The Mie prefectural government has banned the use of the generative AI model developed by Chinese startup DeepSeek in its ...

The Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) plans to appoint Toyota Motor Corp. President Koji Sato as its next vice chair. The ...

Shinkansen bullet train services in Japan have been suspended or delayed due to heavy snow on Saturday morning.

Kyoto first became Japan’s capital in the eighth century. With its beautiful temples, philosophical gardens and elegant ...

The Naoshima New Museum of Art, designed by world-renowned architect Tadao Ando, is set to open on May 31 on Naoshima Island ...

When the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito lost its majority in last October’s general election, ...

President Donald Trump on Friday suggested that Nippon Steel would no longer buy U.S. Steel as planned, but the Japanese ...

Mounting concerns over the impact of the declining number of brick-and-mortar bookstores on the publishing industry as a ...

The Yomiuri Shimbun and Kodansha Ltd. have compiled a joint proposal for revitalizing bookstores in the face of a serious ...

A monument of a plastic model kit of a tuna has been unveiled at Shimizu reito Co., a food processing company in Shimizu Ward ...

Prosecutors and police searched a premises linked to merchu Inc. — a publicity agency in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture — on ...

A driver of a passenger car reported to police that his car was stuck after part of the road had caved in at about 7:50 a.m.