The official announcement of the first snow settling on Mount Fuji came on November 7 this year, which is the latest ever ...

The appearance of snow at the peak of the mountain was 36 days later than average and 33 days later than last year, according to the meteorological office in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture. The previous ...

At the meeting, LDP Diet affairs chief Tetsushi Sakamoto and his CDP counterpart, Hirofumi Ryu, also agreed to continue to allocate the top post of the Lower House's Rules and Administration Committee ...

Tokyo, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Thursday that it has completed the trial removal of nuclear fuel debris from a crippled reactor at its Fukushima No. 1 ...

Kobe, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)--A 45-year-old inmate serving an indefinite prison sentence for the 2004 murder of a girl in Okayama Prefecture, western Japan, was arrested Thursday in a case in which ...

Tokyo, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)--Executives of Komeito, the junior party in Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's ruling coalition, Thursday agreed to name land minister Tetsuo Saito as its new leader.

Japan’s October 2024 general election ended in a brutal takedown for the LDP. Having lost the majority it held since 2012, ...

Kanazawa, Ishikawa Pref., Nov. 3 (Jiji Press)--Residents of areas struck by the Jan. 1 Noto Peninsula earthquake in central Japan have expressed dissatisfaction over the results of local ...

Tokyo, Oct. 31 (Jiji Press)--Toyota Motor Corp. and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. agreed Thursday to develop a driver ...

Tokyo, Nov. 3 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese Order of Culture was conferred on seven people, including manga artist Tetsuya Chiba, 85, in a ceremony held at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Sunday.

Tokyo, Nov. 3 (Jiji Press)--The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the Democratic Party for the People, two opposition parties supported by the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or ...

The major birthdays of Hello Kitty (who was “born” on November 1, 1974) coincide uncannily with the performance milestones of her creator, Sanrio. In the fiscal year that ended in March 1999 ...