Black watermelon fetches sweet price
A black Densuke watermelon sells for 500,000 yen (more than 4,500 dollars) as the year's first auctions of the fruit are...
read moreHaagen-Dazs recalls 2.74m cups over contaminants
Haagen-Dazs Japan is recalling 2.74 million cups of ice cream after pieces of black rubber were found inside a product.
read moreTakahama No.3 reactor back online
Another of Japan's nuclear reactors is restarted, bringing to 5 the total number in operation.
read moreSagawa Express introduces 4-day workweek
Sagawa Express introduces a four-day workweek for new recruits in Tokyo and Yamanashi Prefecture.
read moreWalk-assist gear hits market
A Japanese auto parts maker launches a product that puts a spring into the step of elderly people. The gear has neither ...
read moreJobs-to-applicants ratio hits 43-year high
Japan's government says the jobs-to-applicants ratio for April is the highest in 43 years.
read moreNew growth strategy to allow real-world autonomous car tests
Japan's new growth strategy would allow real-world testing of new technologies like fully autonomous cars.
read moreJapan bids farewell to beloved snack
Much of Japan will bid farewell to beloved snack Curl as Meiji curtails production amid a shrinking child population.
read moreIshihara heads to Hanoi for TPP talks
Japan's minister in charge of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks leaves for Vietnam.
read moreNew Toyosu probe finds benzene 100x standards
A new study of contamination at the planned relocation site for Tokyo's famous Tsukiji fish market finds benzene one-hun...
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