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The traditional Misoma Hajime Sai ceremony, in which sacred trees are felled for timber to house Shinto deities at the famed ...
Three major convenience store chains will begin selling older rice released from government reserves, with the first batch ...
Major League Baseball’s viewer numbers in the United States and Japan during the first two months of the season have seen ...
Shigeo Nagashima, a true giant in Japanese baseball and one of the country’s most popular athletes, died of pneumonia at a ...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s high tariffs levied on imports are tossing the world around and leading to irreversible global ...
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba appears willing to dissolve the Lower House and call a snap election before opposition parties ...
OSAKA--A Japanese man in ninja attire was calling out in perfect English to passers-by at the Japan Expo venue here in late ...
The government has decided on a basic policy direction for the huge volume of contaminated soil resulting from the 2011 ...
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi told reporters on June 3 that the government is considering buying back stockpiled rice from ...
Japanese government officials have expressed both optimism and caution over the future of bilateral relations under South ...
Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter, Princess Aiko, visited Okinawa Prefecture on June 4 ahead of the 80th ...
Ibaraki Prefecture is seeking to host the country's first demonstration reactor for next-generation nuclear technology known ...