The traditional Misoma Hajime Sai ceremony, in which sacred trees are felled for timber to house Shinto deities at the famed ...

Three major convenience store chains will begin selling older rice released from government reserves, with the first batch ...

Major League Baseball’s viewer numbers in the United States and Japan during the first two months of the season have seen ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba appears willing to dissolve the Lower House and call a snap election before opposition parties ...

Shigeo Nagashima, a true giant in Japanese baseball and one of the country’s most popular athletes, died of pneumonia at a ...

The government has decided on a basic policy direction for the huge volume of contaminated soil resulting from the 2011 ...

Japanese government officials have expressed both optimism and caution over the future of bilateral relations under South ...

Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi told reporters on June 3 that the government is considering buying back stockpiled rice from ...

Ibaraki Prefecture is seeking to host the country's first demonstration reactor for next-generation nuclear technology known ...

Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter, Princess Aiko, visited Okinawa Prefecture on June 4 ahead of the 80th ...

Ruling and opposition parties have essentially shelved talks in the Diet on whether to grant imperial family status to ...

Statue re-creations of an ancient dog breed modeled after fossilized remains excavated at the Makimuku ruins are now on ...