Nagoya/Chiba, Jan. 19 (Jiji Press)--The Aichi prefectural government said Sunday that outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza have been confirmed at three chicken farms and a quail farm in ...

Osaka, Jan. 19 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Sunday visited the venue of the 2025 World Exposition slated to be held in the western Japan city of Osaka for six months ...

Our walk along the Yamanote Line starts at Ōsaki Station, the loop’s southern tip and one of Tokyo’s recently redeveloped districts. This is a part of Tokyo foreigners hardly get to see.

Tokyo, Jan. 19 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Sunday stressed the continued importance of relations between Tokyo and Seoul, following the arrest earlier in the day of ...

Tokyo, Jan. 19 (Jiji Press)--The Confederation of Japan Automobile Workers' Unions, or JAW, has decided to seek five more days off a year in the 2025 "shunto" labor-management negotiations in spring.

Tokyo, Jan. 9 (Jiji Press)--Seven & i Holdings Co. may make a decision as early as May on buyout offers from Canadian ...

This sculpture of Nyoirin Kannon (Cintramanicakra), a manifestation of Kannon Bosatsu (the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara), enchants with the grace and refinement of its poise and gestures. A ...

Beijing, Jan. 18 (Jiji Press)--A Chinese woman who came into the spotlight two years ago by claiming on social media to have bought an island in the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa plans ...

In the center of the Shimokita Peninsula, in the northernmost reaches of Aomori Prefecture, lies Osorezan (Mount Osore), one of Japan’s most sacred spots. Hito wa shineba oyama sa igu, say the ...

Tokyo, Jan. 17 (Jiji Press)--Bonuses paid by major Japanese companies in winter 2024 averaged 891,460 yen, rewriting an all-time high for the first time in five years, the labor ministry said Friday.

The Japanese government and nuclear power plant operators have long grappled with how to dispose of spent fuel and other high-level radioactive waste. Authorities finally settled on the approach ...

In the October 2024 election for the House of Representatives, an ongoing scandal over financial kickbacks and other improprieties saw the Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner ...