Concerns Spread in Snowy Areas over Wintertime Election

People in snowy regions in Japan are concerned about a snap election for the House of Representatives that is likely to be ...

Major Parties Other than JIP to Skip Osaka Double Election

Major Japanese political parties other than the Japan Innovation Party are expected not to participate in the upcoming double election for the governor of Osaka Prefecture and the mayor of Osaka, the ...

Both Ruling, Opposition Officials Tout Consumption Tax Cut

Senior officials from Japan's ruling and opposition camps both expressed willingness to cut the consumption tax, in a television debate on Sunday ahead of the anticipated general election. Shunichi ...

LiberNovo Omni Moss Green Officially Launched

The Moss Green edition retains the LiberNovo Omni's full Dynamic Support system, designed to respond continuously to the body ...

BOJ Absent from Global Central Bank Support for Fed's Powell

The Bank of Japan is adopting a wait-and-see approach over the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, while other central banks around the globe have ...

TEPCO Reports Error at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Plant

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Saturday that an alert system did not work during a test operation prior to the restart of the No. 6 reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in ...

Japan, India to Boost Collaboration in Economic Security, AI

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and his Indian counterpart, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, have agreed to boost collaboration in the fields of economic security and artificial intelligence, base ...

Japan Marks 31st Anniv. of Great Hanshin Earthquake

Bereaved families and others renewed their commitment to passing on their experiences and lessons from the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake in western Japan to future generations on Saturday, the 31st ...

Japan to Survey Safety Management at Sauna Facilities

Japan's health ministry has asked local governments across the country to survey safety management at sauna facilities following a fatal accident in Tokyo last December, Jiji Press learned Saturday.

Annual Unified University Entrance Exams Start in Japan

Japan's annual two-day unified university entrance examinations started on Saturday at 650 venues across the country. A total of 496,237 final-year high school students and others are taking the exams ...

CGTN: How China, Canada promote steady, solid and sound development of bilateral ties under new circumstances

CGTN published an article on Chinese President Xi Jinping's meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Centered on the development of bilateral relations, the article highlighted that the two ...

CDP's Noda Likely to Be PM Candidate of New Centrist Party

Yoshihiko Noda, leader of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, is likely to be the prime minister candidate of the Centrist Reform Alliance, a new party jointly formed by the ...