Japan's government has approved a set of bills that would allow nuclear power plants to operate beyond their current 60-year limit.

NHK has learned Japan's government and the Imperial Household Agency are making arrangements for Crown Prince and Princess Akishino to attend the coronation ceremony for Britain's King Charles III in May.

Officials of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government are planning to install shutters and gates at subway station entrances to keep flood water from flowing into tunnels.

Japan's Emperor Naruhito turned 63 on Thursday.

Japan's Finance Ministry says the country's workers and companies are expected to spend 47.5 percent of their income on taxes and social security in the current fiscal year.

NHK has learned that Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will host a spring garden party on May 11.

Japanese manga and anime creator Matsumoto Leiji died of acute heart failure on February 13 at the age of 85.

Visitors to Tokyo's Ueno Zoo have bid a final farewell to Xiang Xiang the giant panda before her departure to China on Tuesday.

Some of Japan's small and medium-sized industrial businesses have been struggling with rocketing energy bills since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Japanese officials say unidentified flying objects spotted in the country's airspace in recent years are strongly suspected to have been Chinese spy balloons.

Japan's foreign minister says the country will explain to the international community its commitment to realize a society that respects diversity.

Japanese astronaut Wakata Koichi has completed his second spacewalk outside the International Space Station.