In November last year, the Chinese government reacted with furious rhetoric and punishing actions to Prime Minister Takaichi ...

Starting November 1, Japan's new tax-free shopping system will require international visitors to pay consumption tax at the ...

Despite the uncertainty introduced by the Trump administration to the international order and the Japan-US relationship, ...

Professor Kubo Fumiaki is a senior adjunct fellow at the Japan Institute for International Affairs. He is also a former ...

Despite administrative efforts to cut overtime, a recent survey finds that unreduced workloads mean most schoolteachers in ...

The director Miyazaki Hayao and other leading anime creators have a surprising number of connections to Nagano in central ...

The twentieth century brought fresh focuses on a number of different audiences in the manga field. One of these was shōjo ...

Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)--More than 90 pct of bicycle users said they had felt unsafe while riding on roads shared with automobiles, a survey by a Tokyo-based bicycle parking lot operator has found ...

A business mission led by Ken Kobayashi, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has begun a week-long visit ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a condolence message on Tuesday to the bereaved family of former Japanese Prime Minister ...

The LDP and its coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party, submitted to the special Diet session that ended in July a ...

New York, Oct. 27 (Jiji Press)--A U.N. General Assembly committee adopted by majority vote a Japan-led resolution seeking the ...