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Nearly 160 Japanese people fly from Narita airport east of Tokyo to China's Guangzhou on a chartered flight. They includ...

Japan's household spending has continued to fall amid the coronavirus pandemic. But "nest spending" is a silver lining f...

Sushi restaurant chain operator Kura Sushi introduces an app that uses artificial intelligence to assess the quality of ...

Japan's household spending for May tumbles 16.2 percent from the previous year, renewing the record year-on-year fall se...

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...