In December 2025, Matsuya conducted an online survey among its email newsletter subscribers regarding Valentine's Day. The ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Thursday it suspended work to withdraw control rods at the just-launched unit ...

The leader of Japanese opposition party Reiwa Shinsengumi, Taro Yamamoto, 51, announced on the party's YouTube channel on Jan ...

Japan's trade deficit in 2025 shrank 52.9 percent from a year earlier to 2.65 trillion yen ($16.7 billion), with total ...

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The Bank of Japan is likely to keep its benchmark interest rate steady at a two-day policy meeting from Thursday, opting to ...

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The Japanese education ministry has asked schools across the country to make sure they are not missing any cases of bullying ...

The astronauts evacuated last week from the International Space Station say a portable ultrasound machine came in ...

The U.S. stock market bounced back from its worst day since October on Wednesday after President Donald Trump said he reached ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced at a Jan. 19 press conference that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party would ...

Japan's Ayumu Hirano, the reigning Olympic gold medalist in the men's snowboard halfpipe, suffered multiple fractures and ...