An exhibition featuring exquisite items of Japanese arts and crafts opened at the Museum of the Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan, in the East Gardens of the Imperial Palace in Chiyoda Ward, ...

An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 4.7 struck the Kanto region at 2:40 p.m. on Tuesday, registering 3 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in Togane, Asahi and other parts of Chiba ...

KDDI Corp. has announced a partnership with California-based Wing Aviation LLC, a drone development company under Alphabet Inc. — the parent company of giant tech company Google LLC — to launch a ...

More than a week after revelations that a cyberattack had pierced the defenses of a GMO Internet Group, Inc., questions still remain over why internal warnings raised two years ago about the system’s ...

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A giant float parades through the center of Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, during the Karatsu Kunchi autumn festival. Lit with lanterns, 14 Hikiyama floats of the Yoiyama parade began their march in the ...

Fujifilm Corp. is set to release a new product in its “instax” instant camera series, the “instax mini Evo 2,” on Nov. 27.

Step inside the building, and the first thing to greet visitors is an entire 6.6-meter-high wall covered with wooden patterns.

Tuesday marked the 80th anniversary of the promulgation of the Constitution, but momentum for constitutional revision remains low in the Diet due to the numerous challenges faced by the ruling parties ...

It is the duty of the Diet to review the nation’s supreme law in light of changing times. Not a single motion for amendment has been put forward in the past 80 years, so the gap between the ...

At Hatcho Dejima, a promontory jutting out into Lake Chuzenji in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, azaleas, maples and beech trees have turned red and yellow, delighting the eyes of tourists. Visitors ...

The government aims to compile findings of its ongoing examination of medical tourism, where people seeking treatment and checkups travel to another country, as early as next fiscal year. Based on ...