Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will attend a memorial ceremony on Jan. 17 to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake in western Japan, the Imperial Household Agency announced Monday.時事通信社 による

Japan's industry ministry on Tuesday released a draft of a new basic energy plan, vowing to use as much renewable and nuclear energy as possible to promote decarbonization.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government decided Tuesday to set up an expert panel for the introduction in 2027 of a new system to accept foreign workers.時事通信社 による

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Monday announced his nomination of businessman George Glass to serve as ambassador to Japan.時事通信社 による

SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Monday announced that the Japanese company will invest 100 billion dollars in the United States over the next four years.時事通信社 による

A long-established Japanese sake brewery is attempting to make a foray into a potentially massive Indian market, following the recent addition of sake brewing skills to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list.時事通信社 による

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that he could meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba before he takes office next month.時事通信社 による

The Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, plans to appoint Nippon Life Insurance Co. Chairman Yoshinobu Tsutsui as the next head of the biggest business lobby in the country, people familiar with the matter said Monday.時事通信社 による

Japan and nine other countries plus the European Union on Monday issued a joint statement by their foreign ministers condemning military cooperation between North Korea and Russia.時事通信社 による

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan agreed Monday to decide by next March whether to ban donations from companies and other organizations.時事通信社 による

The agriculture and environment ministries Monday released a draft target of reducing Japan's annual food loss at food-related businesses by 60pctfrom the fiscal 2000 level by fiscal 2030.時事通信社 による

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party decided Monday not to seek a public offices election law revision to ban inappropriate election posters during the current session of the Diet, Japan's parliament.時事通信社 による

Japan ranked 29th for labor productivity among the 38 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a survey by the Japan Productivity Center showed Monday.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Monday it is necessary to raise the minimum annual taxable income from 1.03 million yen to 1.78 million yen as agreed on by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, its coalition partner, Komeito, and the opposition Democratic Party for the People.時事通信社 による

Efforts are spreading in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Miyagi to bring back seagrass beds damaged by the March 2011 huge earthquake and tsunami, driven by blue carbon hopes.時事通信社 による

Work to erect two fences was conducted at a Mount Fuji photo spot especially popular with foreign tourists in the town of Fujikawaguchiko in Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, on Monday as a measure against overtourism.時事通信社 による

Japanese space development startup Space One Co. said Monday that it has rescheduled the launch of the No. 2 unit of its Kairos small rocket carrying satellites for 11 a.m. Wednesday.時事通信社 による

The Japanese opposition Democratic Party for the People's tax chief Monday hinted at the possible termination of discussions with the ruling bloc over the lifting of the minimum annual taxable income threshold from 1.03 million yen.時事通信社 による

Nuclear power is estimated to be cheaper than thermal power in terms of generation costs in 2040, Japan's industry ministry said Monday.時事通信社 による

Tokyo Police have arrested a 44-year-old official of Japan's Finance Ministry for allegedly upskirting at a train station in Tokyo.時事通信社 による

Japanese electronics and heavy machinery giant Hitachi Ltd. said Monday that it will promote Executive Vice President Toshiaki Tokunaga to president April 1 next year.時事通信社 による

MUFG Bank President Junichi Hanzawa on Monday apologized for thefts by a then employee of customer assets worth more than 1 billion yen in total from safe deposit boxes.時事通信社 による

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has decided to drop a plan to allow some political expenditures to be kept secret, in the face of strong opposition from opposition parties, it was learned Monday.時事通信社 による

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Monday that the relocation of U.S. Marines from Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, to Guam, which started on Saturday, is of "great significance."時事通信社 による

Japanese movies are riding on a wave of popularity in China, despite Beijing's restrictions on imported film.時事通信社 による

Japan's Financial Services Agency has ordered MUFG Bank to submit a report on a former employee stealing over 1 billion yen in customer assets from safe deposit boxes, people familiar with the matter said Monday.時事通信社 による

Akie Abe, the widow of the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, met with incoming U.S. President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Sunday.時事通信社 による

Japan's seasonally adjusted core machinery orders went up 2.1pctin October from the previous month to 869.8 billion yen, the Cabinet Office said Monday.時事通信社 による

Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki on Sunday called on the Japanese government to show a concrete timetable for the transfer of U.S. Marines in Okinawa to Guam, following the recent start of the relocation.時事通信社 による

Japan's industry ministry held on Sunday a briefing session in Niigata Prefecture to seek understanding from local people for the envisaged restart of reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant.時事通信社 による

Japan's Space One Co. said Sunday it has decided to put off the launch of the second unit of its Kairos small rocket scheduled for the day, following the postponement the previous day.時事通信社 による

Japan Post Co. started accepting New Year's cards for 2025 on Sunday.時事通信社 による

Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump is considering picking businessman George Glass as ambassador to Japan, U.S. television network CBS reported Saturday.時事通信社 による

Two junior high school students were stabbed by a man at a McDonald's hamburger shop in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on Saturday night.時事通信社 による

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi on Saturday showed hope for cooperating with incoming U.S. President Donald Trump over the issue of North Korea's abduction of Japanese nationals.時事通信社 による

Relocation of U.S. Marines in Okinawa Prefecture, southernmost Japan, to Guam has started, Japan's Defense Ministry said Saturday.時事通信社 による

Tokyo police on Saturday distributed flyers asking members of the public for any information on the murder of four members of a family in the Japanese capital's Setagaya Ward in late December 2000 as a suspect has not been held 24 years after the tragedy.時事通信社 による

Foreign ministers of Japan and member nations of the Caribbean Community, or CARICOM, held a meeting in Tokyo on Saturday.時事通信社 による

Space One Co. decided Saturday to delay the launch of the second unit of its Kairos small rocket carrying satellites to Sunday morning.時事通信社 による

Leaders of the Group of Seven democracies in a videoconference on Friday expressed hope that the collapse of the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad will be the start of a peaceful and orderly transition of power in the country.時事通信社 による

The Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade framework, led by countries including Japan and Australia, is set to welcome Britain as its 12th member on Sunday.時事通信社 による

The Diet, Japan's parliament, may start next year's ordinary session on Jan. 21, with the next House of Councillors election to take place on July 13, it was learned Friday.時事通信社 による

Central Japan Railway Co., or JR Tokai, said Friday that it will change about half of the unisex bathrooms on Shinkansen bullet trains to female-only facilities, in light of a rise in the number of female passengers.時事通信社 による

A delegation from the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, returned home on Friday after receiving the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize at the award ceremony in the Norwegian capital of Oslo on Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Japan's ruling coalition on Friday proposed that the minimum annual taxable income be raised from the current 1.03 million yen to 1.23 million yen, starting next year.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba may visit the United States in February at the earliest to hold his first meeting with Donald Trump, who will return to the White House in January, Akihisa Nagashima, special adviser to Ishiba, said in an interview with Jiji Press on Friday.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday he will visit Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s disaster-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima on Saturday.時事通信社 による

The Shizuoka prefectural government Friday unveiled the outline of a draft ordinance calling for collecting 4,000 yen per person from those climbing Mount Fuji from the central Japan prefecture, starting next summer.時事通信社 による

Naha District Court on Friday sentenced a 25-year-old U.S. airman to five years in prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting an underage girl in Okinawa Prefecture, southernmost Japan, in December last year.時事通信社 による

Fukuoka High Court ruled Friday that Japan's Civil Code and other provisions that do not recognize same-sex marriage are unconstitutional as they violate the right to pursue happiness, among other reasons.時事通信社 による