Yomiuri Editorial

The trend away from reading books is said to be serious, but many people must want to read books if given the opportunity. Why not forget the hustl...

The United States and China have alternated between cooperation and competition across the Pacific Ocean. Given the intensifying U.S.-China confron...

Wage growth has been sluggish, and economic growth also is stagnant.

While the working hours of teachers in Japan are being shortened, the situation in which they work the longest hours in the world has not changed.<...

Oct. 24 marks 80 years since the United Nations was founded. There is an urgent need to rebuild the multilateral cooperation system in light of the...

There is no end to the problems surrounding minpaku private lodging services that rent houses and apartments to foreign tourists and others as acco...

With the arrival of a “world with interest rates,” business scale now determines profitability even for regional banks. It is crucial to support re...

Japan’s first female prime minister has appeared. Will this be an opportunity to break through the sense of stagnation enveloping the nation? Even ...

It is commendable that the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party have now agreed to form a new coalition government and put in pl...

Given the results of the city assembly election, it is simply impossible to believe that the incumbent mayor can regain the trust of the people and...

A status of residence originally created to help Japan’s economic growth by accepting entrepreneur-minded foreign nationals is being abused.

The 2025 harvest of the staple food rice is expected to increase to its highest level in nine years because of rice farmers’ efforts to boost produ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. has announced that it will consider decommissioning the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa...

Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama overcame the so-called 1955 system, in which conservatives and reformists were locked in a fierce rivalry, ...

Criminal groups connected via social media, information about which is difficult to ascertain, pose a significant threat to public safety. Police n...