Manila, Sept. 20 (Jiji Press)--Economy ministers from Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed at a meeting in Manila on Sunday to begin a study on expanding the Japan-ASEAN ...

During the same 10-year period, there were 59 wheelchair accidents involving elderly people, including 26 cases in which ...

The proportion of this age group in Japan's overall population rose 0.2 percentage point to a record high of 29.6 pct. This ...

Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto Pref., Sept. 20 (Jiji Press)--Kumagawa Railroad Co., a public-private railway operator in the ...

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Autumn in Japan brings crisp, clear skies, making it an ideal season for tsukimi, the tradition of admiring the moon. The fifteenth night of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is known as the ...

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Naha, Okinawa Pref., Sept. 19 (Jiji Press)--Two Chinese research vessels were spotted operating in Japan's exclusive economic zone off Kubashima, an island in Japan's southernmost prefecture of ...

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth held phone talks on Friday night and reaffirmed their countries' commitment to advancing a wide range of security ...

Autumn 2026 has shown the first signs in more than four years of a weakening of the yen’s value. Massive intervention in ...

Tokyo, Sept. 18 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Friday that he will visit New York from Sunday to attend a U.N. General Assembly session.