Tokyo, Dec. 17 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. will proceed with business activities while closely ...

Tokyo, Dec. 17 (Jiji Press)--The political ethics panel of Japan's House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, ...

Wajima, Ishikawa Pref., Dec. 17 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako bowed to mourn flood victims in the ...

Tokyo, Dec. 17 (Jiji Press)--The House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament, approved on Tuesday three political reform bills including one to abolish so-called policy ...

Tokyo, Dec. 17 (Jiji Press)--Senior members of Japan's ruling and main opposition parties on Tuesday agreed to extend the ...

Tokyo, Dec. 16 (Jiji Press)--MUFG Bank President Junichi Hanzawa on Monday apologized for thefts by a then employee of customer assets worth more than 1 billion yen in total from safe deposit boxes.

The LDP will exclude the plan from its bill to revise the political funds control law, with the aim of passing it through the ...

Beijing, Dec. 16 (Jiji Press)--Japanese movies are riding on a wave of popularity in China, despite Beijing's restrictions on ...

It was part of meetings that the government plans to hold in all municipalities in the central Japan prefecture, except the city of Kashiwazaki and the village of Kariwa, which host the power plant, ...

Fukuoka, Dec. 15 (Jiji Press)--Two junior high school students were stabbed with what appeared to be a knife by a man at a ...

Tokyo, Dec. 14 (Jiji Press)--Foreign ministers of Japan and member nations of the Caribbean Community, or CARICOM, agreed at a meeting in Tokyo Saturday to enhance cooperation in disaster management ...

Kushimoto, Wakayama Pref., Dec. 14 (Jiji Press)--Space One Co. decided Saturday to delay the launch of the second unit of its Kairos small rocket carrying satellites to Sunday morning. The Tokyo-based ...