JR East will select one of the three through a public vote, and the new character will play the role of promoting the Suica ...

Utagawa Hiroshige built his reputation through the development of landscape pictures, which were then a new genre for ukiyo-e ...

Seiko Ishikawa, Venezuela’s ambassador to Japan since 2005, sits down with Nippon.com to discuss his Japanese roots, his ...

Tokyo, Sept. 8 (Jiji Press)--Members of the opposition Centrist Reform Alliance from the Constitutional Democratic Party of ...

Seoul, Sept. 8 (Jiji Press)--Former Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba stressed the importance of strengthening ...

The Japanese government has called on China to withdraw its antidumping measures imposed on imports of a Japanese ...

Tokyo, Sept. 8 (Jiji Press)--Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party decided at a meeting of party executives on Tuesday to ...

North Korean athletes were last allowed to enter Japan for a sporting event during the final round of the women's soccer ...

Yokohama, Sept. 9 (Jiji Press)--South Korean chip giant Samsung Electronics Co. has held a ceremony to mark the full opening of its semiconductor research base in Yokohama, the capital of Kanagawa ...

Tokyo, Sept. 8 (Jiji Press)--Japanese students earned top scores among the 38 member countries of the Organization for ...

Tokyo, Sept. 7 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is considering keeping Takayuki Kobayashi, policy chief ...

During the 1950s the photographer Haga Hideo captured traditional folk festivals in Fukushima Prefecture. Now the memories in ...