HEADLINES
Japan to buy back up to 150,000 tons of released stockp...
TOKYO -- Japan's agriculture ministry plans to buy back up to 150,000 metric ton...
Japanese travelers to China drastically decrease
The number of Japanese travelers to China has drastically decreased after Prime ...
Japan ranked 62nd in press freedom, just above U.S.; as...
Reporters Without Borders placed Japan 62nd among 180 countries and regions in t...
Japan conducted intervention to stem yen's fall against...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese authorities intervened in the currency market on Thurs...
Japan ranked 62nd in press freedom, just above US, as N...
PARIS (Kyodo) -- Reporters Without Borders placed Japan 62nd among 180 countries...
Tokyo Fire Department warns of rising heatstroke risk, ...
TOKYO -- The Tokyo Fire Department is urging residents to take early precautions...
Tokyo stocks mixed in morning on tech gains, yen's surg...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks were mixed Friday morning, with gains by some heav...
Beijing bans drone sales to tighten security in capital
BEIJING (Kyodo) -- Beijing on Friday implemented a ban on drone sales and leases...
Tennis: Japan tennis icon Kei Nishikori announces retir...
NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- Japanese tennis icon and former world No. 4 Kei Nishikori sa...
Japan's Kanuma offers race car as return gift for $200,...
KANUMA, Tochigi -- This eastern Japan city has added a domestically made, entry-...
Trump administration says its war in Iran has been 'ter...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration is arguing that the war in Iran has ...
Nissan to scrap US EV production plan amid slowing demand
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nissan Motor Co. said Friday it will scrap its plan to produce ...
Easy Japanese news in translation: Murakami reaches 10 ...
On April 22, Munetaka Murakami, a 26-year-old player for the Chicago White Sox i...
Mountain festival marks spring arrival high above Tokyo
A centuries-old festival that heralds spring drew hundreds of worshippers to a m...
Japan parliamentary group eyes S. Korea trip in mid-May...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The new head of a bipartisan group of Japanese lawmakers promot...
Editorial: Wildfire in Japan's Iwate Pref. must be put ...
Every effort must be made to quickly extinguish the wildfire in northeast Japan'...
