Athletes, and cake shop and bakery workers ranked high as dream jobs for children in Japan, a private-sector survey has found.โดย 時事通信社

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner, Komeito, on Wednesday remained apart on key issues in their working-level talks on revising the political funds control law in the wake of a high-profile slush funds scandal.โดย 時事通信社

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said Wednesday that the central bank is closely monitoring the yen's current weakness.โดย 時事通信社

Japanese Environment Minister Shintaro Ito on Wednesday apologized for ministry staff switching off the microphone for two speakers from groups of Minamata disease sufferers abruptly at a meeting earlier this month.โดย 時事通信社

Five of Japan's seven major trading houses logged falls in group net profits for fiscal 2023, according to their latest earnings reports.โดย 時事通信社

An extension of a Shinkansen bullet train line to Sapporo, the capital of the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido, is unlikely to take place at the end of fiscal 2030 as planned, its developer said Wednesday.โดย 時事通信社

Japan's four major nonlife insurance companies will raise fire insurance premiums by an average of some 10pctnationwide in October, it was learned Wednesday.โดย 時事通信社

Japan opposes an all-out ground operation by the Israeli military in Rafah, the southernmost district of Gaza Strip, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Wednesday.โดย 時事通信社

Four Chinese coast guard ships sailed in Japanese waters off the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, Wednesday.โดย 時事通信社

Japanese opposition parties Wednesday asked that a review be held at a parliamentary political ethics panel for 44 lawmakers involved in a political funds scandal that has rocked the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.โดย 時事通信社

Toyota Motor Corp. on Wednesday said its group net profit in the fiscal year that ended in March nearly doubled from the previous year to hit a record high of 4,944.9 billion yen.โดย 時事通信社

Japan is forecast to have 5,866,000 elderly dementia patients in 2050, up over 1.4 million from 2022, an estimate showed said Wednesday.โดย 時事通信社

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said Wednesday that the central bank may need to take monetary policy action depending on exchange rate fluctuations.โดย 時事通信社

Toyota Motor Corp. will expand its re-employment program to cover workers at 65 and older and all jobs, starting in August, it was learned Wednesday.โดย 時事通信社

Japanese House of Representatives Speaker Fukushiro Nukaga said he hopes that interparty discussions on proposals to secure a sufficient number of Imperial Family members will be launched as early as next week, according to senior officials of ruling and opposition parties.โดย 時事通信社

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner, Komeito, agreed Tuesday to improve transparency over the use of policy activity funds provided by political parties to member lawmakers.โดย 時事通信社

Osaka District Court has upheld a petition from an Osaka Prefecture resident in his 70s seeking the deletion from a website of information about the area where he lives, which has historically suffered discrimination.โดย 時事通信社

Tokyo DisneySea's new Fantasy Springs area was unveiled to the media on Tuesday ahead of its June 6 opening.โดย 時事通信社

Restaurant chain operator Royal Holdings Co., conveyor-belt sushi chain Choushimaru Co. and general trader Sojitz Corp. said Tuesday that they have founded a joint company in California to operate sushi restaurants in the United States.โดย 時事通信社

The Japanese government has no plans to send any representative to a ceremony in Moscow on Tuesday to swear in Vladimir Putin for a new six-year term as Russian president, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said.โดย 時事通信社

Nintendo Co. said Tuesday that its group net profit in fiscal 2023 grew 13.4pctfrom the previous year to a record 490.6 billion yen, thanks to the yen's weakening.โดย 時事通信社

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Tuesday that it has completed the first round of its discharges of tritium-containing treated water from its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant into the sea this fiscal year.โดย 時事通信社

Intel Corp., Japanese electrical equipment maker Omron Corp. and 13 other companies said Tuesday that they have formed a new organization for research and development on the latter-half process of semiconductor manufacturing.โดย 時事通信社

Students at the University of Cambridge have participated in a workshop to learn about Japanese culture through "rakugo" and "kodan" traditional Japanese storytelling, trying their unique ways of narrating.โดย 時事通信社

As preparations for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka pick up pace with just under one year to go before its opening, some private-sector businesses taking part in the event are planning to offer visitors a taste of evolving entertainment featuring virtual space and cutting-edge technologies.โดย 時事通信社

