Tokyo, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)--Executives of Komeito, the junior party in Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's ruling coalition, Thursday agreed to name land minister Tetsuo Saito as its new leader.

Tokyo, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)--Mizuho Bank said Thursday that it will raise its long-term prime lending rate by 0.1 percentage ...

At the meeting, LDP Diet affairs chief Tetsushi Sakamoto and his CDP counterpart, Hirofumi Ryu, also agreed to continue to allocate the top post of the Lower House's Rules and Administration Committee ...

Tokyo, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Thursday that it has completed the trial removal of nuclear fuel debris from a crippled reactor at its Fukushima No. 1 ...

The official announcement of the first snow settling on Mount Fuji came on November 7 this year, which is the latest ever ...

The appearance of snow at the peak of the mountain was 36 days later than average and 33 days later than last year, according to the meteorological office in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture. The previous ...

Kobe, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)--A 45-year-old inmate serving an indefinite prison sentence for the 2004 murder of a girl in Okayama Prefecture, western Japan, was arrested Thursday in a case in which ...

日本财团为了解年轻人想法而长期持续实施《18岁意识调查》，近日针对“扭蛋式分配”问题进行的调查显示，包括知道“扭蛋式分配”这个词（39.8%）和不知道这个词（31.8%）的人在内，合计共有超过七成的受访者担心这种分配方式。从性别来看，女性受访者比例（ ...

2024年5月，经济产业省下属审议会启动了围绕制定《第七次能源基本计划》的审议工作。预定于2025年11月在巴西召开的第30届《联合国气候变化框架公约》缔约方大会（COP30）上，世界各国将带去2035年的温室效应气体（GHG）减排目标。第七次能源计划将2040年定为目标年份，这也是日本将在COP30上提出的数值目标。

针对入境游相关课题，选择最多的是多语言服务支持和缓解拥挤对策等“接待能力建设”，占比为68.9%。其次是“人手不足”（65.5%）、“吸引游客的宣传推介”（58.2%）。11.9%选择了“超限旅游（观光公害）”，这个问题主要指在世界文化遗产富士山和古 ...

Tokyo, Nov. 5 (Jiji Press)--The government is unlikely to submit legislation for active cyberdefense to the Diet, Japan's parliament, within this year, government sources said Tuesday. Prime ...

国民民主党の玉木雄一郎代表は5日の記者会見で、先の衆院選の一部小選挙区で競合した立憲民主党に苦言を呈 ...