Ōita, May 25 (Jiji Press)―With its population shrinking, Ōita Prefecture has since fiscal 2016 ramped up effor […]
Tokyo, May 24 (Jiji Press)―Japanese electronics giant Hitachi Ltd. said Wednesday it has developed a new techn […]
Japan has changed fundamentally since the era of rapid economic growth, yet Japanese companies remain wedded t […]
Pago-chan, the mascot of Ikaruga in Nara Prefecture, stands next to a boxed lunch made in the spitting image o […]
Six years after the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the government has lifted evacuat […]
A carpet of blooming poppies extends in all directions at Shōwa Kinen Park in Tokyo on May 22, 2017. As summer […]
Tokyo, May 22 (Jiji Press)―The Japanese government is considering a system to grant official status to former […]
Economist Tsuru Kōtarō assesses the virtues, failings, and implications of the government’s action plan for “w […]
The online commerce boom has brought crisis to Japan’s delivery companies, which cannot handle the increased v […]
A municipal employee at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park carefully examines books inscribed with the names of […]