Public mea culpas are a corporate ritual in Japan. For Fuji TV, the resignations and public apologies of two bosses didn’t ...

Ozeki Champion Hoshoryu has been recommended for promotion to sumo's top rank after winning his second grand tournament title ...

At Koga Falls in the city of Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture, the water flowing down the falls has frozen completely again this year with the coldness of win･･･ ...

Tourism numbers are sky-high in Japan. The country saw record numbers of travelers throughout 2024, and government officials ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted Fukushima Prefecture and nearby areas early Thursday, the weather agency said.

The Bank of Japan is holding a policy meeting from Thursday, with attention on whether it will raise interest rates again for ...

A strong earthquake measuring a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 has rattled southwestern Japan. The Japan Meteorological Agency said Monday that tsunami advisories were issued for Miyazaki Prefecture, ...

Japan Today, launched in September 2000, is a Tokyo-based online newspaper, featuring all the latest news on Japan and the world, including national, political, entertainment, business, technology and ...

A 7.6-magnitude earthquake strikes the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture on New Year’s Day, causing shaking of level 7 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale in the municipalities of Wajima ...

Those small medium companies which hire cheap labor as trainee and special skilled worker, that only have 50 or even less than 20 worker also being considered "firms". These companies are so many, ...

Japanese collectors spent billions on European paintings during the bubble economy of the 1980s. Officials today hope to ...

Japan is staring down a demographic cliff. The population has shrunk for 15 straight years, with births hitting a record low of 730,000 last year and deaths a record high of 1.58 million.