Prime Minister Kishida Fumio eyes downgrading the classification of the coronavirus under Japan's infectious disease law...

Japan's consumer price index for December rises 4.0 percent from a year earlier, marking the highest level in the pace o...

Telecommunications firm Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East shows its edible cricket farm to media organizations.

A humpback whale appears in Tokyo Bay days after a sperm whale died in Osaka Bay.

Japan posts a record trade deficit of 19.97 trillion yen in 2022 due to effects of the weak yen and surges in crude oil ...

Two oarfish are caught in a squid fishing net set up off the shore of Toyama Prefecture in central Japan.

A horse chasing event takes place in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido to give horses an opportunity to make up fo...

An ecologically friendly ferry is unveiled at a port in Osaka, western Japan.

A festival takes place in southwestern Japan with the wish for safe and bountiful fishing.

Emperor Naruhito and other imperial family members read poetry at the annual New Year poetry reading.