Japan's Defense Ministry has launched the Joint Operations Command, a permanent 240-member organization to centrally command the Self-Defense Forces ( ...

Nakano Ward and Setagaya Ward in Tokyo will allow same-sex couples to ... change on Oct. 17 and Nakano Ward followed suit on Oct. 24. Since they will implement their new residence registration ...

Another board, in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, was plastered with 24 posters advertising the name of an adult entertainment shop. Tokyo police warned the people responsible ― the candidate and a ...

Ward governments in Tokyo are ramping up the war to stop the ... For a one-year period from September 2019, those organizations spent 24 million yen ($159,000) on a massive extermination effort ...

A hospital in Tokyo’s Sumida Ward opened a “baby hatch” for parents to anonymously leave newborn infants in the care of social welfare agencies. The baby hatch at San-ikukai Hospital is the second ...