Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s administration is pushing to quickly stamp out the country’s longstanding culture of certifying important documents with official “hanko” personal seals.

The central government has resigned itself to realizing that its effort to pry "hanko" out of the public's hands is unlikely to succeed anytime soon. So, it has decided to keep allowing the use ...

Yoshichika son of Yoshiie who started a revolt Yoriie (1182–1204), son of Yoritomo, and 2nd shōgun of the Kamakura Shogunate Ichiman (1198-1203), son of Yoriie, murdered on the orders of the Hojo clan ...

StarsToshirô Yanagiba Motoya Izumi Atsuro Watabe The story of the fortunes of the Hojo clan in the 13th century focussing on the relationship between two brothers disputing the clan heirship after the ...

the last remaining member of the Hojo clan. During the final days of the shogunate, Tokiyuki's family was eradicated by ...

Hanko noted that Europe’s productivity rate had stood at 95pc of the United States’ in 1995, but had since fallen to 80pc. He added that the EU’s scientific output had fallen by 8pc in the past ...

In a video statement, Balazs Hanko said it was “unacceptable” that central and eastern Europe had one-tenth of the resources for research per inhabitant compared to western Europe. He said it was ...