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

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

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

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

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

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

Tokyo, Sept. 8 (Jiji Press)--The Japan Meteorological Agency and the land ministry issued the highest Level 5 emergency flood warning for the Shonai River, which flows through Aichi and Gifu ...

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

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)--Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party decided at a meeting of party executives on Tuesday to ...

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

Beijing, Sept. 7 (Jiji Press)--The Chinese Commerce Ministry said Monday that it would require importers of a semiconductor ...