HEADLINES
Trump, Xi voice hope to improve US-China ties as they b...
BEIJING (Kyodo) -- U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping ...
Editorial: Forcing through lower house seat cuts would ...
Treating a cut in the number of seats in Japan's House of Representatives as a f...
Baseball: Ohtani tosses 7 shutout innings, pitches Dodg...
LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) -- A dominant Shohei Ohtani threw seven scoreless innings to...
Japan sisters take matcha across US to spread tea cultu...
TSU -- Driven by a desire to spread the appeal of matcha tea and peace overseas,...
Japan's Takaichi mulls Britain, Italy visits before G7 ...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is considering traveling...
Japan 'robot wolves' in high demand to scare off bears
A Japanese company making ferocious-looking robot wolves is being swamped by ord...
M5.0 quake hits Iwate Prefecture in northeast Japan
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 struck an inland area of Iwate...
Nikkei ends at record high above 63,000, boosted by rob...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Nikkei stock index ended at a record high on Wednesday, boo...
Japan OKs insurance coverage for ¥55.3 mil Parkinson's ...
A Japanese health ministry panel on Wednesday approved public health insurance c...
Japan's 3 megabanks set to use Anthropic's latest AI fo...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's three megabanks, including MUFG Bank, are expected to g...
Emperor, empress to visit Netherlands, Belgium in June
Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will travel to the Netherlands and Belgium f...
Cormorant fishing season opens in central Japan
The 1,300-year-old ukai cormorant fishing tradition returned to the Nagara River...
Japan's reapproval of MMR vaccine brings hope to doctor...
TOKYO -- People in Japan will again be able to access the measles, mumps and rub...
Japan FY 2025 current account surplus hits record high ...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan posted a record-high current account surplus of 34.52 tri...
INTERVIEW: Figure skating star Kagiyama to consider fut...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's two-time Olympic silver medalist Yuma Kagiyama, who has...
Editorial: Japan must ensure Imperial Family succession...
The opposition Centrist Reform Alliance (CRA) has compiled its position on measu...
