The Chiba city government is considering moving and reconstructing Zozo Marine Stadium, a city-owned ballpark in Chiba, east of Tokyo, sources said Monday.時事通信社 による

The average price of rice at supermarkets across Japan fell for the first time in 18 weeks in the week ended May 4, the agriculture ministry said Monday.時事通信社 による

A Buddha statue stolen in 2012 and taken to South Korea was returned to a temple on Tsushima, an island in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Nagasaki, on Monday.時事通信社 による

Japan's transport ministry on Monday issued a strict warning to Japan Airport Terminal Co. over its subsidiary's inappropriate transactions that benefited a consultant firm headed by the eldest son of Makoto Koga, former secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government is carefully looking at movements related to the proposed direct peace talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Monday.時事通信社 による

Japan's current account surplus hit a record high in fiscal 2024 as a weaker yen boosted dividend and interest flows from overseas, a Finance Ministry report showed Monday.時事通信社 による

Japan's Foreign Ministry said Monday that World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will visit the country for three days through Wednesday to meet with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and other senior officials.時事通信社 による

An 84-year-old woman was found bleeding on a street in Chiba, east of Tokyo, on Sunday and was pronounced dead after being rushed to a hospital.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday suggested his intention to submit a pension system reform bill as early as this week.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has welcomed the U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan as a "significant achievement."時事通信社 による

Whether to lower the consumption tax rate would be a campaign issue in this summer's election of the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of Japan's parliament, key members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan have said.時事通信社 による

A Chinese marine research ship was extending something like a pipe into the sea in the Japanese exclusive economic zone off the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture Sunday, the Japan Coast Guard said.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Chilean President Gabriel Boric on Sunday reaffirmed the importance of free trade as the world faces a historic turning point.時事通信社 による

Hokuhoku Financial Group Inc. will deploy staff with advanced green transformation knowledge mainly in Hokkaido, northern Japan, President Hiroshi Nakazawa said in a recent interview with Jiji Press.時事通信社 による

Idemitsu Kosan Co. will strengthen materials business for all-solid-state batteries, considered to be next-generation electric vehicle batteries, President Noriaki Sakai said in a recent interview with Jiji Press.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba reiterated his country's demand on Sunday that the United States withdraw its auto tariffs after Washington and London agreed to create a low-tariff quota for British car exports to the United States.時事通信社 による

Japan's first university faculty dedicated to dinosaur studies opened last month in a prefecture known as a major dinosaur fossil excavation site.時事通信社 による

A Buddha statue stolen from a temple on Tsushima, an island in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Nagasaki, in 2012 was handed over to the Japanese side at a temple in Seosan, central South Korea, on Saturday, people familiar with the matter said.時事通信社 による

Japanese government officials are alarmed by an agreement between Washington and London to set a low-tariff quota for British vehicle exports to the United States.時事通信社 による

Lawson Inc. said Friday that it will expand sales of frozen "onigiri" rice balls.時事通信社 による

Countries failed to adopt a unanimous recommendation on Friday for the 2026 review conference of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.時事通信社 による

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. will spend 134.8 billion Indian rupees to acquire a 20pctstake in Yes Bank, an Indian commercial bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., the parent of the Japanese bank, said Friday.時事通信社 による

Japan's Emperor Emeritus Akihito, 91, was discharged from the University of Tokyo Hospital on Saturday after being examined for suspected myocardial ischemia.時事通信社 による

Nippon Steel Corp. said Friday that its consolidated net profit for fiscal 2025 is projected to plunge 42.9pctfrom the previous year to 200 billion yen, amid U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs.時事通信社 による

An investigation committee set up by Japan Airport Terminal Co. said Friday that a subsidiary engaged in inappropriate transactions that benefited a consultant firm headed by the 52-year-old son of Makoto Koga, former secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.時事通信社 による

The Okinawa prefectural government and the U.S. military on Friday held the first meeting of a new forum to discuss preventive measures in response to a spate of sexual assaults involving U.S. military personnel in Japan's southernmost prefecture.時事通信社 による

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, in a telephone meeting with his Pakistani counterpart, Muhammad Ishaq Dar, on Friday, urged both Pakistan and India to exercise restraint and engage in dialogue to prevent further conflict.時事通信社 による

The suspect in Wednesday's knife attack at a subway station in Tokyo has told police that he chose his target because the person was just nearby, and that he does not know the victim, investigative sources said Friday.時事通信社 による

Japan's Princess Aiko, the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, visited foreign pavilions at the ongoing 2025 World Exposition in the western city of Osaka on Friday.時事通信社 による

Shoji Nishida of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Friday retracted his recent remark criticizing exhibits about members of the "Himeyuri" nursing corps who died in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II.時事通信社 による

Panasonic Holdings Corp. said Friday that it will cut 10,000 jobs globally to streamline unprofitable operations.時事通信社 による

Komeito, the junior member of Japan's ruling coalition, proposed the establishment of a framework for multilateral security dialogue in Northeast Asia, in its peace-building vision adopted Friday ahead of the 80th anniversary this August of the end of World War II.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party are considering skipping a consumption tax cut as an economic measure to fight inflation and counter tariffs by U.S. President Donald Trump, it was learned Friday.時事通信社 による

Japanese Emperor Naruhito handed medals to 19 people including five foreigners in the ceremony for conferment of Grand Cordon honors in spring at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Friday.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government is considering revising bidding conditions for the purchase of government-stockpiled rice, it was learned on Friday.時事通信社 による

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. said Friday that it will change its official corporate name to NTT Inc. in July.時事通信社 による

Heads of hibakusha atomic bomb survivor groups in Hiroshima and Nagasaki voiced hope Friday that new Pope Leo XIV will promote nuclear abolition as his predecessor Francis did.時事通信社 による

Tokyo District Court on Friday found a former Tokyo Stock Exchange employee and his father guilty of insider trading.時事通信社 による

Nissan Motor Co. said Friday that it has decided to abandon its plan to build a battery plant for electric vehicles in the city of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan.時事通信社 による

Japan hopes to develop its ties with the Vatican further under new Pope Leo XIV, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Friday.時事通信社 による

Japan will keep asking the United States to scrap additional tariffs on vehicle and other imports launched by U.S. President Donald Trump, economic revitalization minister Ryosei Akazawa said Friday.時事通信社 による

Japanese household spending in fiscal 2024, which ended in March, dropped 0.1pctfrom the previous year in price-adjusted real terms, down for the second straight year, the internal affairs ministry said Friday.時事通信社 による

Japan Airport Terminal Co. President Nobuaki Yokota and Chairman Isao Takashiro resigned Friday amid a corruption scandal involving the operating company for Tokyo's Haneda Airport terminals and a son of Makoto Koga, former secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.時事通信社 による

Japanese Princess Kako will make an official visit to Brazil for two weeks from June 4, according to a plan approved by the Japanese government at a cabinet meeting on Friday.時事通信社 による

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins will visit seven countries including Japan over the next five months to discuss ways to improve market access for U.S. farm products, the Department of Agriculture said Thursday.時事通信社 による

Japan's inflation-adjusted real wage index in March fell 2.1pctfrom a year before, down for the third straight month, the labor ministry said Friday.時事通信社 による

Japan's three major shipping companies expect their consolidated net profits in fiscal 2025 to plunge around 50-70pctfrom the previous year, projecting a drop in transportation of automobiles and other goods due to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff measures.時事通信社 による

Japan and Australia have reaffirmed their close cooperation in the security field in response to North Korea's launch of ballistic missiles Thursday.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Jordanian Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II have affirmed their countries' cooperation toward the realization of peace in the Middle East.時事通信社 による

The Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, on Thursday welcomed the first students on a school trip since it was hit by a massive earthquake in January 2024.時事通信社 による