In the tax system revisions made in late 2024, the Democratic Party for the People held the casting vote and advocated the increase of the “¥1.03 million wall”—the threshold at which wage ...

Washington, Feb. 7 (Jiji Press)--Japan and the United States are coordinating to release a joint statement vowing to create a golden age of bilateral relations, as their current leaders hold their ...

Tokyo, Feb. 4 (Jiji Press)--Honda Motor Co. has proposed a plan to buy shares in Nissan Motor Co. to make it a subsidiary, people familiar with the matter said Tuesday. Honda apparently aims to ...

Tokyo, Jan. 30 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo High Court on Thursday ruled that the government's decision to deny a passport to freelance journalist Junpei Yasuda is illegal. Presiding Judge Hiro Misumi upheld a ...

Tokyo, Feb. 7 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. said Friday that it will acquire Banner Life Insurance Co. for about 352.2 billion yen while investing about 130 billion yen for ...

The average price of a condominium in central Tokyo fell slightly in 2024 but remained above the ¥100 million mark. The number of units sold also declined. The average price of a condominium in ...

Tokyo, Feb. 6 (Jiji Press)--The number of criminal offenses recognized by police in Japan in 2024 rose 4.9 pct from the previous year to 737,679, up for the third straight year, the National ...

Tokyo, Feb. 6(Jiji Press)--The Japanese government decided Thursday not to appeal a court ruling against the Finance Ministry's decision not to disclose documents related to a controversial state ...

Serious Reforms or a Simple Façade? On March 7, 2023, the BBC aired a documentary titled Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop, the first TV program to publicly expose Johnny Kitagawa’s sexual ...

Nagoya, Feb. 5 (Jiji Press)--Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday that it will set up a subsidiary in Shanghai to develop and produce electric vehicles and batteries in a carbon neutrality ...

Tokyo, Feb. 6 (Jiji Press)--Heavy snow continued to fall in some parts of Japan on Thursday due to the strongest cold air mass of the season, especially in the Tohoku northeastern region and the ...

New York, Feb. 3 (Jiji Press)--Nippon Steel Corp. and United States Steel Corp. on Monday jointly filed an opening brief in their administrative lawsuit against former U.S. President Joe Biden's ...