Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba emphasized the importance of promoting Japanese films abroad in a meeting with noted Japanese directors on Thursday.時事通信社 による

Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, a prominent Japan expert, died on Sunday at the age of 79, his consulting firm said Monday.時事通信社 による

Japanese rice wholesalers and retailers on Monday called for improvements in what they see as the unbalanced distribution of government-stockpiled rice released last month to curb soaring prices.時事通信社 による

The torches for the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics and Paralympics next year were unveiled Monday at the Italian pavilion of the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city of Osaka.時事通信社 による

About 9.7 million advance tickets for the World Exposition in the western Japan city of Osaka were sold, the event's organizer said Monday, meaning that pre-event sales fell short of its target.時事通信社 による

Japanese Emperor Naruhito hosted a tea party at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Monday for some 60 lawmakers, including the heads of both chambers of the Diet, Japan's parliament.時事通信社 による

A major stockholder in Tsuruha Holdings Inc. clarified Monday its stance against plans to merge the leading Japanese pharmacy chain with its biggest rival, Welcia Holdings Co., in a stock swap and subsequently make the merged company a consolidated subsidiary of Welcia's parent, Aeon Co., through a tender offer.…

Two major South Korean economic organizations have donated a total of 3 billion won to a Seoul-affiliated foundation that pays compensation to plaintiffs on behalf of Japanese companies sued over wartime labor, it was learned Monday.時事通信社 による

Major Japanese milling companies Nippn Corp. and Showa Sangyo Co. said Friday that they will lower flour prices for business customers, starting with deliveries on July 10.時事通信社 による

Wakayama Governor Shuhei Kishimoto, 68, has been taken to hospital after collapsing at his official residence, sources familiar with the matter said Monday.時事通信社 による

Japan's population, including non-Japanese residents, totaled 123,802,000 as of Oct. 1 last year, down by 550,000, or 0.44 pct, from a year before, falling for the 14th straight year, the internal affairs ministry said Monday.時事通信社 による

More than 270 victims in huge earthquakes that particularly hit hard Kumamoto Prefecture nine years ago were remembered in the southwestern Japan prefecture's capital on Monday.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government has confirmed the first Japanese fatality in last month's 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Myanmar, a Foreign Ministry official said Monday.時事通信社 による

Japan will decide whether to compile a fiscal 2025 supplementary budget to address persisting inflation and additional U.S. tariffs, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Monday.時事通信社 による

Whooping cough has swept across Japan, with the number of cases reported so far this year exceeding that of the entire year of 2024.時事通信社 による

The Central Asian country of Turkmenistan on Monday became the first to mark a "national day" in the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city of Osaka, which opened the previous day.時事通信社 による

The National Police Agency has said that 58,044 elderly people living alone died at home in Japan in 2024, disclosing such a figure on an annual basis for the first time.時事通信社 による

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Sunday reiterated his hopes for currency talks with Japan.時事通信社 による

Hiroshi Moriyama, secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said Sunday that he will coordinate to submit a supplementary budget during the ongoing ordinary session of the Diet to fight inflation.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Sunday that tariffs imposed by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump are "definitely not reasonable" for strengthening the U.S. manufacturing industry.時事通信社 による

Both the policy chiefs of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, in a television program on Sunday, expressed caution on a possible consumption tax cut.時事通信社 による

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Japan's ruling coalition is increasingly divided over economic measures to deal with inflation and U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff policy.時事通信社 による

An opening ceremony was held on Saturday for the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city of Osaka, which will open on Sunday for a 184-day run.時事通信社 による

The Hiroshima city government has said that it will shift from inviting countries to its annual peace ceremony on Aug. 6, when the western Japan city was hit by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945, to notifying them of the event.時事通信社 による

The average forecast for inflation over the coming year was plus 12.2pctin a Bank of Japan survey last month, up from plus 11.5pctin the previous survey about three months earlier.時事通信社 による

