Tokyo, Jan. 9 (Jiji Press)--Seven & i Holdings Co. may make a decision as early as May on buyout offers from Canadian ...

Our walk along the Yamanote Line starts at Ōsaki Station, the loop’s southern tip and one of Tokyo’s recently redeveloped districts. This is a part of Tokyo foreigners hardly get to see.

Tokyo, Jan. 18 (Jiji Press)--Japan's two-day unified university entrance examinations started Saturday at 651 venues across the country, with the number of applicants increasing by about 3,200 ...

Tokyo, Jan. 14 (Jiji Press)--The number of corporate bankruptcies with liabilities of 10 million yen or more in Japan last year rose 15.1 pct from the previous year to 10,006, surpassing 10,000 ...

Kobe, Jan. 17 (Jiji Press)--Sunflowers growing in an empty plot of land in the western Japan city of Kobe that was once a home hit by a massive earthquake 30 years ago have spread throughout the ...

London, Jan. 18 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Nippon Foundation said Saturday that it will work with the Scottish Association for Marine Science for conducting a study on "dark oxygen," which can be ...

In the center of the Shimokita Peninsula, in the northernmost reaches of Aomori Prefecture, lies Osorezan (Mount Osore), one of Japan’s most sacred spots. Hito wa shineba oyama sa igu, say the ...

Beijing, Jan. 18 (Jiji Press)--A Chinese woman who came into the spotlight two years ago by claiming on social media to have bought an island in the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa plans ...

Tokyo, Jan. 17 (Jiji Press)--Bonuses paid by major Japanese companies in winter 2024 averaged 891,460 yen, rewriting an all-time high for the first time in five years, the labor ministry said Friday.

Spending by international visitors to Japan surged to ¥8.1 trillion in 2024, smashing the previous year’s record by more than 50%. Preliminary figures published by the Japan Tourism Agency ...

The Japanese government and nuclear power plant operators have long grappled with how to dispose of spent fuel and other high-level radioactive waste. Authorities finally settled on the approach ...

In the October 2024 election for the House of Representatives, an ongoing scandal over financial kickbacks and other improprieties saw the Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner ...