The Japanese education ministry is considering launching a model project in fiscal 2026 to dispatch cram school lecturers and ...

Osaka, Aug. 11 (Jiji Press)--Ticket sales for the ongoing World Exposition in the city of Osaka, western Japan, have exceeded ...

Ueno, Gunma Pref., Aug. 11 (Jiji Press)--Machiko Taniguchi, who lost her husband in the 1985 crash of a Japan Airlines jumbo ...

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi safely returned to Earth Sunday following a stay of about five months aboard the International Space Station. The Crew Dragon capsule carrying Onishi, 49, and other ...

Atkins, Krenwinkel, and Watson (the three who actually committed the murders) were all sentenced to death. Atkins died in ...

Jiji Press, established in 1945 following the dissolution of state-owned Domei News Agency, is a leading Japanese news agency that provides a wide range of news, data, and other information to ...

Japanese Economic Revitalization Minister Ryosei Akazawa said Thursday that US officials assured him Washington will revise ...

Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Jiji Press today have debuted a platform called Fastlook that will deliver AFP’s global news coverage to corporate and institutional clients in Japanese. “AFP is ...

The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet fell to 38.1% last month, while 61.3% of those polled disapproved of its performance, according to a survey conducted by Jiji ...

The temperature in the eastern Japan city of Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, soared to 41.8 degrees Celsius at 2:26 p.m. on ...