According to a study by the Japan Ready-Made Meal Association (JRMMA), the prepared side dishes market in Japan reached ¥11.7 trillion in 2025, growing by 3.7% from the previous year. With prices ...

Washington, May 19 (Jiji Press)--U.S. President Donald Trump has purchased shares in Kura Sushi USA Inc., a unit of Japanese conveyor belt sushi restaurant chain Kura Sushi Inc., for 1 million to 5 ...

The liquidator of the Unification Church, a controversial religious group ordered to disband, on Wednesday began accepting ...

A hall linked to Buddhist saint Kukai on Miyajima Island burned to the ground on Wednesday, local police and firefighters in the city of Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, said the same day. According ...

Japan's Environment Ministry has said it will start surveys in late June on bear habitats and populations in the Tohoku ...

A strong earthquake struck southwestern Japan on Wednesday, measuring upper 5, the fourth-highest level on the Japanese ...

Lost Land, which won the Special Orizzonti Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival, tells a story of Rohingya ...

A man with a fruit knife attacked three people around noon on Tuesday at a Japanese restaurant in Shanghai World Financial ...

Paris, May 19 (Jiji Press)--Finance ministers and top central bankers from the Group of Seven major industrialized nations expressed their concerns Tuesday over the impacts of the prolonged Middle ...

A survey on gender equality at Japan’s newspapers and news agencies found that 58.3% of women think that men get preferential ...

Tokyo, May 19 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Hitachi Ltd. said Tuesday that it has begun collaborating with U.S. startup Anthropic to develop systems for infrastructure, including electricity transmission and ...

Japan's Fisheries Agency said Monday that fishing quotas for snow crabs on the Sea of Japan side will be reduced for a ...