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Visiting Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Saturday expressed her intention to deepen cooperation for the free and open Indo-Pacific...
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Vietnamese counterpart, Le Minh Hung, agreed Saturday to position economic security cooperati...
The northeastern Japan town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, declared Saturday that the forest fire that broke out on April 22 has come under c...
A memorial park dedicated to mourning the victims of the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster opened in Fukushima Prefecture,...
Jiro Hamasumi, secretary-general of the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, delivered a speech a...
Psychological and financial hurdles remain high for junior and senior high school girls in buying emergency contraception three months after...
Desperately hoping to stop the yen's rapid depreciation, the Japanese government and the Bank of Japan apparently implemented their first cu...
The government-backed Japan Bank for International Cooperation said Friday it has signed contracts to provide about 2,221 million dollars in...
Tokyo police arrested a 44-year-old man on Friday on suspicion of attempted murder after he allegedly attacked a high school student with a...
Japan started releasing on Friday additional state oil reserves equivalent to about 20 days of domestic consumption, amid crude oil procurem...
A ceremony to remember Minamata disease victims was held in the southwestern Japan city of Minamata on Friday, the 70th anniversary of the o...
West Japan Railway Co., or JR West, announced Friday a capital and business tie-up with the Resona Holdings Inc. group to make its first for...
Japan ranked 62nd among 180 countries in the 2026 World Press Freedom Index, released on Thursday by Reporters Without Borders, or RSF.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi left Japan on Friday afternoon to visit Vietnam and Australia to affirm cooperation in the field of e...
Japan's health ministry will establish a secretariat for the disaster medical assistance team, or DMAT, program in the northernmost prefectu...
A 29-year-old Australian flight instructor and a 24-year-old Japanese student died in a plane crash at an Australian airport on Wednesday, p...
A Japanese female prosecutor who was allegedly sexually assaulted by her male boss in 2018 submitted a resignation letter to her office in O...
Hiroshima Governor Mika Yokota has highlighted the significance of abolishing nuclear weapons, at an event held on the sidelines of a review...
Inflation in central Tokyo slowed to 1.5pctyear-on-year in April from 1.7pctin the previous month, the Japanese internal affairs ministry sa...
Japan announced in New York on Thursday that 115 nations and regions have taken part in a joint statement calling for promoting education on...
Japanese professional tennis star Kei Nishikori said on social media Friday that he will retire from competition at the end of this season.
A Japanese government advisory panel on Thursday approved a plan to raise compulsory automobile liability insurance premiums by 6.2pcton ave...
Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. will scrap its plans to produce electric vehicles at its vehicle assembly plant in Canton, Mississippi,...
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Thursday that it swung into net loss in the fiscal year ended in March due to costs for deco...
Major Japanese airlines ANA Holdings Inc. and Japan Airlines said Thursday that they forecast sharply lower profits for the year ending in M...
Hirohiko Okano, a prominent Japanese tanka poet who served as a poetry selector for the annual "Utakai Hajime" New Year's poetry-reading cer...
Police on Thursday arrested a man for allegedly burning his wife's body in an incinerator at his workplace, Asahiyama Zoo, in the city of As...
Makino Milling Machine Co. said Thursday that Asian investment fund MBK Partners has withdrawn its plan to launch a tender offer for the maj...
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi urged Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian during phone talks Thursday to ensure that all ships, inclu...
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Thursday that the country will be able to secure enough supply of naphtha-based chemical products...
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Thursday that it has appointed Keisuke Yokoo, president of government-affiliated Japan Inves...
Travel bookings for Japan's Golden Week holiday period are still strong, defying concerns over high prices and the Middle East situation.
Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi is planning to visit South Korea in late June to hold talks with his South Korean counterpart, Ah...
A Chinese diplomat pledged to "resolutely prevent Japan from acquiring nuclear weapons" at a review conference of the Nuclear Nonproliferati...
Japan's Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said Thursday that the country's time to take "decisive action" against the yen's rapid depreciati...
The Bank of Japan will continue to mull the timing of the next policy rate increase, after its Policy Board decided Tuesday to keep the rate...
Industrial production in Japan dropped 0.5pctin March from the previous month after seasonal adjustment as chemical makers' output fell beca...
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth expressed support for Japan's plans to increase defense spending in a document submitted ahead of a cong...
The yen, Japanese government bonds and stocks all fell on Thursday morning, following the markets' closure for a national holiday, amid deep...
Major food makers in Japan plan to raise prices for 70 items in May, an 85.4pctdecrease from a year earlier, Teikoku Databank Ltd., a resear...
Business sentiment among small and midsize companies in Japan dropped to its lowest level in over three years in April, affected by material...
A 44-year-old man is on the run after attacking two high school students with a hammer in Fussa in Tokyo on Wednesday and spraying a liquid...
A Chinese maritime survey ship that had been operating without permission in Japan's exclusive economic zone off Ishigaki Island in Okinawa...
The Japanese government said Wednesday that one Japanese national who had been aboard a Japan-related vessel stranded in the Persian Gulf di...
The Japanese government held a ceremony to mark this year's 100th anniversary of the 1926 start of the Showa era at Tokyo's Nippon Budokan h...
The town of Otsuchi in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Iwate lifted evacuation orders for most areas affected by wildfires that began o...
A crude oil tanker owned by Idemitsu Tanker Co., a subsidiary of Japanese oil refiner Idemitsu Kosan Co., passed through the Strait of Hormu...
Japan will seek to play an active role in finding common ground between nuclear and nonnuclear states at a review conference for the Nuclear...
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Wednesday vowed to make every effort to create an environment conducive to wage increases, at her...
The U.S. government is ready to provide maximum support for Japan's planned introduction of its own version of the Committee on Foreign Inve...