A notice bearing that message was posted last summer outside convenience stores in Niigata Prefecture, earning praise on ...

A system under which patrol officers immediately collect 2,000 yen from people who throw trash on the street began on June 1 ...

Japan's industry ministry on Friday proposed replacing two to five aging nuclear reactors by the 2040s, and a total of 11 to ...

Japan's foreign reserve assets fell $77.11 billion, or 5.6 percent, to $1.31 trillion in May from the previous month, the ...

Chinese authorities snuffed out efforts to mark Thursday's anniversary of the deadly 1989 military crackdown on student-led ...

Japan's largest consumer electronics retailer Yamada Holdings Co. and Edion Corp., another key company in the industry, said ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping will travel to North Korea next week, both countries announced Friday, in what will be his first ...

One in four Japanese students between the fourth grade of elementary school and the third year of junior high school has ...

The amount of airborne cedar and cypress pollen in Tokyo this spring was roughly 1.8 times higher than last spring's level, ...

Japanese exports of fishery products in 2025 hit a record high 423.1 billion yen ($2.6 billion), up 17.2 percent from a year ...

The Nikkei stock index fell Friday morning, briefly losing over 2 percent, as its heavyweight technology components came ...

Japan's real wages in April rose 1.9 percent from a year earlier, increasing for the fourth straight month, as companies ...