Three major convenience store chains will begin selling older rice released from government reserves, with the first batch ...

A 38-year-old man was arrested on June 3 on suspicion of sending a threatening parcel to The Asahi Shimbun’s bureau here that ...

Major League Baseball’s viewer numbers in the United States and Japan during the first two months of the season have seen ...

Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi told reporters on June 3 that the government is considering buying back stockpiled rice from ...

The government has decided on a basic policy direction for the huge volume of contaminated soil resulting from the 2011 ...

Japanese government officials have expressed both optimism and caution over the future of bilateral relations under South ...

Shigeo Nagashima, a true giant in Japanese baseball and one of the country’s most popular athletes, died of pneumonia at a ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba appears willing to dissolve the Lower House and call a snap election before opposition parties ...

Ruling and opposition parties have essentially shelved talks in the Diet on whether to grant imperial family status to ...

Ibaraki Prefecture is seeking to host the country's first demonstration reactor for next-generation nuclear technology known ...

Statue re-creations of an ancient dog breed modeled after fossilized remains excavated at the Makimuku ruins are now on ...

Counselors and trainers have increasingly been dealing with a modern problem: young employees’ utter disdain for landline ...