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

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)--Cumulative spending by foreign visitors to Japan in January-September 2024 reached 5,858.2 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tuna has become a standard part of sushi and sashimi menus all around the world under its Japanese name: maguro. Japan has developed a reputation as the world’s largest tuna consumer, but some ...

When the Shinkansen started running 60 years ago, it took four hours to travel from Tokyo to Osaka. Now, it takes less than two and a half hours. When the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, hailed as a ...

Tokyo, Oct. 15 (Jiji Press)--The maximum vote-value disparity between single-seat constituencies in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Japan's parliament, has exceeded two times, a ...