By Motoko Rich Kiuko Notoya and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo Japan’s governing party lost its majority in parliamentary elections on Sunday, as voters delivered an emphatic rejection of the ...

the Japan Meteorological Agency announced. As of Friday 9 a.m., it moved toward northwest with the central pressure 996 hectopascals. Maximum instantaneous wind speed is 25 meters per second. It is ...

NAHA CITY, Okinawa — A U.S. airman should serve seven years for sexually assaulting an underage girl on Okinawa in December, a Japanese prosecutor argued in court Friday. The three-judge panel ...

So goes an anecdote making the rounds in Japanese tech circles. It suggests that Japan is a land of opportunity when it comes to AI. The tale is instructive. Japanese do feel relatively little ...

TOKYO/NAHA — Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party President Shigeru Ishiba’s long-standing call to revise the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement has been causing a stir in Okinawa Prefecture ...

“You can feel that this tree is still alive.” Some 140 years ago, laborers on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands, soaked a massive felled tree in the ocean for 12 month ...

TOKYO, Oct 22 (Reuters) - The risk of Japan ending up with a minority coalition government after the upcoming general election is raising concerns that the central bank could face complications in ...

The very real threat to life, especially in Okinawa, is an urgent problem being tackled by a dedicated bomb squad.

If you are actually flying from Okinawa, Japan to Tokyo, Japan or if you are just curious to know the flight time between Okinawa and Tokyo, this page will give you the information you are looking for ...

Jamshedpur, Oct 17: The general meeting (AGM) of the Jusco Shramik Union, the authorized union for Tata Steel UISL (formerly Jusco), concluded peacefully, marking significant changes in its ...

In a briefing at the headquarters of Japan’s self-defence forces in Naha, Okinawa’s capital, there are few opening formalities. Instead, a series of stark ratios flash across the screen.

The tourism sun is shining bright over Japan as visitor numbers and revenues reach an all-time high in 2024. The challenge: sustaining the growth through 2025. Japan's foreign visitor spending ...