Empress Emerita Michiko turned 92 on October 20.According to the Imperial Household Agency, she continues light daily ex...

Firefighters and police entered a shopping district near the Geku, or Outer Shrine, of Ise Grand Shrine in Mie Prefectur...

Princess Aiko, the daughter of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, visited an area in the city of Tottori, western Japa...

Osaka’s Dotonbori area is known for the iconic Glico runner sign, one of the western Japanese city’s most popular touris...

S/ Takebe Arata, Agriculture minister / I believe the remarks made by former minister Yana should never have been made, ...

At around 12:40 p.m. on October 16, the Japan Meteorological Agency issued an emergency earthquake warning, urging peopl...

Author Murakami Haruki’s globally popular novel “Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World” has been adapted for ...

Sompo Japan Insurance announced that there was unauthorized access to a server of a contractor responsible for managing ...

S/ Soai Kenso, Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University of Science / I am very pleased that this award helps highlight and b...

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been announced, with Soai Kenso of Tokyo University of Science named as one of t...