A delegation from China has visited Etorofu, one of the four Russian-controlled northwestern Pacific islands claimed by Japan ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday mentioned the possibility of replacing embattled agriculture minister Kazuo Yana for the first time. Yana is under fire for suggesting that he imposed ...

The proportion of people in Japan who expect prices to be higher in five years rose to 86.5 pct, the highest level in 19 ...

Mitsunari Okamoto, newly elected leader of Japanese opposition party Komeito, said in a recent interview with Jiji Press that ...

The Japanese government is considering including in its revised three key security-related documents plans to study and ...

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The number of Japanese municipalities whose foreign residents account for over 5 pct of the population climbed 2.5-fold from ...

Japan's rice harvest for 2026 is estimated at 7,406,000 tons, down about 1 pct from the previous year's 7,468,000 tons, the ...

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Navi Pillay, this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a former International Criminal Court judge, visited the ICC ...

Japanese agriculture minister Kazuo Yana on Tuesday denied allegations that he had violated the public offices election law ...

Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Pref., Oct. 13 (Jiji Press)--Train services on a section of the Hisatsu Orange Railway line in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, resumed Tuesday after having been suspended ...