Tokyo, Feb. 6 (Jiji Press)--Toyota Motor Corp. said Friday it will promote Chief Financial Officer Kenta Kon to president and ...

Yamaguchi, Feb. 7 (Jiji Press)--A male diver died Saturday after falling ill during a survey to search for the remains of victims of the 1942 underwater coal mine disaster off Ube, Yamaguchi ...

Jakarta, Feb. 7 (Jiji Press)--A gas container using a technology developed by Japanese Nobel Prize winner Susumu Kitagawa is drawing attention, with demonstration tests underway. The container, seen ...

Cairo, Feb. 7 (Jiji Press)--The Japan External Trade Organization, or JETRO, has opened an event to promote Japanese pop culture in Cairo, the capital of Egypt.

Japanese telecommunications company KDDI Corp. said Friday that it has overstated sales by up to 246 billion yen for the year ending in March due to fictitious transactions involving its internet ...

Takagi Miho exploded onto the speed-skating scene as a 15-year-old Olympian. Now an experienced veteran, she is heading to the Milano Cortina games with the goal of winning her first ever gold in the ...

Tokyo, Feb. 6 (Jiji Press)--Japan's ratio of household spending on food hit a 44-year high in 2025, reflecting elevated food prices, an internal affairs ministry survey showed Friday.

Tokyo, Feb. 6 (Jiji Press)--The Bank of Japan may raise interest rates in March at the earliest if the yen weakens further, although a rate hike in April appears to be the main scenario, Ryutaro Kono, ...

Jiji Press assessed posts made by party chiefs on X, formerly Twitter, between Jan. 27, when the official campaign period for Sunday's House of Representatives election kicked off, and Thursday, and ...

Continuing his analysis of the perception gap behind the latest flare-up of Japan-China tensions, Jimbo Ken stresses the need ...

Aso, who heads the LDP's only remaining intraparty faction, aims to increase the number of lawmakers belonging to his faction ...

Defendant Yusuke Hashimoto, 49, former head of hepatobiliary and pancreatic oncology at the National Cancer Center Hospital ...