Japan won gold medals in swimming and karate at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Monday, with Shin Ohashi sharing the men's ...

Powerful Typhoon Dujuan passed northeastward over waters north of Hachijojima in the Izu island chain south of Tokyo on Monday afternoon and approached the Boso Peninsula in the Kanto region in ...

Tokyo, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)--Needy households in Japan live on an average food expenditure of less than 500 yen per person a ...

The Bank of Japan conducted a "rate check" with financial institutions, a move regarded as a preparatory step toward possible currency market intervention, ahead of a five-day holiday period through ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi left Tokyo's Haneda Airport aboard a government plane late Monday for New York to attend a U.N. General Assembly session. In her first address to the General ...

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A 90-year-old second-generation Japanese woman born in the Philippines who was separated from her father after World War II is planning to visit his native Okinawa Prefecture in southernmost Japan for ...

People in Ishikawa Prefecture observed a moment of silence Monday for the victims of torrential rains that struck the northern part of the Noto Peninsula in the central Japan prefecture two years ago.

Japan now has more than 100,000 people aged 100 or over. According to resident registration data from the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, the number of centenarians increased by 7,914 from the ...

Autumn in Japan brings crisp, clear skies, making it an ideal season for tsukimi, the tradition of admiring the moon. The fifteenth night of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is known as the ...

Manila, Sept. 20 (Jiji Press)--Economy ministers from Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed at a meeting in Manila on Sunday to begin a study on expanding the Japan-ASEAN ...