Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako hosted an autumn garden party at the Akasaka Imperial Gardens in Tokyo on Wednesday afternoon, attended by about 1,400 guests, including athletes who won gold medals at the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games.時事通信社 による

Oriental Land Co., the operator of the Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea theme parks, said Wednesday that its consolidated revenue rose 4.5pctin the six months ended in September from a year before to 297.2 billion yen, the highest level for the fiscal first half.時事通信社 による

Tokyo District Court on Wednesday sentenced a former employee of Japanese drugmaker Daiichi Sankyo Co. to 16 years in prison for the murder of his wife by methanol poisoning in 2022.時事通信社 による

The combined global vehicle production of eight major Japanese automakers fell 6pctfrom a year earlier to 11.87 million units in the April-September first half of fiscal 2024, their data showed Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party plans to start a special parliamentary session on Nov. 11 to elect a prime minister following Sunday's general election, a senior party official said Wednesday.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government plans to pay up to 19,000 yen per night to national public servants when they stay in Tokyo on business trips from next April, it was learned Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Japan's 10 major power utilities said Wednesday that they will raise their electricity rates for an average household by 513-650 yen in November from the previous month due to the end of a government subsidy program.時事通信社 による

Intricate landforms in areas around a just restarted nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture are seen making evacuations difficult in the event of a serious accident at the plant.時事通信社 による

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi urged a U.N. panel on Wednesday to withdraw its call for a revision of Japan's Imperial House Law.時事通信社 による

A former colonel of the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force pleaded not guilty to an alleged breach of confidentiality in the first hearing of his trial at Tokyo District Court on Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the opposition Democratic Party for the People said Wednesday that they plan to hold a meeting of their secretaries-general and parliamentary affairs chiefs on Thursday.時事通信社 による

Signs of revolt against Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba are beginning to emerge within his Liberal Democratic Party after its humiliating defeat in Sunday's general election.時事通信社 による

The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Nippon Ishin no Kai ()削除, both opposition forces, agreed on Wednesday to continue discussions on the upcoming parliamentary election of prime minister.時事通信社 による

Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday that its parent-only global vehicle sales in April-September fell 2.8pctfrom a year before to 5,028,830 units.時事通信社 による

Tokyo High Court ruled Wednesday that Japan's Civil Code and other provisions that do not recognize same-sex marriage are unconstitutional as they violate equality before the law, which is guaranteed by the country's Constitution.時事通信社 による

Japan's leisure-related market expanded 13.4pctfrom the previous year to 71,214 billion yen in 2023 after the COVID-19 pandemic, private think tank Japan Productivity Center has said.時事通信社 による

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party is seen incurring a 2.5pctreduction in state subsidies to political parties for 2024 following its rout in Sunday's general election, a Jiji Press estimate has found.時事通信社 による

The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Tuesday recommended that Japan revise its Imperial House Law to ensure gender equality.時事通信社 による

Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co. said that Osamu Kurosaka has stepped down as chairman of the company and become consultant.時事通信社 による

Japan Exchange Group Inc., which operates the Tokyo Stock Exchange, said Tuesday that it has set up a panel of independent directors to review internal controls in the wake of an insider trading case involving a TSE employee.時事通信社 による

East Japan Railway Co. and West Japan Railway Co. continued to struggle with unprofitable local train lines due to a decline in the number of passengers, data released by the companies on Tuesday showed.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is planning to ask the Democratic Party for the People to form a "partial alliance" with his Liberal Democratic Party, under which they would cooperate on a policy-by-policy basis following the ruling bloc's crushing defeat in Sunday's general election, informed sources said.…

Hino Motors Ltd. said Tuesday it swung to a consolidated net loss of 219.5 billion yen in the six months ended last month, marking its biggest loss for the fiscal first-half period as the company was hurt by a scandal over its vehicle test fraud.時事通信社 による

Japanese police have arrested two 20-year-olds, an 18-year-old and a 17-year-old for an alleged assault that left a 20-year-old college student dead at a park in Ebetsu in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido.時事通信社 による

The wife of a U.S. serviceman has been found dead in a hotel in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka, local police said Tuesday.時事通信社 による

