Tokyo, April 19 (Jiji Press)--Japan's House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill aimed at boosting measures to tackle the country's declining birthrate. The bill was approved at a plenary ...

Japan on Thursday disclosed more details of the planned fees that will be added to public medical insurance premiums to help secure funds to fight the country's low birthrate. Participants in the ...

If adopted, the proposal for a 10-year peace plan keeps the moratorium on commercial whaling. Importantly, the three countries that at present set their own catch limits (Japan, Norway ...

Japan announced plans on Wednesday to develop a next-generation passenger jet over the next decade after the last struggling attempt, led by a private company, was scrapped a year ago. The new ...

Even small delays in Japan's much-vaunted bullet trains are rare, and more unusual still are snakes on board holding up the speedy "Shinkansen" service. On Tuesday evening, a passenger alerted ...

TOKYO: Japanese space scientists have unveiled the asteroid hunting space probe they hope to launch later this year on a mission to mine a celestial body. The probe named Hayabusa-2 is expected to ...

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Almost nothing stops Japan’s famous high-speed bullet trains from running exactly on time – but a tiny snake slithering through a passenger carriage will do the trick, albeit for just 17 minutes.

Kabira Bay, located on the north coast of Ishigaki Island, Japan, where many go to escape terrible hay fever. (Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis/Getty Images) TOKYO — Spring is a miserable ...

Japan announced plans on Wednesday to develop a next-generation passenger jet over the next decade after the last struggling attempt, led by a private company, was scrapped a year ago. The new ...