Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki have made some of the best animated films of all time, but some of their anime movies are ...

This multimodal route through the country’s Northern Alps is a great alternative to the similar journey around Mount Fuji — ...

TOKYO/SEOUL -- Export deals by Japanese shipbuilders slumped sharply last month despite a rarely seen spike in global orders, resulting in a wider gap with South Korea. In April, Japan received ...

TOKYO -- Some in Japan are exploring ways to lure U.S.-based scholars facing employment uncertainty under the Trump administration, though their efforts so far are falling short of state-backed ...

Japanese real wages decreased for a third consecutive month in March against the background of relentless inflation, while overtime salaries fell at the fastest pace in almost a year, government data ...

(Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's estimated child population has shrunk for the 44th straight year to a new record low, government data showed Sunday, as the country struggles to reverse the ...

The estimated number of children under 15 in Japan as of April 1 fell by 350,000 from a year before to 13.66 million, down for the 44th consecutive year, the internal affairs ministry said Sunday.

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki stressed on Friday the need for currency stability and said he was watching market moves “carefully,” in the wake of the yen’s ...

An 81-year-old man has died in the northern Japanese prefecture of Akita after a 40-metre-long wind turbine blade broke and fell to the ground. Various local media outlets confirmed that an ...

Japan's three major steelmakers forecast that their consolidated net profits will decline in fiscal 2025, which will end next March, according to the companies' earnings reports released by Monday ...

A survey has found that the proportion of mothers in Japan who always or mostly breast-feed their babies shrank by more than 25 percentage points last year compared to a decade before. The online ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese real wages decreased for a third consecutive month in March, squeezed by relentless inflation although consumer spending beat expectations, government data showed on Friday.