4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (189+ words) Australian Ambassador to Japan Andrew Shearer expressed hope on Wednesday for expanded cooperation with Japan in the energy sector, with China’s increasing economic coercion in the Asia-Pacific region in mind. At a news conference at the Japan National Press Club…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (365+ words) Manga artist Tetsuya Chiba, best known for his “Ashita no Joe” series, and others have started a crowdfunding campaign to deliver temporary housing to people displaced by a massive earthquake that struck Kumamoto Prefecture in July. “We need your help,…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (120+ words) The Japan Times Japanese 15-year-olds rank top in core subjects among OECD countries for the first time Japan ranked first among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries in reading, mathematics and science in a global assessment of 15-year-olds,…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (279+ words) Takeshi Niinami, former chair of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, or Keizai Doyukai, has criticized Japan’s social trend of labeling people suspected of wrongdoing as guilty before the facts are known. In September last year, the 67-year-old resigned as…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (174+ words) The Japan Times Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi touted the formulation of Japan’s record spending requests as increasing the transparency and discipline of the country’s finances after an overhaul of the budget-making process. Takaichi’s…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (192+ words) The government is planning to do without a second supplementary budget for fiscal 2026, government and ruling party sources said Thursday. While the government and ruling parties are considering convening an extraordinary session of parliament in early October, a government source…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (311+ words) The Imperial Household Agency is considering holding a funeral rite for Emperor Emeritus Akihito on a considerably smaller scale than that of his father, Emperor Hirohito — posthumously called Emperor Showa — based on a request from the emperor emeritus, himself, sources…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (525+ words) Major quakes are commonplace. The most notable ones in the past two decades include the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake and the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake. The latest one, a magnitude 7.1 also in Kumamoto, struck on July 28, recording an…...

2+ week, 7+ hour ago   (197+ words) SENDAI – Business leaders from Japan and South Korea on Sunday launched a bilateral exchange committee to address falling birth rates and population decline, challenges common to both countries. The committee’s secretariat is based at Japan’s Conference for Choosing the Future,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (262+ words) The Defense Ministry on Friday announced that it had signed an agreement with Nippon Steel to acquire the company’s former Setouchi Works site in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, as part of a plan to develop it into a “multifunctional integrated defense…...