Japan's Supreme Court has ruled that performances by music school students are not subject to copyright payments, while copyright holders may charge for musical works used by teachers in music classes.
This is the first finalized court ruling in Japan regarding copyright fees in music schools.
Japanese Economic Revitalization Minister Yamagiwa Daishiro has handed in his resignation to Prime Minister Kishida Fumio after a series of revelations about his links with the religious group previously known as the Unification Church.
Yamagiwa met Kishida on Monday evening to express his intention to step down.
Observations made by Japanese researchers indicate that unreleased stress energy at an undersea trench off northern Japan could trigger a massive earthquake and tsunami.
Researchers from Tohoku and Hokkaido universities and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology have been monitoring the Chishima Trench zone off the coast of Nemuro City in eastern Hokkaido.
Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister Yamagiwa Daishiro has decided to step down following a series of revelations about his links to the former Unification Church.
A major festival has returned to Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto after its procession had been canceled for two years in a row due to the coronavirus pandemic.
About 2,000 people paraded along a route from the Kyoto Imperial Palace to the Heian Jingu Shrine as part of the Jidai Matsuri, or the Festival of the Ages, on Saturday.
Japan's health ministry says it confirmed 1,735 new cases of the coronavirus in Tokyo on Monday.
The daily tally is up 147 from a week ago.
A high court in Japan has upheld a lower court ruling that found the leader of a political party critical of NHK guilty of illegally acquiring viewer data and obstructing business of the public broadcaster.
The Tokyo High Court on Monday sentenced NHK Party leader Tachibana Takashi to two and a half years in prison, suspended for four years. He had appealed the suspended sentence imposed by a district court.
A major festival has returned to Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto after its procession had been canceled for two years in a row due to the coronavirus pandemic.
About 2,000 people paraded along a route from the Kyoto Imperial Palace to the Heian Jingu Shrine as part of the Jidai Matsuri, or the Festival of the Ages, on Saturday.
Japan's Justice Ministry has drawn up a set of draft proposals to revise the Penal Code to better deal with sexual crimes.
Ministry officials presented the draft to a panel of the Legislative Council on Monday. It spells out new specific elements for what comprise sex offenses.
Japan's top government spokesperson says it is important for Japan and China to make efforts to build constructive and stable bilateral ties. Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno Hirokazu made the comment a day after Chinese President Xi Jinping secured a third term as the Communist Party's leader.
Matsuno said the relationship between the two countries has a range of possibilities, but they face many tough challenges and pending issues.
Japan's top government spokesperson has condemned North Korea following South Korea's announcement that a North Korean ship crossed the de facto inter-Korean maritime border.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno Hirokazu told a news conference on Monday that North Korea's series of provocations can never be tolerated.
Japan is set to roll out coronavirus vaccines for children aged six months to four years.
The health ministry will begin to distribute the vaccines to municipalities on Monday. Tokyo's Minato Ward says it will offer inoculations starting the following day.
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has pledged to take action to build ties with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to resolve the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by the North.
Kishida was speaking at a rally organized on Sunday by relatives of those abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s.
Japan's Emperor and Empress have attended the opening ceremony of art and culture festivals in Okinawa Prefecture.
Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako appeared at the opening ceremony for the national cultural festival and the national art and cultural festival for people with disabilities in Ginowan City on Sunday.