The Conservative Party of Japan, in Sunday's general election, cleared the requirement to be recognized as a political party under the public offices election and political party subsidy laws.時事通信社 による

Tohoku Electric Power Co. restarted the No. 2 reactor at its Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture on Tuesday, making it the first reactor to come back online in eastern Japan since the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government is increasingly worried about the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip after Israel's parliament voted to ban the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA, from operating in the country.時事通信社 による

The Democratic Party for the People, which advanced in Sunday's general election in Japan, would ask any party to cooperate with its proposals to cut income and gasoline taxes, its leader, Yuichiro Tamaki, said Tuesday.時事通信社 による

An event to promote food from the central Japan prefecture of Niigata was held in New York on Monday.時事通信社 による

The number of people who were sent to a hospital over heatstroke in Japan from May to September came in at 97,578, the highest level for the five-month period since 2008 when the statistics began, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. President Akira Shimada said Tuesday that it is "impossible" to scrap the NTT law at the moment.時事通信社 による

A 42-year-old man, believed to be a student from Taiwan, has been arrested by Tokyo police for allegedly assaulting Japanese female celebrity Haruna Kojima, it was learned Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Thirty people in Japan complaining of fraud damage on Tuesday filed lawsuits against U.S. technology giant Meta Platforms Inc., formerly Facebook Inc., and its Japanese arm for failing to block fake social media ads on investment using the names and images of celebrities.時事通信社 による

Hidehisa Otsuji, president of the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of Japan's parliament, has decided to resign due to a health problem, a source close to him said Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Japan's seasonally adjusted ratio of effective job openings to seekers in September rose 0.01 point from the previous month to 1.24, the labor ministry said Tuesday.時事通信社 による

The number of elementary to high school students who committed suicide in Japan stood at 513 in 2023, against the record high of 514 marked the previous year, a government report showed Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H- Bomb Sufferers Organizations, said the group believes it was named this year's winner of the Nobel Peace Prize as the work of each and every hibakusha atomic bomb survivor was highly appreciated.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government Tuesday decided to introduce the My Number personal identification card functioning as a driver's license for use from March 24, 2025.時事通信社 による

Mitsumu Ejiri, assistant professor at Japan's National Institute of Polar Research, has been appointed the first female leader of the wintering team of a Japanese Antarctic research expedition.時事通信社 による

Toyota Motor Corp. and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. plan to collaborate on research and development for a driver assistance system that utilizes next-generation optical communication infrastructure and artificial intelligence, people familiar with the matter said Monday.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government and ruling bloc are considering convening a parliamentary session on Nov. 11 to elect a prime minister, coalition officials said Monday.時事通信社 による

Keiichi Ishii plans to step down as leader of Komeito, the junior partner in Japan's ruling coalition, after losing his seat in Sunday's election for the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, party officials said Monday.時事通信社 による

Japanese public prosecutors said on Monday that they will not object to the retrial of a 59-year-old man who served a prison sentence for the 1986 murder of a junior high school student in central Japan.時事通信社 による

Some observers in the United States over Japan-U.S. relations are casting vigilant eyes on Japanese politics following the defeat of the ruling coalition led by the Liberal Democratic Party in Sunday's election for the House of Representatives, the all-important lower chamber of Japan's parliament.時事通信社 による

Voter turnout for single-seat constituencies in Sunday's general election in Japan stood at 53.85 pct, the third lowest in post-World War II history, according to internal affairs ministry data released Monday.時事通信社 による

Japanese real estate developer Mitsui Fudosan Co. and others on Monday started cutting down trees as part of their redevelopment plan for the Meiji Jingu Gaien area in central Tokyo.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Monday that he and his ruling Liberal Democratic Party received an "extremely harsh judgment" from the electorate in the country's general election Sunday.時事通信社 による

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. on Monday resumed experimental work to remove nuclear fuel debris from the No. 2 reactor at its meltdown-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan.時事通信社 による

The main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan at a meeting of executives Monday decided to call on other opposition parties to cooperate for the upcoming election for the prime minister, following the ruling bloc's crushing defeat in Sunday's general election.時事通信社 による