Fukushima Prefectural Police will launch a program in fiscal 2026 to play specific recorded messages inside supermarkets and ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi aims to suspend the country's consumption tax on food to alleviate the pain of persistent ...

At its headquarters in the town of Seika, Juko has converted a storage space into a compact gym fitted with a training ...

The city of Kurayoshi lies in central Tottori Prefecture, on the west coast of Japan. From Tokyo, the journey there takes ...

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant continues to demolish tanks emptied by the release of treated ...

A Kyoto University professor and the artificial intelligence (AI) startup Teraverse have developed a "Buddharoid" humanoid ...

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A national agricultural research institute and the University of Tsukuba have developed a muskmelon that can be ripened on ...

The city of Kyoto plans to start a new bus fare system with lower prices for local people and higher prices for tourists.

A manga platform run by the major Japanese publisher Shogakukan Inc. allowed an author to produce works under a different ...

Japanese supermarket chain Daiei Inc. said Friday it will change its brand name of all its stores in the greater Tokyo area ...

A group of Kyoto University students defied university rules this week to display their signs and works of visual art just ...