While Wednesday marks one year since Japan downgraded COVID-19 to a lower-risk infectious disease category that includes seasonal influenza, the country has faced unseasonal and larger-than-usual outbreaks of other infectious diseases over the past year.โดย 時事通信社

Japanese police on Tuesday arrested a 36-year-old acquaintance of a Tokyo couple whose bodies were found charred near a river in eastern Japan, making him the sixth person to be arrested over the case.โดย 時事通信社

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa is underpinning Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's administration, which has been struggling amid a ruling party fund scandal, on the diplomatic front.โดย 時事通信社

Daihatsu Motor Co. on Tuesday resumed production at its plant in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, after suspending operations from late December last year due to its safety test fraud scandal.โดย 時事通信社

Japanese police arrested Monday a fifth person over the burned bodies of a Tokyo couple found in the eastern Japan prefecture of Tochigi in mid-April.โดย 時事通信社

The European Commission announced Monday that it has approved the acquisition of United States Steel Corp. by Nippon Steel Corp. of Japan.โดย 時事通信社

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday urged his Liberal Democratic Party to speed up talks with Komeito to draw up the ruling bloc's proposal on a revision of the political funds control law.โดย 時事通信社

After projection mapping using a main building of the Tokyo metropolitan government as a screen started in late February, about 130,000 people visited the site to see the images shown on the external walls of the structure in the first two months.โดย 時事通信社

Many large and regional banks in Japan raised their interest rates on ordinary deposits in March or April for the first time in about 17 years, following the Bank of Japan's lifting of its negative interest rate policy.โดย 時事通信社

Bar associations in Japan are stepping up efforts to help people feel close to lawyers, such as making cute mascots as well as logos.โดย 時事通信社

"Kodomo shokudo" cafeterias that offer meals to needy children for free or at low prices continue operations in areas stricken by the Jan. 1 powerful earthquake in the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan.โดย 時事通信社

Japanese opposition parties are increasingly urging Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to dissolve the House of Representatives early for a general election following his ruling Liberal Democratic Party's loss in all three Lower House by-elections held in late April.โดย 時事通信社

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa has stressed Sunday that Tokyo will continue to support sustainable development of Nepal.โดย 時事通信社

Nearly 50pctof investments made through the new Nippon Individual Savings Account, or NISA, program went to Japanese stocks from January through March, a survey has shown.โดย 時事通信社

Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki on Sunday announced a bid to host the 60th annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank in Japan in 2027.โดย 時事通信社

Final arrangements are underway to hold a summit among Japan, China and South Korea in Seoul on May 26 and 27, a South Korean Foreign Ministry official said Sunday.โดย 時事通信社

Playwright Juro Kara, a leading figure in Japan's underground theater movement, died of acute subdural hematoma at a Tokyo hospital Saturday night. He was 84.โดย 時事通信社

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Saturday that he will talk with other members of the Liberal Democratic Party's political reform headquarters as early as Monday, when he returns from his overseas trip.โดย 時事通信社

Visiting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida interacted with Japanese Brazilians in a welcoming ceremony in Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest city, on Saturday.โดย 時事通信社

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced his policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean on Saturday, stressing the importance of economic ties based on trust, not on coercion, with China in mind.โดย 時事通信社

With Japan in the midst of the Golden Week holiday period, volunteer activities are in full swing in areas hit by the Jan. 1 Noto Peninsula earthquake in Ishikawa Prefecture.โดย 時事通信社

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and her French counterpart, Stephane Sejourne, have agreed to strengthen their countries' cooperation in the security area.โดย 時事通信社

The estimated population of children under 15 in Japan as of April 1 stood at 14.01 million, marking a decline for the 43rd straight year, the internal affairs ministry said Saturday.โดย 時事通信社

Japan fell by two places from last year to 70th in the 2024 world freedom of press rankings, according to international journalist organization Reporters Without Borders, or RSF.โดย 時事通信社

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on Friday ended a two-day ministerial council meeting chaired by Japan, revising its guidelines on artificial intelligence drawn up in 2019.โดย 時事通信社