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City in Aichi abolishes 88th birthday celebratory money...
Keiro no Hi, known as Respect for the Aged Day in English, is a public holiday i...
Growth strategies needed to realize pay hikes pledged b...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Wage hikes to help tackle rising prices have become a key topic...
Tokyo stocks flat in morning as US government shutdown ...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks were flat Tuesday morning, as buying following ove...
Outgoing Japan PM Ishiba to visit S. Korea to showcase ...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will travel to ...
Toyota global sales up 2.2% in Aug. on solid US demand
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Toyota Motor Corp. said Monday its global sales in August rose ...
Central Japan city adopts academic check proposed by ma...
ITO, Shizuoka -- The mayor of this central Japan city revealed Sept. 29 that, at...
What happens to the animals after a zoo in Japan closes?
SAPPORO -- The private North Safari Sapporo, established in this northern Japan ...
Foreigners in Japan with skilled visa hits record high
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's immigration agency said Tuesday that the number of fore...
Sapporo urges caution after spate of bear sightings nea...
SAPPORO -- Repeated sightings of brown bears near a residential area in this nor...
Editorial: Statistical accuracy vital in tackling chall...
The national census, conducted every five years, is underway in Japan. It provid...
US says Japan still not doing enough to combat human tr...
WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- Japan has been making "significant efforts" toward meeting...
Driver killed, 9 kindergarten children injured in car c...
A van carrying kindergartners on Monday crashed into a residential property in C...
What to watch during MLB's best-of-three Wild Card Seri...
PHOENIX (AP) -- Major League Baseball's postseason has delivered some spicy matc...
Demolition site fire burns at Tokyo's Haneda airport, f...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A fire broke out Monday at a demolition site near Tokyo's Haned...
Japan expresses regret as UN sanctions on Iran reimposed
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan on Sunday expressed regret as U.N. sanctions over Iran's ...
Driver killed, 9 kindergartners injured in car crash ne...
CHIBA, Japan (Kyodo) -- A van carrying kindergartners on Monday crashed into a r...
