It was part of meetings that the government plans to hold in all municipalities in the central Japan prefecture, except the city of Kashiwazaki and the village of Kariwa, which host the power plant, ...

Fukuoka, Dec. 14 (Jiji Press)--Two junior high school students were stabbed with what appeared to be a knife by a man at a McDonald's hamburger shop in the city of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, ...

Kushimoto, Wakayama Pref., Dec. 14 (Jiji Press)--Space One Co. decided Saturday to delay the launch of the second unit of its Kairos small rocket carrying satellites to Sunday morning. The Tokyo-based ...

Japan celebrates its matsuri, or festivals, all through the year. Here we take a look at three of these events with literally ...

A survey conducted by the think tank Persol Research and Consulting of around 20,000 employees in customer-facing professions ...

Naha, Okinawa Pref., Dec. 13 (Jiji Press)--Naha District Court on Friday sentenced a 25-year-old U.S. airman to five years in ...

Tokyo, Dec. 14 (Jiji Press)--Foreign ministers of Japan and member nations of the Caribbean Community, or CARICOM, held a meeting in Tokyo on Saturday. Participants aim to confirm their intention to ...

This figure, a national treasure, is housed in the Nara Prefecture temple Kōfukuji. Demons like this are normally shown being ...

Tokyo, Dec. 13 (Jiji Press)--Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner, Komeito, have agreed ...

Shizuoka, Dec. 13 (Jiji Press)--The Shizuoka prefectural government Friday unveiled the outline of a draft ordinance calling ...

Hiroshima, Dec. 13 (Jiji Press)--Hiroshima High Court turned down second-generation hibakusha's appeal for state compensation ...

Tokyo, Dec. 13 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday that holding hearings of a parliamentary ...