Tokyo, Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)--Japan's labor shortage will reach 17.75 million hours per day in 2035, equivalent to 3.84 ...

Tokyo, Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba made a ritual "masakaki" tree offering at Yasukuni Shrine ...

Tokyo, Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)--A Liberal Democratic Party faction led by LDP Secretary-General Hiroshi Moriyama has ...

Tokyo, Oct. 16 (Jiji Press)--Japanese political parties are trying to lure voters by pledging to implement measures to reduce ...

Tokyo, Oct. 16 (Jiji Press)--Cumulative spending by foreign visitors to Japan in January-September 2024 reached 5,858.2 ...

Kirino Natsuo’s novel Tsubame wa modotte konai (The Swallows Don’t Return) deals with surrogate pregnancy, where people who cannot have children themselves instead rely on another woman to ...

Tokyo, Oct. 16 (Jiji Press)--The share of female executives at Japanese companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s top-tier Prime section has risen to 16.8 pct, up 2.7 percentage points from ...

Tokyo, Oct. 16 (Jiji Press)--Suzuki Motor Corp. released its all-new Fronx compact SUV in Japan on Wednesday, introducing the global strategic vehicle in the country's highly competitive SUV market.

Sapporo/Tokyo, Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)--Japan confirmed this season's first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza at a poultry farm Thursday, the earliest-ever outbreak at a farm in a bird flu ...

Istanbul, Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)--A bus carrying 20 Japanese tourists and a guide overturned on a major road in Afyonkarahisar, western Turkey, on Thursday. Passengers underwent medical examinations ...

As the scene of one of the fiercest and most destructive battles of World War II, it would be fair to assume that the people of Palau would harbor a degree of resentment toward Japan and the Japanese.