Neighborhood cake shops across Japan are facing a crisis as rising costs for ingredients and other goods are apparently ...

Sapporo Breweries Ltd. on Monday said it was entering a strategic partnership with the major Danish brewer Carlsberg A/S to ...

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Online applications for an all-day advance reservation system introduced on a trial basis this fiscal year at the Hiroshima ...

Kewpie said it does not see this as only taking an easy way. It sees it as a positive change that helps people keep enjoying ...

Japan's real wages in May rose 1.4 percent from a year earlier, increasing for the fifth straight month and marking the ...

MUFG Bank, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., and JCB Co. on Monday agreed to collaborate on business ...

A large and "violent" typhoon is moving westward near the Mariana Islands in the Pacific and may approach areas south of ...

The United States said Monday that China's test-firing of a nuclear-capable ballistic missile from a submarine was of ...

Tokyo stocks were mixed early Tuesday as buying following the U.S. Dow Jones index's record-high close was offset by selling ...

Regional banks are opening new branches across areas of Kumamoto Prefecture in southwest Japan where the population is ...