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An experimental project started in Japan on Monday to improve cabbage sales by predicting future supplies and prices using satellite data....

The Japanese government on Monday compiled an action plan to address terrorism involving chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive, or CBRNE, materials....

Japan's industry ministry will include in its fiscal 2027 budget request 150 billion yen for an additional investment in Rapidus Corp., which aims to start mass-producing cutting-edge semiconductors, ...

A security camera in Kumamoto Prefecture has filmed the moment an earthquake in the southwestern Japan prefecture caused the ground to rupture and rise, marking only the second time in the world the p...

A cross-party group of Japanese lawmakers arrived in China on Monday for a possible meeting with senior officials from the Chinese Communist Party's International Department....

Japan's transport ministry plans to require both Japan-made and imported vehicles to be equipped with a system to detect when drivers are distracted or fall asleep behind the wheel, ministry officials...

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi emphasized the importance of the International Criminal Court, in a video message to a meeting of Asian and African officials in Tokyo on Monday....

Some Japanese clinics have been advertising private "sleep beauty" treatments on social media and prescribing potentially addictive psychotropic drugs and other medications....

Former Japanese House of Representatives Speaker Tamisuke Watanuki died of old age at a Tokyo medical institution on Tuesday last week. He was 99....

Fukuoka Mayor Soichiro Takashima has said that he would not seek a fifth term in the Nov. 15 election....

Japanese golfer Miyu Yamashita won the CPKC Women's Open wire to wire in Edmonton, Canada, on Sunday, finishing at 23-under-par in total for her second victory in the LPGA Tour this season....

Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Shunichi Mizuoka is set to serve a fourth term as head of the House of Councillors caucus mainly comprising lawmakers of the opposition party....

Fukuoka prefectural assembly head Isao Kurauchi said in a statement Monday that he will resign as a member of the assembly of the southwestern Japan prefecture....

Members of an expert panel of Japan's Justice Ministry have broadly shared the view that certain regulations should be introduced for acts of soliciting prostitutes, currently not subject to punishmen...

Suzuki Motor Corp. unveiled online Monday a prototype of its first electric vehicle with a reference range of 310 kilometers, among the longest for electric minivehicles....

Japan is stepping up diplomatic efforts to ensure free and safe navigation in the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, both critical transport waterways for Middle East crude oil....

Japanese photojournalist Bunyo Ishikawa died of malignant lymphoma at a hospital in Chino, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, on Sunday. He was 88....

A memorial gathering was held in Tokyo on Sunday for those who died in detention in Siberia and elsewhere after being captured by the former Soviet Union following World War II....

The Japanese government has drawn up draft guidelines outlining 150 measures that should be taken to enhance cybersecurity for businesses managing critical infrastructure....

Japanese police Sunday searched a group company of Tobu Railway Co. over Thursday's train accident in Tochigi Prefecture that resulted in the deaths of four workers....

A local painter is supporting reconstruction efforts in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, hit by a powerful earthquake last month, through collaborative works with the popular manga series "Kin...

Japanese skating duo Riku Miura, 24, and Ryuichi Kihara, 34, who won gold in the figure skating pairs event at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, announced their engagement on social media Sunday...

A major earthquake occurred in Ibaraki Prefecture early Sunday morning, rocking eastern Japan areas including Tokyo....

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party is ready to devote its maximum resources to win the Sept. 13 gubernatorial election in the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa....

Japan and India have held the first joint event between their governments focusing on recycling of key minerals at the Japanese Embassy in New Delhi....

The torch relay for the Asian Games, which are scheduled to open on Sept. 19, began Saturday at Nagoya Castle's Ni-no-maru Square in Nagoya, the capital of Aichi Prefecture, central Japan....

Democratic Party for the People lawmakers Yuichiro Tamaki and Mikihiko Hashimoto attended a debate session in Tokyo ahead of the opposition party's Sept. 6 leadership election, whose campaign period s...

The Japanese government will take measures to support tourism in the Kyushu southwestern region including Kumamoto Prefecture, hit hard by last month's massive earthquake, Chief Cabinet Secretary Mino...

A Japanese civic group leads efforts to collect the remains of those who died in the 1942 flooding accident at the Chosei undersea coal mine in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan....

Visiting Japanese Crown Prince Akishino on Friday expressed his sincere respect for the Japanese community in Paraguay....

A memorial event was held Saturday to remember more than 1,400 victims of the sinking of the Tsushima Maru, a Japanese ship torpedoed by a U.S. submarine while evacuating schoolchildren 82 years ago d...

International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane from Japan has said that support from her country will be crucial following a U.S. decision to impose sanctions on her....

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's administration is under fire for what critics say are weak responses to U.S. sanctions on International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane of Japan and to R...

Japan's Finance Ministry is considering setting the assumed interest rate on long-term Japanese government bonds at 3.8pctin its fiscal 2027 budget request, informed sources said Friday....

Japan's Princess Aiko on Friday interacted with people at a medical and welfare facility in the city of Maibara in the western prefecture of Shiga....

Democratic Party for the People head Yuichiro Tamaki vowed Friday to make his party the biggest opposition force in the House of Councillors after the 2028 election for Japan's upper chamber of parlia...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to reshuffle her cabinet and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's executive lineup in mid- or late September, informed sources said Friday....

The organizing committee of the upcoming Asian Games and Asian Para Games in the central Japan city of Nagoya unveiled to the press on Friday dishes to be served at a dining hall for athletes, featuri...

Japan's Justice Ministry on Friday released new guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence in legal businesses, clarifying the scope of services that do not fall under the unauthorized practice ...

Takaichi Mabuchi, founder and honorary chairman of Mabuchi Motor Co., died on Aug. 7 at the age of 93, the company announced Friday....

Police have carried out voluntary questioning of railway lookouts and others to determine the circumstances surrounding a fatal accident in which a limited express train struck workers at a station in...

U.S. sanctions against International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane of Japan have provoked backlash from countries in Europe, with many voicing their support for The Hague-based court....

One person died in a fire that broke out at a shipyard in the central Japan city of Shizuoka on Friday morning....

Japan's core consumer price index in July rose 1.8pctfrom a year earlier, up for 59 months in a row, the internal affairs ministry said Friday....

Japan's Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko paid a courtesy call on Paraguayan President Santiago Pena at the Lopez Palace in Asuncion, the South American country's capital, on Thursday....

Japan's Justice Ministry on Friday executed a 58-year-old man convicted of murdering five people by setting fire to a "pachinko" pinball parlor in the western Japan city of Osaka in 2009, informed sou...

Russia has conducted a missile drill around the northwestern Pacific islands at the center of its territorial dispute with Japan, according to the Russian Pacific Fleet....

A flame-lighting event for the torch relay for the upcoming Asian Games took place in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on Thursday....

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington, which is based in the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, has arrived in the Middle East, the U.S. Central Com...

Most local members of the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan are cautious about a proposed integration of the party and two other opposition parties, the Centrist Reform Alliance and ...