Nissan Motor Co. said Friday that it has decided to abandon its plan to build a battery plant for electric vehicles in the city of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan.時事通信社 による

Japan hopes to develop its ties with the Vatican further under new Pope Leo XIV, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Friday.時事通信社 による

Japan will keep asking the United States to scrap additional tariffs on vehicle and other imports launched by U.S. President Donald Trump, economic revitalization minister Ryosei Akazawa said Friday.時事通信社 による

Japanese household spending in fiscal 2024, which ended in March, dropped 0.1pctfrom the previous year in price-adjusted real terms, down for the second straight year, the internal affairs ministry said Friday.時事通信社 による

Japan Airport Terminal Co. President Nobuaki Yokota and Chairman Isao Takashiro resigned Friday amid a corruption scandal involving the operating company for Tokyo's Haneda Airport terminals and a son of Makoto Koga, former secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.時事通信社 による

Japanese Princess Kako will make an official visit to Brazil for two weeks from June 4, according to a plan approved by the Japanese government at a cabinet meeting on Friday.時事通信社 による

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins will visit seven countries including Japan over the next five months to discuss ways to improve market access for U.S. farm products, the Department of Agriculture said Thursday.時事通信社 による

Japan's inflation-adjusted real wage index in March fell 2.1pctfrom a year before, down for the third straight month, the labor ministry said Friday.時事通信社 による

Japan's three major shipping companies expect their consolidated net profits in fiscal 2025 to plunge around 50-70pctfrom the previous year, projecting a drop in transportation of automobiles and other goods due to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff measures.時事通信社 による

Japan and Australia have reaffirmed their close cooperation in the security field in response to North Korea's launch of ballistic missiles Thursday.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Jordanian Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II have affirmed their countries' cooperation toward the realization of peace in the Middle East.時事通信社 による

The Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, on Thursday welcomed the first students on a school trip since it was hit by a massive earthquake in January 2024.時事通信社 による

Two Chinese coast guard ships left Japanese territorial waters off the coast of the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture on Thursday afternoon after staying there since Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Transactions made through hacked online securities accounts exceeded 300 billion yen between January and April, Japan's Financial Services Agency said Thursday.時事通信社 による

Japan and the European Union held a session of their ministerial-level economic dialogue in Tokyo on Thursday, discussing cooperation to maintain free trade amid concerns over the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff measures.時事通信社 による

National Police Agency Commissioner-General Yoshinobu Kusunoki said Thursday that he will instruct the Kanagawa prefectural police department to thoroughly review its response to a case in which the body of a 20-year-old woman was found at her former boyfriend's home in the city of Kawasaki on April 30.…

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Thursday denied a magazine report accusing him of failing to report over 30 million yen in political donations.時事通信社 による

Yoshihiko Noda, head of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, on Thursday criticized as "unbelievable" a recent remark by a lawmaker of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on exhibits about the Himeyuri nursing corps who died in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II.時事通信社 による

JFE Steel Corp. will completely stop one of its three blast furnaces in operation in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, in fiscal 2027 to cut costs, its parent, JFE Holdings Inc., said Thursday.時事通信社 による

Bank of Japan policymakers shared the recognition of growing uncertainties stemming from U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs at their March 18-19 meeting, according to minutes of the meeting released Thursday.時事通信社 による

Major Japanese trading company Marubeni Corp. said Thursday that it will participate in a project by U.S. oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. to produce low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia.時事通信社 による

Japanese motor manufacturer Nidec Corp. said Thursday that it has decided to withdraw its tender offer for Makino Milling Machine Co.時事通信社 による

Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki said Thursday that his southwestern Japanese city will invite Russian, Belarusian and Israeli ambassadors to Japan to this year's peace ceremony on Aug. 9 to mark the anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing.時事通信社 による

Japanese electronics maker NEC Corp. and telecommunications carrier KDDI Corp. said Thursday that they will consider collaborating in the field of cybersecurity.時事通信社 による

