A NUMBER of foreign service officers and personnel are grumbling over President Ferdinand Marcos's recent executive order, which supposedly increased their overseas allowance. Sources who declined to ...
Yet, traditional gender roles and male favoritism persist in modern-day Japan. In the global gender gap index, Japan ranked 118th out of 146 nations covered in 2024, placing the East Asian country ...
High urbanization and the emergence of megacities in Japan, such as Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya, have prompted the development of a highly efficient and potent public transport system, which is of ...
Shigeru Ishiba was formally reelected as Japan's prime minister on Monday after a rare runoff vote in parliament that his ruling coalition no longer controls, setting the stage for a minority ...
11, 2024, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) Yoshihiko Noda, center, head of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, attends a special parliamentary session of the lower house for parliamentary ...
The Pasay Declaration on Women ... in the country. The Japanese Embassy signed an agreement with BARMM to support maternal and reproductive health. The United Nations Population Fund will implement ...
Japan said it stepped into the foreign exchange market twice last quarter, as speculation grows that more moves may be brewing given the recent bout of renewed yen weakness. The Finance Ministry ...
Ishirō Honda's momentous 1954 monster film was born out of a national tragedy in Japan. It has a bleak message for humanity that goes beyond cinematic spectacle. He will now navigate hostilities ...
An unidentified man was killed while two others were injured in a fire that hit a residential area in Pasay City before noon Monday. The body of the victim was found under the debris after the fire, ...
Japan launched a flagship H3 rocket carrying a Defense Ministry communications satellite Monday, its third consecutive successful liftoff following a botched debut in 2023. The H3 series is the ...
Bonoan, Japanese Ambassador Kazuya Endo, and Consul General Sang Seung-Man from the South Korean Embassy, representing Ambassador Lee Sang-Hwa. Officials from partner organizations were also in ...