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

Tokyo, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Nissan Motor Co. on Thursday reported a consolidated net profit of 19.2 billion yen for April-September, down 93.5 pct from a year before. The automaker also ...

Tokyo, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)--Mizuho Bank said Thursday that it will raise its long-term prime lending rate by 0.1 percentage point to 1.85 pct, the highest level in 15 years, effective Friday. The bank ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, 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 ...

Many Japanese cinema fans will already know Kawai Yūmi thanks to her breakthrough leading roles of the last two years. But the same might not be said of Yamanaka Yōko, the director of the 2024 ...