Japanese nutritionist and longevity expert Michiko Tomioka shares her favorite “medicinal multigrain rice” breakfast to start ...

The Okinawa diet emphasizes vegetables and legumes while limiting grains like noodles and white rice. Find out what foods may ...

Last year, when Prince Regent Hirohito opened the Imperial Diet, an attempt was made on his life (TIME, Jan. 7). This year, when the Prince was driven through the streets, the crowds were forced ...

Researchers have shed light on the dieting habits of 'Blue Zone' residents in a bid to help people live past 100 years old ...

Even with a minority government, deliberative debate cannot be realized unless the prime minister himself lays out the ...

Japan's Diet has enacted a supplementary budget bill ... the Japan Innovation Party and the Democratic Party for the People, voted for the bill. The opposition Constitutional Democratic Party ...

Tokyo, Jan. 9 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government plans to convene the Diet, the country's parliament, for this year's ordinary session starting Jan. 24, it was learned Thursday. The plan was ...

The preamble to the Constitution starts with these words: “We, the Japanese people, acting through our duly elected representatives in the National Diet ...” If a flaw in the electoral system ...

Itooka was born on May 23, 1908, in the commercial hub of Osaka — four months before the Ford Model T automobile was launched ...

An extraordinary parliamentary session will likely begin on Nov 28 to allow for deliberation on a supplementary budget needed to fund new inflation-relief measures proposed by the government of ...

(Mainichi/Akihiro Hirata) Amid ongoing price hikes in Japan, it is necessary to ease tax burdens on people struggling with ... the plan being amended in the Diet to be convened at the beginning ...