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 ...

Tokyo, Sept. 8 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi on Tuesday strongly urged Iran to exercise maximum ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

While cyclonic storms generally approach Japan from late spring through autumn, September poses by far the highest risk of severe damage.

A survey in Japan found that more than half of companies still have no female executives, and over 40% have no women in ...