Tokyo, Feb. 6 (Jiji Press)--Heavy snow continued to fall in some parts of Japan on Thursday due to the strongest cold air mass of the season, especially in the Tohoku northeastern region and the ...

Tokyo, Feb. 6 (Jiji Press)--An official vehicle for Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba had a minor collision with a security vehicle at Imperial Hotel in Tokyo just after 7:50 a.m. Thursday.

Tokyo, Feb. 6 (Jiji Press)--Japanese lawmakers have submitted to the House of Councillors a bill to establish rules on so-called specified assisted reproductive technology, or fertility treatments ...

Tokyo, Feb. 6 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba left for the United States on Thursday afternoon to hold his first talks with U.S. President Donald Trump. "Because we will meet ...

Tokyo, Feb. 6 (Jiji Press)--Nippon Steel Corp. Vice Chairman Takahiro Mori said Thursday that the Japanese company is approaching U.S. President Donald Trump's administration in various ways on ...

Tokyo, Feb. 6 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government Thursday presented to an experts panel a plan to allow foreign nationals to engage in home care services under the country's specified skilled ...

In the tax system revisions made in late 2024, the Democratic Party for the People held the casting vote and advocated the increase of the “¥1.03 million wall”—the threshold at which wage ...

Tokyo, Feb. 6 (Jiji Press)--The number of criminal offenses recognized by police in Japan in 2024 rose 4.9 pct from the previous year to 737,679, up for the third straight year, the National ...

Matsumoto, Nagano Pref., Feb. 6 (Jiji Press)--The Bank of Japan needs to raise its policy interest rate to around 1 pct during fiscal 2025 through March 2026, BOJ policymaker Naoki Tamura said ...

Washington, Feb. 5 (Jiji Press)--U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, a Republican from Alaska, said Wednesday that cooperation in the development of liquefied natural gas in the northwestern U.S. state may be ...

Tokyo, Feb. 6 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo police have arrested a former employee of Nomura Securities Co. on suspicion of defrauding a client of 10 million yen with a fake investment offer, it was learned ...

Tokyo, Feb. 6 (Jiji Press)--A recent National Police Agency survey has shown that 76.6 pct of the respondents feel that Japan has become less safe over the past 10 years. According to the survey ...