A fire department received an emergency call reporting a fire in a shopping street in Ise, Mie Prefecture, at around 3:15 p.m. on Monday.

An established Wajima-nuri lacquerware company in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, has created a replica of a lacquerware box cherished by French Queen Marie Antoinette (1755-93).

The Tokyo collection runway shows are the main event of Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo, which is organized by the Japan Fashion Week Organization. A total of 27 domestic and international brands will ...

The government has decided that the next set of national curriculum guidelines will significantly increase class time dedicated to teaching information education to elementary, junior high and high ...

The CRA suffered a crushing defeat in the lower house election, and the party has lacked momentum ever since. In a public opinion poll in August by The Yomiuri Shimbun, the party’s approval rating ...

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The yield on newly issued 10-year government bonds — a key indicator of long-term interest rates — temporarily rose to 3%, up 0.06% from the previous day’s closing price.

The Cabinet Office plans to ramp up efforts to utilize data from small synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites for infrastructure monitoring and other tasks starting next fiscal year, according to ...

The number of elderly people who have no one to rely on, such as relatives is on the rise. Communities across the country are struggling to find ways to take on the roles traditionally fulfilled by ...

Argentina superstar Lionel Messi announced his retirement from international soccer on Monday, ending 21 years of national-team duty that were capped by winning the World Cup in 2022 to secure his ...

General-account budget requests from Japanese government agencies and ministries for fiscal 2027 are expected to exceed ¥143 ...

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and his Belgian counterpart, Theo Francken, at a meeting in Tokyo on Monday agreed to deepen security cooperation between their countries.