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)--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)--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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kumamoto, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)--While reconstruction efforts have been progressing since a powerful earthquake struck ...

The Japanese government plans to draw up a new defense industry foundation strategy to achieve a virtuous cycle of defense ...

Japanese Ambassador to Russia Akira Muto on Tuesday called for the immediate release of a Japanese journalist detained by ...