Tokyo, Oct. 26 (Jiji Press)--Japan's new Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama on Sunday vowed to "do everything possible" to secure funds to raise the share of the country's defense spending to its gross ...

Tokyo, Oct. 25 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi left for Malaysia on Saturday to attend summit talks ...

Fukushima, Oct. 25 (Jiji Press)--Japanese industry minister Ryosei Akazawa on Saturday visited Tokyo Electric Power Company ...

The political party Nippon Ishin no Kai, now tapped as a potential member of a ruling coalition in the national government, ...

Physician Yasukawa Keigo, who goes by the moniker Doctor Gon, has spent close to three decades caring for the elderly ...

Sociologist Shimoji Lawrence Yoshitaka discusses the often-overlooked diversity within the Japanese population, including ...

A survey in Japan found almost all households feeling the effects of product price rises, especially for rice.

The University of Tokyo rose to twenty-sixth in the Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings for 2026, and was the ...

Tokyo, Oct. 23 (Jiji Press)--The steering committee of Japan's House of Representatives decided Thursday that new Prime ...

Koseki family registers in Japan maintain information about Japanese citizens and their households, providing proof of ...

Tokyo, Oct. 22 (Jiji Press)--Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party ...

The kaki, or persimmon, came to be eaten fresh relatively recently in Japanese history; for centuries before that it was ...