Nippon Steel sues Toyota Motor and a Chinese steelmaker, claiming they violated a patent for producing a steel part used...

Prime Minister Kishida dissolves the House of Representatives to hold a general election.

Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi starts the final phase of clinical trials for its COVID-19 oral drug.

Police and fire department officials inspect JR East’s electrical substation which caught fire and disrupted train servi...

Tokyo's Nippori-Toneri Liner trains are back in service after suspension due to earthquake damage.

Convenience stores in Japan are considering ways to sell alcoholic beverages and cigarettes that require age verificatio...

Honda Motor becomes the first Japanese automaker to start online sales of new cars in Japan.

The Takashimaya department store begins a project to recycle clothes by collecting used ones, manufacturing new outfits ...

The private sector is starting to offer discounts and other perks to people who have been inoculated twice with the coro...

Japan's newly elected Prime Minister Kishida Fumio vows to promote a "new capitalism".