A survey in Japan found that 84% of Japanese teenagers ate rice almost every day.

A parade of European warships and military aircraft passed through Japan over the summer, amid a growing awareness that the ...

Tokyo, Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)--A rally to call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip was held in Tokyo on Saturday, ahead of the first anniversary Monday of the start of the large-scale armed ...

Tokyo, Sept. 30 (Jiji Press)--The new leaders of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its partner, Komeito, signed a ...

Tokyo, Oct. 3 (Jiji Press)--Japan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will announce, in his first policy speech at parliament Friday, a plan to double subsidies for local revitalization on an ...

Kyoto, Oct. 1 (Jiji Press)--A live kidney transplant between a same-sex couple has been performed for the first time at Kyoto ...

Kubota Corp.'s online ceremony was joined by 284 people who have secured informal job offers from the agricultural machinery ...

Wajima/Suzu, Ishikawa Pref., Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)--The leaders of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Komeito, the junior member of the ruling bloc, separately visited ...

Tokyo, Oct. 4 (Jiji Press)--Eleven Japanese nationals and five foreigners have fled Lebanon for Jordan aboard a Japanese Air Self-Defense Force C-2 transport aircraft, the Japanese government said ...

How Will Japan Achieve Challenging New Emissions Targets? In May 2024, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry began deliberating the nation’s Seventh Strategic Energy Plan.

Tokyo, Oct. 3 (Jiji Press)--New Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel agreed Thursday to further strengthen their countries' alliance. Meeting at the ...

The government released a prefecture-by-prefecture ranking of the wage gap between men and women. Tochigi Prefecture had the largest gap, with women’s wages only 70% of men’s wages. Nationwide, Tokyo ...