Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Ryosei Akazawa has departed for the United States to discuss Japan’s $550 billion (about ¥86 trillion) investment package with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard ...

Two Japanese nationals are currently detained in Iran, but Japan is in contact with them, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi ...

The hugely popular idol group Strawberry Prince will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year. Rinu, the red-themed member of ...

Stocks sank on Wall Street Thursday after the price of oil spiked to its highest level since the summer of 2024 because of ...

Hanamaruki Foods Inc. said Wednesday that it will sell a liquid version of “shio-koji” seasoning to consumers in the United ...

Yukio Kakuchi, a longtime “drinking friend” whom Donald Keene trusted deeply and who translated many of Keene’s later works, ...

Two regenerative medicine products made from induced pluripotent stem cells have been conditionally approved, the Health, ...

Speaking by phone with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi confirmed Japan would work ...

Toyota Motor Corp. will cut production of vehicles made at domestic plants for export to the Middle East by about 20,000 ...

The government will dispatch charter flights to Saudi Arabia and Oman to evacuate Japanese nationals from Kuwait, Bahrain, ...

A fresh examination of radar data for Venus obtained by NASA’s Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s indicates the presence of a large underground cavity created by a lava flow, the first subsurface ...

The government has compiled new draft measures to prevent technology leakage, in an effort to improve economic security in ...