Tokyo, Feb. 21 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Public Security Intelligence Agency launched a special website Friday to prevent public ...

With rice prices still high in Japan, the government has announced the release of some of its stockpiles of the staple grain. On February 14, Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and ...

Japanese society is admired for its orderliness—prompt trains, litter-free streets, lost valuables returned intact. But what is behind the high degree of discipline and structure? Director Ema ...

The town of Hino is a rural, inland community in southwestern Tottori—Japan’s least populated prefecture. It lies in the Hino River basin, whose iron sand was used in the past to produce steel ...

Tokyo, Feb. 17 (Jiji Press)--Japan’s government and ruling Liberal Democratic Party have begun discussions on a concession over a proposed hike in the 1.03-million-yen income tax threshold, an ...

Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Pref., Feb. 17 (Jiji Press)--Central Japan Railway Co., or JR Tokai, unveiled a specially painted Shinkansen bullet train Monday with a theme of Fantasy Springs, a new area of ...

Paris, Feb. 11 (Jiji Press)--Japan and Canada on Tuesday signed the Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, the first ...

Colder than expected weather in February means the start of cherry blossom season will be slightly later than usual in 2025. On February 13, the Japan Meteorological Corporation updated its cherry ...

Tokyo, Feb. 17 (Jiji Press)--Akihiro Arimoto, father of Keiko Arimoto, a Japanese woman who was abducted to North Korea in the 1980s, died of old age at his home in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, western ...

Manpower Group, a Tokyo-based comprehensive temporary staffing service company, conducted a survey on the challenges facing employers in 42 countries and regions with regard to securing talent.

Tokyo, Feb. 17 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Prince Hisahito, the only son of Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko, has obtained a driver's license, sources said. The 18-year-old student at the ...

New Delhi/Tokyo, Feb. 17 (Jiji Press)--High-ranking officials of the Taliban-led interim government of Afghanistan, including deputy economy minister Abdul Latif Nazari, have visited Japan at the ...