyodo) NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- The 28-year-old mayor of the western Japan city of Ashiya has been picked as one of Time magazine's 100 ...

A cargo ship carrying foreign trade containers drives out of Qingdao Port in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, on May 12. YU FANGPING/FOR CHINA DAILY China strongly objects to Japan placing ...