Tokyo High Court on Thursday rejected an appeal filed by lawyers for Hakuhodo Inc. against a lower court ruling that ordered the advertising agency to pay a fine of 200 million yen for its involvement in a high-profile Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics bid-rigging case.時事通信社 による

Japan's Fair Trade Commission warned 15 luxury hotel operators in Tokyo on Thursday that their practice of exchanging information about room prices and other matters could amount to price-fixing conspiracy that violates the antimonopoly law.時事通信社 による

Nintendo Co. said Thursday that it posted a group net profit of 278.8 billion yen for the fiscal year that ended in March, down 43.2pctfrom the previous year, due in part to sluggish sales of its Nintendo Switch video game console.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Thursday mourned the death of Joseph Nye, a former U.S. assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs who was known as a Japan expert.時事通信社 による

Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. on Thursday said that its consolidated net profit for the current fiscal year ending in March 2026 is expected to drop 34.9pctfrom a year earlier to 3.1 trillion yen.時事通信社 による

Shoji Nishida of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has refused to withdraw his remarks over exhibits about "Himeyuri" nursing corps who died in the fierce Battle of Okinawa in the final phase of World War II.時事通信社 による

Two men were arrested after creating a commotion at an elementary school in Tokyo's Tachikawa on Thursday.時事通信社 による

Japanese police have sent papers to prosecutors suspecting that two players of the Yomiuri Giants professional baseball team illegally gambled at online casinos, investigative sources said Thursday.時事通信社 による

A group of researchers at Japan's University of Osaka has developed a new immune cell therapy that could be applied to patients of acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, a type of hematological cancer.時事通信社 による

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. is poised to take full control of listed subsidiary NTT Data Group Corp., it was learned Thursday.時事通信社 による

Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Joseph Nye, who was emeritus professor at Harvard University and a Japan expert, died on Tuesday at age 88, the university said Wednesday.時事通信社 による

The Legislative Bureau of Japan's House of Representatives has been in overdrive lately, as Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba leads a minority government, leading to more work on arrangements for the debate and amendment of bills submitted by his administration.時事通信社 による

North Korea launched ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan on Thursday, according to the South Korean military.時事通信社 による

The loss of a certain immune-regulating protein in the brain leads to a decrease in the levels of amyloid beta, which causes Alzheimer's disease, and improves cognitive function, a group of researchers including from Kyoto University has found.時事通信社 による

Japanese drugmaker Shionogi & Co. said Wednesday that it will acquire Torii Pharmaceutical Co., a unit of Japan Tobacco Inc., for about 160 billion yen.時事通信社 による

A group of conservative lawmakers of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party urged Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Wednesday to forgo an expert review of World War II.時事通信社 による

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said Wednesday that it will receive electric vehicles from Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. for sale under its own brand.時事通信社 による

Police detained a man who reportedly brandished a knife at Todaimae Station on Tokyo Metro Co.'s Namboku Line in the capital's Bunkyo Ward on Wednesday evening.時事通信社 による

NRW.Global Business GmbH, the trade and investment agency of the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia hopes to support Japanese startups that are seriously considering expanding in Europe, Carolina Kawakubo, head of its Japanese arm, has said in an interview.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba had received funds totaling over 30 million yen from a supporter and had not disclosed them in his political fund reports, the Shukan Bunshun weekly magazine reported in its online edition Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font will visit Japan for two days from Sunday, the Japanese government announced Wednesday.時事通信社 による

The average price of rice sold at around 1,000 supermarkets across Japan in the week through April 27 hit its highest level on record dating back to March 2022, for the 17th straight week, the agriculture ministry said Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and Princess Aiko will visit the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa for two days from June 4, the Imperial Household Agency said Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Germany's new government led by Chancellor Friedrich Merz is expected to deepen defense cooperation with Japan, according to a senior think tank official.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government has been taking steps to prepare for future pandemics since it downgraded COVID-19 to a lower-risk category of infectious diseases that includes influenza two years ago.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government is looking closely at the U.S.-China trade talks to be held in Switzerland this weekend, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Wednesday.時事通信社 による