On Nov.07, the first day of winter according to the Japanese calendar, media were invited to see artisans at a Kyoto company making pickles known as "senmaizuke." Production surges around this ...

TOKYO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Japan's government is considering restarting ... public broadcaster NHK reported on Wednesday. The government is coordinating with the ruling parties and others to ...

An international survey on English language proficiency has ranked Japan a record low. The poll was conducted by a private firm which operates education services around the world and has been ...

Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) announced it will start simultaneous streaming of its television programs from April 1, which will allow people to watch the programs on their smartphones and other ...

Last month, during a Chinese-language news segment on Japan Broadcasting Corp.’s (NHK) international radio broadcast, an external Chinese staff member made unscripted comments after reading the ...

The leaders of Japan and South Korea have shared serious concerns about North Korea's military moves and agreed to continue working together bilaterally and trilaterally with the United States.

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru and Chinese President Xi Jinping have confirmed that they will work to build constructive and stable bilateral relations. Ishiba expressed Japan's concerns ...

Japan's nuclear regulatory body has officially decided that a nuclear power plant reactor in Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, failed a safety review for its restart. The rejection of restart plans ...

Japanese icefish fishing is at its peak in Lake Kasumigaura, northeast of Tokyo. The lake in Ibaraki Prefecture is known for fishing for icefish, or "shirauo" in Japanese. The annual catches there ...

Japan's new foreign minister, Iwaya Takeshi, and United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken have agreed to further strengthen the bilateral alliance and promote coordination with their like ...

Arrangements are underway for Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi, who is in Ukraine, to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday. Iwaya plans to use the meeting to convey Japan's ...

US cloud-based software firm Salesforce has announced the partial recovery of its services after a glitch affected the systems of some Japanese municipalities and financial institutions.