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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Tokyo, Oct. 27 (Jiji Press)--New Japanese Justice Minister Takashi Yamashita expressed eagerness in a recent interview to ...