There are many repeat visitors to Japan from East Asia, including especially Hong Kong. More than 70% of Hong Kong tourists ...

Agriculture expert Yamashita Kazuhito argues that the summer 2024 rice shortages in Japan were the result of government ...

Ishiba is then seen launching his new cabinet Monday night. Fresh faces for the cabinet are likely to include Keisuke Suzuki ...

Heavy rain mainly hit the city of Nago and the villages of Kunigami, Higashi and Ogimi. In Higashi, 48-hour rainfall until 11 a.m. Sunday totaled 637.5 millimeters, a record high for the area.

At the same time, however, Onodera noted that annual income tax revenue would drop by 7 trillion and 8 trillion yen if the income threshold separating income tax payers and nonpayers is raised to 1.78 ...

Close attention will likely be paid to whether participants at key multilateral meetings later this month can find common ...

Tokyo, Nov. 10 (Jiji Press)--Akira Kawasaki, a senior official of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ...

Kunisaki, Oita Pref., Nov. 9 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako visited a facility to grow young fish ...

Sao Paulo, Nov. 9 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. will invest 1.45 billion dollars in Mexico to expand truck production, Mexico's ministry of economy has said. The amount represents the total ...

Tokyo, Nov. 9 (Jiji Press)--The Chiba Lotte Marines, a Japanese professional baseball team, said Saturday that it has ...

Tokyo, Nov. 9 (Jiji Press)--The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a heavy rain emergency warning for the island town of ...

A hot summer and warm autumn weather means that red foliage in particular will arrive very late in Japan this year.