Tokyo, May 7 (Jiji Press)--The average price of rice sold at around 1,000 supermarkets across Japan in the week through April 27 hit its highest level on record dating back to March 2022, for the ...

Tokyo, May 7 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and Princess Aiko will visit the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa for two days from June 4, the Imperial Household Agency ...

Tokyo, May 7 (Jiji Press)--Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. will set up an online bank in fiscal 2026, which ends in March 2027, it was learned Wednesday. Amid intensifying competition in the ...

Berlin, May 7 (Jiji Press)--Germany's new government led by Chancellor Friedrich Merz is expected to deepen defense cooperation with Japan, according to a senior think tank official. In view of ...

Tokyo, May 7 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government has been taking steps to prepare for future pandemics since it downgraded COVID-19 to a lower-risk category of infectious diseases that includes ...

Not Wanting to Accept Dementia Onzō Ayako first noticed changes in her mother, then aged 65, in 2015. There was a series of incidents, such as when her mother went to the convenience store to buy ...

Osaka, May 7 (Jiji Press)--Kazuo Sumi, former president and chairman of railway operator Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc., died at his house in the city of Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan ...

Tokyo, May 7 (Jiji Press)--Senior officials of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner Komeito agreed Wednesday that new economic measures should be drawn up before this ...

Soaring temperatures brought a significant rise in heatstroke alerts in Japan in 2024, which are triggered when the heat index is expected to be 33 or higher. Alerts for 2025 started from late April.

Tokyo, May 6 (Jiji Press)--Japan's so-called employment ice age generation, now in their 40s to 50s, faces an increasing risk of suffering poverty in old age even if they fully receive basic ...

Tokyo, May 7 (Jiji Press)--Popular Japanese pop group Arashi has announced that it will end its activities after holding a concert tour around next spring. According to the announcement made ...

Tokyo, April 28 (Jiji Press)--With this year marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and ...