Japan mandates businesses to charge customers for plastic shopping bags as part of efforts to tackle plastic waste. Stor...

Toyota Motor will allow eligible employees to permanently work from home. Until now workers needed special permission to...

A box of premium heart-shaped cherries sells for 300,000 yen at an auction in Aomori Prefecture. That makes a single Jun...

Japan's land prices increase 1.6 percent on average year on year, rising for the fifth year in a row.

Many stores in Japan begin charging customers for plastic shopping bags as part of the government's efforts to reduce pl...

Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea reopen after a four-month hiatus to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Job availability in Japan drops for the fifth consecutive month in May due to effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Starbucks will open its first sign language store in Japan on Saturday.

Toyota Motor and three major Japanese banks invest in a new fund for space development aimed at nurturing domestic start...

Japan's Fugaku supercomputer, developed jointly by Riken and Fujitsu, is ranked the fastest in the world.