A record 246 startup companies and universities, along with 194 overseas firms, are taking part in the four-day technology ...

Japan’s rice harvest for 2026 is estimated at 7.4 million tons, down about 1% from the previous year’s 7.47 million tons, the ...

The internal affairs ministry data show increases in foreign populations not only in major cities and industrial districts ...

Over more than seven months of conflict in the Persian Gulf, Japan’s risk-averse refiners and shipowners have stayed away ...

Kim Jong Un inaugurated the museum — chock full of advanced weaponry — as Donald Trump teased the idea of a summit next month ...

A Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper journalist was detained in the far eastern Sakhalin region, the day before he planned to leave ...

Opposition parties grilled the prime minister on Tuesday on not just her policies, but also her new farm minister’s election ...

The policy will consider future population projections, as the country seeks to balance a reliance on foreign workers with a ...

One company in Hyogo Prefecture began offering a plant-based product to substitute Akashi brand octopus after prices for it ...

The BOJ officials see little need for consecutive rate hikes in the absence of signs that upside inflation risks will ...

Okamoto said he called for Komeito to become a rallying point for realignment because he wanted to build a bloc of lawmakers ...

The measure of input prices climbed 6.8% in September from a year earlier, slowing from 7.6% in the previous month, according ...