Tokyo, Dec. 6 (Jiji Press)--East Japan Railway Co., or JR East, said Friday that it has applied for government approval to ...

Sake exports have been growing against the backdrop of increased global interest in traditional washoku cuisine. Active ...

Washington, Dec. 5 (Jiji Press)--U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will visit Japan next week, a Pentagon press secretary ...

Tokyo, Dec. 4 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Wednesday he is still committed to revising the Japan ...

David McCall, international president of the United Steelworkers labor union, issued a statement Tuesday welcoming U.S.

Japan's average score for math among elementary school fourth graders fell 2 points from the previous test to 591, remaining ...

London, Dec. 4 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Panasonic Corp. has started a test run of facilities installed at a microwave oven plant ...

Tokyo, Dec. 3 (Jiji Press)--The number of electric kick scooter traffic violation cases handled by police in Japan remains ...

Tokyo, Dec. 3 (Jiji Press)--Nippon Steel Corp. on Tuesday renewed its call for understanding for its plan to acquire United ...

Tokyo, Dec. 3 (Jiji Press)--Japan's revised real gross domestic product is projected to show an annualized increase of 1.0 pct in the July-September period, exceeding the 0.9 pct rise in a ...

I visited train stations around Japan that had adopted melodies as a strategy for local revitalization. I wrote about 18 of them in my book Eki mero monogatari (Tales of Train Station Melodies ...

Tokyo, Dec. 2 (Jiji Press)--Opposition party Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party) on Monday launched a new executive team under leader Hirofumi Yoshimura. Former Foreign Minister Seiji ...