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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a condolence message on Tuesday to the bereaved family of former Japanese Prime Minister ...

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

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