Tokyo, April 28 (Jiji Press)--With this year marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and ...

Tokyo/Hanoi, April 27 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Sunday started a four-day tour of Vietnam and ...

Tokyo, April 28 (Jiji Press)--Ellie Omiya, a Japanese cultural figure who was active across various fields, died of illness at the age of 49, her management agency said on Sunday on her official ...

Washington, April 24 (Jiji Press)--Many finance officials from the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies called for the ...

Tokyo, April 25 (Jiji Press)--The Tokyo metropolitan government will begin searching for the birth parents of a 67-year-old ...

China’s economic growth for 2024 has been reported at 5.0%. However, the economic reality is not so rosy, with the urban youth unemployment rate for those aged 16 to 24 reaching 15.7% in December, ...

CDP chief Yoshihiko Noda told a press conference that although refundable tax credits, which the CDP advocated in the ...

For this facility, the architect Kuma Kengo created a design based on Malaysia’s intricately patterned songket textiles. The pavilion exterior uses 5,000 bamboo plants from Japan, and the interior ...

The impressive timber exterior, which employs the traditional Japanese kigumi kōhō wood-joining technique, is shaped like spreading waves, expressing creativity and innovation and resembling a DNA ...

Hiroshima, April 25 (Jiji Press)--Denmark’s King Frederik X on Friday visited Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and laid flowers at the cenotaph for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing of the western ...

Around 90% of Japanese shoppers prefer to buy domestically grown rice, with most saying that they never purchase any other kind. The online Japanese gourmet and restaurant guide Gurunavi conducted a ...

Entry to the pavilion of Mediterranean island nation Malta is through a giant monitor wall depicting a “temporal gateway.” The imagery displayed creates the illusion of an ancient limestone wall.