The price of Japan-grown rice is soaring due to high inflation, low farm yields and a growing tourism sector. Japan is facing ...

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has assembled a top-level task force to investigate the ongoing rice crisis. He is ...

Japanese 2024 births dipped below 700,000 for the first time, according to government data released Wednesday. Births dropped ...

EDWARD FISHMAN is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and the author of ...

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SEOUL, South Korea—Winning a tense election that capped off months of political turmoil, new South Korean President Lee Jae-myung described his victory as the start of the country’s return to normalcy ...

THE current version of President Donald Trump’s centerpiece tax and spending bill would winnow the amount of renewable energy capacity the US adds over the next decade, according to a report released ...

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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition announced Wednesday that Legionella bacteria had been detected at very ...