Japan once led the world with its manufacturing prowess but has entered the 21st century a digital transformation laggard, ...

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The Japanese government has announced plans to increase production of rice and significantly boost exports. This marks a ...

TOKYO -- Japan Post Bank Co. announced April 7 that some of its online services, including "Yucho Direct," had been ...

A statue of the dog character Gyoza-ken Jubee, dressed in a gyoza dumpling costume, was unveiled at JR Utsunomiya Station in ...

A malfunction with the electronic toll collection (ETC) system on routes including the Tomei and Chuo expressways has ...

Is saying "smile please" to store staff considered harassing the workers, known in Japan as "customer harassment"? More than ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba pledged Monday to visit the United States soon to discuss Japan's position on tariffs imposed ...

An outage of automatic collection lanes at around 100 expressway toll gates continued in Japan on Monday, causing disruption ...

The Fukuoka Regional Taxation Bureau hosted a sake brewery tour for about 20 foreign residents to learn about Japan's ...

When she heard her front door open almost two years ago, Kostiantyn Zinovkin's mother thought her son had returned home ...

The arrest of an opposition presidential candidate last month has triggered Turkey's largest anti-government protests in more ...