JR East will select one of the three through a public vote, and the new character will play the role of promoting the Suica ...

Utagawa Hiroshige built his reputation through the development of landscape pictures, which were then a new genre for ukiyo-e ...

Seiko Ishikawa, Venezuela’s ambassador to Japan since 2005, sits down with Nippon.com to discuss his Japanese roots, his ...

Tokyo, Sept. 8 (Jiji Press)--Members of the opposition Centrist Reform Alliance from the Constitutional Democratic Party of ...

The Japanese government has called on China to withdraw its antidumping measures imposed on imports of a Japanese ...

Tokyo, Sept. 8 (Jiji Press)--Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party decided at a meeting of party executives on Tuesday to ...

Tokyo, Sept. 8 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi on Tuesday strongly urged Iran to exercise maximum ...

North Korean athletes were last allowed to enter Japan for a sporting event during the final round of the women's soccer ...

Yokohama, Sept. 9 (Jiji Press)--South Korean chip giant Samsung Electronics Co. has held a ceremony to mark the full opening of its semiconductor research base in Yokohama, the capital of Kanagawa ...

Tokyo, Sept. 8 (Jiji Press)--Japan’s land ministry will introduce a program to provide low-interest loans to businesses that ...

Tokyo, Sept. 8 (Jiji Press)--Japanese students earned top scores among the 38 member countries of the Organization for ...

Tokyo, Sept. 7 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is considering keeping Takayuki Kobayashi, policy chief ...