Just days after the conclusion of the 2025 APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi triggered controversy with her remarks during a parliament hearing on November 7. She ...

A cargo ship carrying plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel produced in France arrived at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear power plant in the central Japan prefecture of Fukui, ...

Japan's convenience store sector is undergoing a major shift, as store expansion slows amid limited room for rapid expansion at home and inbound tourism increasingly drives consumption. Lawson Inc. ai ...

SWS Medical, a leading provider of blood purification solutions in China, is set to demonstrate its innovative products at MEDICA 2025 in Düsseldorf, Germany, from November 17 to 21 (Hall 11/E14). As ...

Japanese private think tank Genron NPO has put off the announcement of the results of a Japan-China joint opinion poll, previously set for Monday, officials said Sunday. According to Genron NPO, its ...

Japanese and South Korean nonpartisan groups of lawmakers for bilateral friendship Sunday agreed to boost their countries' cooperation to a new height in all areas including politics, economy, society ...

China's Education Ministry on Sunday issued a notice urging the country's citizens to think carefully if they plan to study in Japan. The action is believed to be another retaliatory measure against J ...

A U.N. Human Rights Council group added 12 missing Japanese people not officially recognized as victims of North Korea's abductions to a list compiled to urge Pyongyang to confirm their safety, ...

A woman in her 40s was wounded in a knife attack by a man in Tokyo's busy Akasaka district Sunday morning, sources said. Around 10:30 a.m., police received an emergency call saying that a woman had be ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has drawn the ire of China by indicating the possibility that the Self-Defense Forces may be mobilized even without a direct attack on Japan in a possible Taiwan ...

A Jiji Press survey of researchers on Japan's retrial system has found that all 19 respondents support a proposed ban on prosecutors' appeals against decisions to initiate retrials. The 19 are among t ...

Japanese and South Korean nonpartisan groups of lawmakers for bilateral friendship held a joint plenary meeting in Seoul on Sunday to hold discussions on diplomacy, security, economy and culture. In a ...