Japan's Nissan Motor Co. said Monday it has decided to cancel its plan to invest up to 600 million euros in an electric vehicle company of France's Renault SA, its capital alliance partner.時事通信社 による

Japan's Nintendo Co. said Wednesday that it will release the Nintendo Switch 2 game console June 5.時事通信社 による

Japanese ruling and opposition parties are discussing strengthening parliamentary oversight of government activities under a planned active cyberdefense law, sources said Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Major staffing agency Pasona Group Inc. on Wednesday unveiled to the press a beating "iPS heart" made from iPS ()削除 cells that will be displayed in its pavilion at the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, which begins April 13.時事通信社 による

The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, known as GSI, said Wednesday that Friday's massive earthquake in Myanmar has caused a horizontal ground shift of up to 6 meters.時事通信社 による

The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade said Wednesday that it will display soil brought from the far side of the moon at the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, western Japan, which begins April 13.時事通信社 による

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority decided Wednesday to revise its nuclear disaster response guidelines, mainly to clarify the conditions for lifting a shelter-in-place order.時事通信社 による

Regional banking group Jimoto Holdings Inc. plans to exit from Japanese government control by resuming dividend payments on preferred shares it issued to the government in exchange for public funds, it was learned Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Japan's nonpartisan group of lawmakers for friendship with China, headed by Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Hiroshi Moriyama, said Wednesday that its delegation will visit Beijing from April 27 to 29.時事通信社 による

Yoshihiko Noda, leader of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, said Wednesday that his party will seek a parliamentary resolution to urge the government to negotiate resolutely with the United States over its high tariffs.時事通信社 による

With rice prices staying high, Japanese retail giant Aeon Co. said Wednesday that it will sell a blend of rice produced in Japan and the United States.時事通信社 による

Hyogo prefectural police said Wednesday that they have arrested a U.S. tourist after he reported that he had inadvertently brought a handgun into Japan.時事通信社 による

A former Fuji Television Network Inc. announcer has released a statement after an investigative panel recognized that she suffered sexual assault from former TV personality Masahiro Nakai, it has been learned.時事通信社 による

Retired Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, nominated by U.S. President Donald Trump to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, pledged Tuesday to modernize the Japan-U.S. alliance.時事通信社 による

Japanese manufacturers are accelerating efforts to mitigate the economic impact of a massive earthquake forecast to occur in the Nankai Trough off the Pacific coast of central to southwestern Japan.時事通信社 による

Stab wounds are concentrated on the upper body of a Tokyo high school girl who was found dead in a house in Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture, two days ago, police sources said Wednesday.時事通信社 による

A Japanese person was injured in the Thai capital of Bangkok following the massive earthquake that occurred in neighboring Myanmar on Friday, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Six Japanese automakers on Tuesday reported higher vehicle sales in the U.S. market for the first quarter of this year as some consumers apparently bought cars or trucks before President Donald Trump's auto tariffs take effect.時事通信社 による

Three major Japanese department store operators on Tuesday reported declines in same-store sales in March from a year before because of lower spending by foreign visitors and sluggish demand for spring clothing amid unstable weather.時事通信社 による

Rapidus Corp. started the operations of a pilot line for advanced semiconductors at its plant in Chitose, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in his press conference Tuesday emphasized measures to tackle the rising cost of living, in a bid to turn the dire situation around.時事通信社 による

A Japanese law to digitize the official gazette entered into force Tuesday, establishing the digital version as the official original.時事通信社 による

Japan's Defense Ministry said Tuesday that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. will develop long-range precision-guided missiles as part of the country's plan to acquire standoff defense capability.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government Tuesday said it will dispatch a 32-member emergency relief team including doctors and nurses to aid victims in earthquake-hit Myanmar.時事通信社 による

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Tuesday that the government has conveyed its concern to Beijing over a Chinese military drill near Taiwan.時事通信社 による

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said Tuesday that he will visit Brussels for four days from Wednesday to attend a meeting of NATO foreign ministers.時事通信社 による

