The director Miyazaki Hayao and other leading anime creators have a surprising number of connections to Nagano in central ...

Despite administrative efforts to cut overtime, a recent survey finds that unreduced workloads mean most schoolteachers in ...

A business mission led by Ken Kobayashi, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has begun a week-long visit ...

New York, Oct. 27 (Jiji Press)--A U.N. General Assembly committee adopted by majority vote a Japan-led resolution seeking the ...

Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)--The bereaved family of a Kurdish man holding Turkish nationality who died in custody at a Tokyo police station has sued the Tokyo metropolitan government and the clinic ...

Hiroshima, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)--Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial ...

Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)--Japan's new agriculture minister, Arata Takebe, has said that thorough "scientific discussions" must be held on a plan to lift the ban on imports of fresh potatoes from ...

Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)--Japan’s agriculture ministry plans to buy back an additional 100,000 tons of rice from the ...

Shipping company Nippon Yusen K.K., power and energy firm Jera Co., Imabari Shipbuilding Co. and four other Japanese ...

Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a cyberattack that recently hit Japan's GMO Internet Inc. after being ...

Whether to make a work interval system mandatory has become a key issue as the Japanese government considers revising working ...

The LDP and its coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party, submitted to the special Diet session that ended in July a ...