Tokyo | Japanese troops have been deployed to mountain towns. Mechanical wolf robots snarl over empty rice paddies. And drones fitted with heat-sensing cameras tear across the country’s northern ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Japan has approved the restart of the world’s largest nuclear power plant more than a decade after its closure ...
Firefighters in Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, are battling a large-scale blaze that has destroyed more than 170 houses and buildings in the Saganoseki area of Oita City. Authorities say a man ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Firefighters in Oita, Japan, were battling an out ...
Visitors enjoy fall colors at Korankei in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on Monday. The Yomiuri Shimbun Visitors enjoy fall colors at Korankei in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on Monday. The Yomiuri Shimbun 15 ...
The governor of Niigata Prefecture will visit the site of the Fukushima disaster on Tuesday, a key trip before he decides on whether to approve the restart of a separate nuclear plant in his own ...
Artificial intelligence fueled a stronger-than-expected earnings season for Japan’s tech sector, with surging data-center demand prompting chipmakers and equipment suppliers to raise forecasts. With ...
Elderly residents in a city northeast of Tokyo are busy making straw rope decorations in preparation for the New Year. Ten people in their 70s gathered on Wednesday at a job center for the elderly in ...
Rice prices soar despite emergency stock release and supply reassurances New PM Takaichi faces challenge with inflation, farm minister favours rice coupon High rice prices boon for cheaper imports, in ...
KISARAZU, Japan (Reuters) -At a farmer's market not far from Tokyo, more than 100 shoppers queued for a chance to get a kilo or so of Japanese rice for 500 yen ($3.32) by carefully heaping as much of ...
The winner of a mayoral election in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, was decided by a lottery after two candidates gained exactly the same number of votes. The mayoral race of Kamisu City took ...
Japan issued an advisory for a possible tsunami of up to one metre (three feet) high after an earthquake in waters off Iwate. Japan issued a tsunami advisory on Sunday for Iwate prefecture after an ...