FamilyMart Co. will lower the prices of four of its onigiri rice balls by ¥11 each starting Sept. 22, the operator said Wednesday.

The Senate, the Diet’s upper house, recently renamed from the House of Councillors, renewed its website for the first time in 17 years.

A fleet of vessels, led by a gozabune boat carrying Kashima Shrine’s enshrined deity Takemikazuchi-no-Okami, navigates the Wani River in Ibaraki Prefecture on Wednesday morning.

A spectacular warrior procession featuring someone dressed as Minamoto no Yoritomo, the founder of the Kamakura shogunate, took place in central Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Aug. 16.

A 16-volume collection of works by Haruki Murakami will be published from January next year, Shinchosha Publishing Co. said on Tuesday.

An explosion near a German train station followed by the discovery of a suspicious object caused police to close the transport hub in the southern city of Augsburg on Wednesday morning. Trains were no ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent expressed strong support for Japan’s decisive market and monetary steps to address the substantial undervaluation of the yen at his meeting with Bank of Japan Gov ...

The rise in the yield on benchmark 10-year Japanese government bonds to the 3% threshold is driving up debt-servicing costs, placing heavy pressure on state finances and narrowing policy options for ...

U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln steamed into Thailand’s Laem Chabang on Wednesday after 286 days at sea, including a lengthy deployment in the Middle East, amid reports of mental health ...

Kimono-clad dancers delight onlookers as they parade down the street on the first day of the Owara Kaze no Bon Festival in Toyama City on Tuesday.

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. unveiled the latest model of its popular SUV Pajero on Wednesday, which will be available by next March.

More than 1,000 fatalities have been confirmed one week after a massive mudslide occurred on Aug. 26 near the border between Nepal and China. The deadly slide was triggered by the sudden collapse of a ...