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 ...

Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)--More than 90 pct of bicycle users said they had felt unsafe while riding on roads shared with automobiles, a survey by a Tokyo-based bicycle parking lot operator has found ...

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)--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 ...

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

Buddhist statues in Japan have a history going back to the early seventh century CE, when Buddhism was brought to the country ...

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

The twentieth century brought fresh focuses on a number of different audiences in the manga field. One of these was shōjo ...

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