A Brazilian man will face a jury trial for the August 2022 murder of his wife and daughter in the western Japan city of Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, a Brazilian federal court has said.時事通信社 による

The main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan has begun discussions on a consumption tax cut as a possible key policy pledge for this summer's House of Councillors election.時事通信社 による

Welcia Holdings Co., Japan's largest drugstore chain, and Tsuruha Holdings Inc., the second-largest, said Friday that they will integrate their operations on Dec. 1., two years ahead of schedule, creating a group with annual sales exceeding 2 trillion yen.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will meet with Tomoko Yoshino, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo, the umbrella organization for labor unions in the country, on Monday, the government said Friday.時事通信社 による

Japanese economic revitalization minister Ryosei Akazawa will meet with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in the United States on Thursday Japan time to discuss U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs, Japanese government officials said Friday.時事通信社 による

Senior Japanese lawmaker Hiroshige Seko said Friday that he will testify before the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of parliament, about a slush funds scandal involving the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.時事通信社 による

Led by the Osaka prefecture police department, Japanese police authorities have thoroughly prepared security systems for the World Exposition to be held in the western Japan city of Osaka from Sunday.時事通信社 による

The Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles is facing another funding problem, after it resolved Wednesday a similar crisis caused by subsidy cuts pushed through by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government on Friday adopted a five-year agriculture policy outline that calls for boosting the country's rice exports to 353,000 tons in 2030, an eightfold increase from 46,000 tons in 2024.時事通信社 による

Just ahead of Sunday's opening of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka Prefecture's namesake capital, prefectural Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura has expressed hope that the event will prove a "compass" to the future.時事通信社 による

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya will attend the third Preparatory Committee session for the 2026 Review Conference of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, to be held in New York from April 28, government sources said Friday.時事通信社 による

Japan's Financial Services Agency has ordered Prudential Life Insurance Co. and its holding company to report measures to prevent a recurrence of acts of misconduct involving former employees, people familiar with the matter said Friday.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has found an unlikely friend in a talking doll of Myaku-Myaku, the official mascot of the World Exposition to be held in the western Japan city of Osaka from Sunday.時事通信社 による

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako arrived in Osaka Prefecture on Friday ahead of the opening of the 2025 World Exposition there.時事通信社 による

Japanese economic revitalization minister Ryosei Akazawa on Friday expressed his readiness to discuss nontariff barriers and currencies in his upcoming negotiations with the United States.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday instructed economic revitalization minister Ryosei Akazawa, who is in charge of tariff negotiations with the United States, to launch a task force of relevant ministries to deal with the tariff issue.時事通信社 による

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday reiterated his opposition to Nippon Steel Corp.'s plan to fully acquire United States Steel Corp., saying that the Japanese steelmaker is seeking to become "an investor" in the U.S. peer.時事通信社 による

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction over the Japan-U.S. security treaty, calling the pact "so one-sided."時事通信社 による

Five male junior high school students and a female high school student were taken to hospital Thursday following a report of a lightning strike on a school ground in the central Japan city of Nara, local police said.時事通信社 による

Japan's Defense Ministry said Thursday that the Air Self-Defense Force scrambled fighter jets a total of 704 times in response to possible airspace violations in fiscal 2024, up by 35 from the previous year.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government plans to send economic revitalization minister Ryosei Akazawa, who is in charge of tariff negotiations with the United States, to the country as early as next week, informed sources said Thursday.時事通信社 による

Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force said Thursday that it will conduct its first domestic training exercise for launching surface-to-ship missiles.時事通信社 による

The U.S. military and the Okinawa prefectural police will conduct a joint patrol following a string of sexual assault cases involving U.S. military personnel in the southern Japan prefecture last year, people familiar with the matter said Thursday.時事通信社 による

Major bearing maker MinebeaMitsumi Inc. said Thursday that it will launch a tender offer for major sensor maker Shibaura Electronics Co.時事通信社 による