A right-wing parliamentary supermajority is paving the way for Tokyo to amend its post-war pacifist constitution.

Japan's economy lost momentum in the January-March quarter from the previous three months over sluggish capital expenditure, revised gross domestic product (GDP) data showed on Monday, pointing to challenges ahead due to the Middle East conflict.

Japan are yet to reach the quarter-finals of the World Cup Get the lowdown on every team at the 2026 World Cup. Here we take a closer look at Japan. What can I expect from Japan? Japan showcased their potential with impressive wins on the British Isles in March.

The Dutch, quarter-finalists in 2022 and ranked seventh in the world by FIFA, will be favourites to progress. Their biggest challenge is likely to come from Japan, who became the first side to secure their place at the tournament in March last year after breezing through their qualifying group.

Netherlands have the most stars. Sweden might've the best player. But Japan might have the team to do the impossible this summer.

Japanese stocks are set to fall, led by tech shares, after strong US jobs data fueled expectations that the Federal Reserve will keep rates higher for longer, sparking a selloff in AI-related shares on Wall Street.

On the afternoon of the 6th, a monument unveiling ceremony for the "Japan-Korea Friendship and East Asian Peace (日韓友好 東洋平和)" monument, commemorating a Japanese national from Gochi Prefecture who preserved independence fighter Ahn Jung-geun and his posthumous calligraphy,

The Japanese government has announced a relocation scheme under which families could be paid up to ¥3,000,000 (around £14,000) to move to the countryside