A batch of eight matsutake mushrooms grown in this west Japan city fetched 850,000 yen (approx. $5,574) during the first ...

Japan's Imperial Household Agency on Thursday released the official biography of the wife of Emperor Hirohito, posthumously ...

Japan's toy market is getting bigger, even though fewer children are being born. Old toys and characters from the Heisei era ...

Japanese scientist Susumu Kitagawa and two others won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing porous ...

A new documentary about baseball connections between the United States and Japan delves into the sport's role acros ...

Japan's weather agency issued a special heavy rain warning for the Izu island chain south of Tokyo on Thursday, cautioning ...

Rice grown in dry fields in the first year of trial cultivation has been harvested here recently to the joy of the people ...

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SoftBank Group Corp. said Wednesday it will acquire the robotics business of Swiss industrial automation company ABB Ltd. for ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. is considering decommissioning some older reactors at its nuclear power plant in ...

Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it will jointly develop cathode materials for an all-solid-state battery with Sumitomo ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party, led by new leader Sanae Takaichi, and the government are considering convening an ...