Sponsors continue to take a wait-and-see stance after Fuji Television Network Inc. and its parent company on Monday announced preventive measures, such as organizational and corporate culture reforms, over a scandal involving popular TV personality Masahiro Nakai.時事通信社 による

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party held the first meeting of its strategic headquarters on deepening Japan-U.S. ties on Tuesday, before the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump implements additional tariffs on auto imports.時事通信社 による

Seven people, including an infant, were taken to hospital Tuesday after a car mounted a sidewalk in the central Japan city of Nagoya.時事通信社 による

Jiji Press Ltd. and textbook publisher Tokyo Shoseki Co. said Tuesday that they have formed a business partnership in the field of education.時事通信社 による

Many companies around Japan held entrance ceremonies for new employees Tuesday, the first day of the country's new fiscal year.時事通信社 による

Police in Aichi Prefecture have arrested a 21-year-old man after the body of a woman was found in a closet at his home in the central Japan prefecture.時事通信社 による

Japan's jobs availability ratio dipped for the first time in six months in February as businesses refrained from hiring employees due to higher costs despite labor shortages, the labor ministry said on Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said at a press conference Tuesday that his government plans to provide financing and procurement support to domestic companies in response to additional U.S. tariffs on automobiles.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Tuesday that he is not considering holding a House of Representatives election on the same day as the House of Councillors election slated for this summer.時事通信社 による

The Japanese agriculture ministry said Tuesday that it has sold 70,336 tons of stockpiled rice in its second auction conducted from Wednesday through Friday.時事通信社 による

The Japan Institute for Health Security, modeled on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was launched Tuesday to prepare for future infectious disease crises.時事通信社 による

The amount of rice collected by major Japanese rice buyers as of the end of February was down 254,000 tons from a year earlier, the agriculture ministry said Monday.時事通信社 による

Japan's Fair Trade Commission said Monday that it has designated three companies including Google LLC and Apple Inc. as subject to rules under a new law regulating major information technology companies in the smartphone application market.時事通信社 による

Experts from Japan and overseas Monday released a proposal for urgent action to prevent nuclear war, ahead of next year's review conference for the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.時事通信社 による

The Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatics team will make a performance flight for the World Exposition in the western Japan city of Osaka on its opening day of April 13.時事通信社 による

As many as 49.2pctof needy households with infants have experienced an inability to buy disposable diapers due to economic reasons, according to a survey by international nongovernmental organization Save the Children Japan.時事通信社 による

San-ikukai, a Tokyo-based social welfare corporation, announced Monday the start of its "Baby Basket" project to protect lives of newborn babies at its hospital in the capital's Sumida Ward.時事通信社 による

The Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition said Monday that popular comedy duo Downtown has withdrawn from the ambassador post for the event, which is slated to be held from mid-April in the western Japan city of Osaka.時事通信社 による

A third-party committee set up by Fuji Media Holdings Inc., the parent of scandal-embattled Fuji Television Network Inc., said Monday that former TV star Masahiro Nakai was involved in a sexual assault against a woman.時事通信社 による

Japan's House of Councillors passed a modified budget bill for fiscal 2025 on Monday, sending it back to the House of Representatives for approval of the modification by the end of the day.時事通信社 による

The forest fire that had ravaged parts of Imabari, a city in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, has been contained, Mayor Shigeki Tokunaga said Monday.時事通信社 による

Major food and beverage makers are planning markups for 4,225 products in Japan in April, Teikoku Databank Ltd. said Monday.時事通信社 による

The Special Committee on Political Reform of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, decided at a board meeting Monday not to hold a vote the same day on bills regarding political donations from companies and other organizations.時事通信社 による

Up to 298,000 people are expected to be killed in Japan due mainly to a tsunami and building collapses if an earthquake of around magnitude 9 occurs in the Nankai Trough off the country's Pacific coast, the Japanese government said Monday in a report compiled by an experts' panel.時事通信社 による