A box of two Yubari melons fetched a record 5.8 million yen at this season's first auction held in the city of Sapporo in the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido on Friday. The winning bid came ...

Japan's core consumer price index rose 1.4 pct in April from a year earlier, marking the 56th consecutive month of growth, the internal affairs ministry said Friday. The core CPI, which excludes ...

Justice Minister Hiroshi Hiraguchi on Friday announced a new policy package aimed at strengthening measures against foreign nationals staying and working in Japan illegally. The package, called the ...

Japan's inflation-adjusted real wages fell 0.5 pct in fiscal 2025 from the previous year, down for the fourth straight year, the labor ministry said Friday. The pace of decline was unchanged from the ...

Major Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. plans to begin producing two popular minivan models in Taiwan in October and sell them in Japan as part of efforts to ease delivery delays caused by labor ...

Japan's university graduate employment rate stood at 98.0 pct as of April 1, matching the year-earlier level, which was the second-highest on record, according to government survey data released ...

One or more of the four 16-year-old boys arrested in last week's high-profile robbery-murder case in Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, had been told to do a normal part-time job, Jiji Press learned ...

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average briefly gained more than 1,300 points in morning trading Friday as high-tech names were bought aggressively amid expectations for an end to the conflict ...

Japan's Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko have visited a special exhibition in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward celebrating the 160th anniversary of Japan-Belgium diplomatic relations ahead of its ...

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat has partnered with Rendeavour, Africa's new city builder, to ...

An Osprey transport aircraft of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force is expected to use a U.S. military base in the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa for the first time in an upcoming exercise ...

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