Ogawa Yōko’s latest novel to be published in Japanese is a fable set in a community of shy, introverted people who avoid ...

Japanese media’s public opinion polls are out for November 2025, showing steady, high support for Prime Minister Takaichi ...

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)--Japan Broadcasting Corp., or NHK, will promote Executive Vice President Tatsuhiko Inoue, 68, to ...

Japan’s kamishibai is a type of paper theater storytelling where narrators dramatize tales depicted on a series of picture ...

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)--Taro Yamamoto won a third term as leader of Japanese opposition party Reiwa Shinsengumi on Monday ...

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)--A powerful earthquake struck Japan's Tohoku northeastern region, mainly Aomori Prefecture, on ...

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)--Japan's opposition forces agreed Monday to demand postponement of discussions on the ruling ...

Tokyo, Dec. 9 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Empress Masako turned 62 on Tuesday, with stronger hope for peace cultivated through her ...

Stockholm, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)--Kyoto University professor Susumu Kitagawa, one of the three winners of this year's Nobel ...

Bangkok, Dec. 9 (Jiji Press)--A 15-year-old junior high school girl from the northeastern Japan city of Yamagata has become ...

Stockholm, Dec. 7 (Jiji Press)--Shimon Sakaguchi, the Japanese winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, ...