Japan mandates businesses to charge customers for plastic shopping bags as part of efforts to tackle plastic waste. Stor...

Tokyo confirms 107 new coronavirus cases on Thursday. Many are customers and employees of nightlife venues. The capital ...

Toyota Motor will allow eligible employees to permanently work from home. Until now workers needed special permission to...

A box of premium heart-shaped cherries sells for 300,000 yen at an auction in Aomori Prefecture. That makes a single Jun...

Japan's land prices increase 1.6 percent on average year on year, rising for the fifth year in a row.

A new model of the Shinkansen bullet train goes into service between Tokyo and Hakata. The N700S is the first fully remo...

Many stores in Japan begin charging customers for plastic shopping bags as part of the government's efforts to reduce pl...

Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea reopen after a four-month hiatus to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.

The average income of Japanese lawmakers in 2019 was about 24.27 million yen, decreasing for the first time in four year...

Job availability in Japan drops for the fifth consecutive month in May due to effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic.