In an annual event, Mataro showcased its "kawaribina" dolls, including one of Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, who ...

Tokyo, Nov. 28 (Jiji Press)--A senior official of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, ...

Tokyo, Nov. 28 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba plans to visit South Korea early next January for talks ...

Tokyo, Nov. 28 (Jiji Press)--A fire broke out at the home of Japanese lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi in Tokyo on Wednesday ...

In the nine years since the first same-sex partnership certificates were introduced by the Tokyo municipalities of Shibuya and Setagaya, the system has expanded to cover 85.1% of the Japanese ...

Tokyo, Nov. 26 (Jiji Press)--A Japanese government task force on Tuesday compiled a report seeking the strengthening of support for disaster-affected people, including through the introduction of ...

Tokyo, Nov. 24 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya is coordinating a visit to China within this year at the ...

Kasukabe, Saitama Pref., Nov. 25 (Jiji Press)--Japanese supermarket chain Ito-Yokado Co. on Sunday closed its store in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, that is known as the model for the "Sato ...

Sodō (1642–1716) was born in Kai province (now Yamanashi Prefecture). He traveled to Edo (now Tokyo) as a young man to study Confucianism, where he became friends with Bashō, two years his ...

Kibichuo, Okayama Pref., Nov. 25 (Jiji Press)--The town of Kibichuo in Okayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Monday started blood tests for residents after PFAS, potentially carcinogenic chemicals ...

Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 23 (Jiji Press)--The 29th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change ...

Nagoya, Nov. 24 (Jiji Press)--Ichiro Hirosawa, former deputy mayor of Nagoya, the capital of Aichi Prefecture, won Sunday's mayoral election in the central Japan city, defeating his six contenders ...