The price of newly harvested rice has surged 48 percent from a year earlier to the highest level in 31 years, reflecting a ...

The number of foreign nationals residing in Japan reached a record high of over 3.5 million in the first of 2024, government ...

Seven organizations in Hiroshima Prefecture for hibakusha, or atomic bomb survivors, held a joint press conference at ...

Ukyo Shuto singled in a fourth-inning tiebreaking run and the SoftBank Hawks booked their first Japan Series berth in four ...

Former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the upcoming Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament in Tokyo due to a lower ...

Ohashi, whose retirement press conference coincided with her 29th birthday, swam her final race last month at the National ...

Amid a spate of robberies in the Tokyo metropolitan area, there were also suspected related cases in Tochigi Prefecture and ...

In an effort to reduce food waste at restaurants while taking hygiene into consideration, Japan's health ministry released ...

Track cyclist Kento Yamasaki won the men's keirin at the world championships Thursday, making him the first Japanese to win ...

After the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) stated its support in June for the early introduction of a separate surname ...

An 87-year-old doctor from the Fukuoka Prefecture city of Yukuhashi completed a 100-kilometer walking challenge here for the ...

Some prefectural police forces in Japan will introduce body cameras in fiscal 2025 on a trial basis to verify that officers ...