A parade of European warships and military aircraft passed through Japan over the summer, amid a growing awareness that the ...

Otaki, Nagano Pref., Sept. 27 (Jiji Press)--A memorial service was held Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the eruption ...

Sendai, Miyagi Pref., Sept. 27 (Jiji Press)--Shareholders of Japanese regional banking group Jimoto Holdings Inc. on Friday ...

Tokyo, Sept. 26 (Jiji Press)--Japanese beverage company Suntory Holdings Ltd. said Thursday that it will raise the monthly ...

Born in Tottori Prefecture in 1957, Ishiba Shigeru, the new president of the Liberal Democratic Party and Japan’s next prime minister, was not a career politician from the start. After graduating from ...

Tokyo, Sept. 26 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. on Thursday started the fifth round of the fiscal ...

The government released a prefecture-by-prefecture ranking of the wage gap between men and women. Tochigi Prefecture had the largest gap, with women’s wages only 70% of men’s wages. Nationwide, Tokyo ...

"A few members expressed the opinion that, with the year-on-year rate of increase in the CPI (consumer price index) exceeding ...

Shizuoka, Sept. 26 (Jiji Press)--A Japanese district court Thursday acquitted an 88-year-old man in a high-profile retrial ...

Tokyo, Sept. 27 (Jiji Press)--The leadership election of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party headed to a runoff between ...