Residents and volunteers on Friday pounded steamed rice in a wooden mortar with a large hammer to make rice cakes at a ...

“Risks and uncertainty around inflation, we see as higher,” said Fed Board Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday. BOJ Gov.

Yamanashi Prefecture plans to build 13 more evacuation shelters along a downhill route on the prefecture side of Mt. Fuji’s, ...

A 1-year-old boy has died after choking on a ball of cheese, the National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan announced on ...

The secretaries-general of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, its coalition partner, Komeito, and the opposition ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has begun seriously coordinating his schedule for a visit the United States, following U.S.

ONAGAWA, Miyagi — A new bridge to Izushima, an island off Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, opened Thursday. The 364-meter Izushima ...

Crown Prince Akishino visited Shizuoka Municipal Nihondaira Zoo in Shizuoka on Thursday as the president of the Japanese ...

A series of intense Israeli airstrikes shook Yemen’s rebel-held capital and a port city early Thursday and killed at least ...

The government and ruling bloc on Thursday began making adjustments to the schedule in order for the ordinary Diet session to ...

Officials from the Japanese Defense Ministry and the Tokyo metropolitan government on Friday conducted an on-site inspection ...

Manga creator Satoru Hiura has been representing charming women who reflect their times in her work such as “Hotaru no Hikari ...