The possibilities of holding the same-day elections and expanding the ruling coalition, which currently consists of the ...

US President Donald Trump has packed his new cabinet with China hawks and threatened punitive tariffs, but his strategic ...

Tokyo, March 31 (Jiji Press)--Major food and beverage makers are planning markups for 4,225 products in Japan in April, ...

News; Japan Begins to Take Bids in 2nd Auction of Reserve Rice; Japan Begins to Take Bids in 2nd Auction of Reserve Rice.

Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Pref., March 31 (Jiji Press)--The Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatics team will make a ...

Tokyo, March 31 (Jiji Press)--The Special Committee on Political Reform of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of ...

Beginning 1 p.m. the same day, women can anonymously drop off their babies up to four weeks old round the clock at a place in ...

Yoshitake Shinsuke is one of Japan’s best-loved picture book creators. A traveling show featuring his art returns to Tokyo ...

“Lacquer art might be called the decorative expression of light. The combination of the shining black lacquer and the lustrous gold is a perfect way to convey radiance.” Lacquerware, produced ...

The International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons (IGEP), which discussed ways to realize a ...

An online survey conducted by Teikoku Databank in early March 2025 found that 63.6% of the companies surveyed allow female employees to use their maiden names in the workplace, while 6.9% are ...

Tokyo, March 27 (Jiji Press)--Masahiro Shinoda, a film director known for his unique Japanese aesthetic style, died of ...