Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency plans to introduce a new food-labeling system that will enable consumers to scan quick response, or QR, codes on processed food packages to access detailed product ...

The student body organizing the University of Tokyo's May Festival said on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday that all events of the school festival scheduled for the day have been canceled following a ...

Japanese police arrested three more 16-year-old boys in connection with a robbery-murder incident targeting an elderly woman in Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, it was learned Saturday. The number o ...

Tohoku Electric Power Co. said Saturday that it has halted the No. 2 reactor at its Onagawa nuclear power plant in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Miyagi for inspection, following the detection ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Saturday afternoon visited the city of Ozu in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, and met with people affected by a massive rain disaster that hit the ...

DESIGN EQUALITY with Innovation is the 7th international competition in the SDGs-focused programme run by the socio-cultural initiative BE OPEN and its partners. The competition is open to students ...

Japanese lawmaker Renho, who previously served as executive deputy leader of the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, has lost an election for the leadership of the party's Tokyo ...

An executive of U.S. startup Anthropic has vowed to cooperate with Japan on its responses related to Claude Mythos, the company's cutting-edge artificial intelligence model. At a meeting in Tokyo on ...

Japan's National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations, or Zen-Noh, has said that it will raise fertilizer prices for autumn use, distributed from June through October, by up to 14.5 pct ...

Yume, an Akita dog gifted to Russian President Vladimir Putin by Japan, has died, the presidential office said. The Kremlin in Moscow said in a written response on Friday that the female dog born in ...

The Japanese men's soccer team, nicknamed Samurai Blue, is heading into this year's World Cup with global recognition as a possible dark horse, after team manager Hajime Moriyasu announced what is ...