Heavy rain mainly hit the city of Nago and the villages of Kunigami, Higashi and Ogimi. In Higashi, 48-hour rainfall until 11 a.m. Sunday totaled 637.5 millimeters, a record high for the area.

At the same time, however, Onodera noted that annual income tax revenue would drop by 7 trillion and 8 trillion yen if the income threshold separating income tax payers and nonpayers is raised to 1.78 ...

Tokyo, Nov. 10 (Jiji Press)--Akira Kawasaki, a senior official of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ...

The APEC and G-20 summits come at a time when the international order is at risk of being further shaken as former U.S.

Tokyo, Nov. 9 (Jiji Press)--The Chiba Lotte Marines, a Japanese professional baseball team, said Saturday that it has ...

Tokyo, Nov. 9 (Jiji Press)--The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a heavy rain emergency warning for the island town of ...

Los Angeles, Nov. 8 (Jiji Press)--Late Japanese music legend Ryuichi Sakamoto's final solo piano concert work "Opus" is on ...

Kunisaki, Oita Pref., Nov. 9 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako visited a facility to grow young fish ...

Tokyo, Nov. 9 (Jiji Press)--The condition of hospitalized Japanese Princess Yuriko, 101, has deteriorated, officials of the ...

Osaka, Nov. 8 (Jiji Press)--The operator of Tsutenkaku Tower, a major tourist attraction in the western Japan city of Osaka, ...

At a meeting among parliamentary groups in the Lower House, they also agreed to name Koichiro Genba of the main opposition ...

Tokyo, Nov. 8 (Jiji Press)--Kioxia Holdings Corp. aims to go public between December and June, people familiar with the ...