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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Los Angeles, Nov. 8 (Jiji Press)--Late Japanese music legend Ryuichi Sakamoto's final solo piano concert work "Opus" is on ...

Tokyo, Nov. 9 (Jiji Press)--The condition of hospitalized Japanese Princess Yuriko, 101, has deteriorated, officials of the ...

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

At a meeting among parliamentary groups in the Lower House, they also agreed to name Koichiro Genba of the main opposition ...