Online applications for an all-day advance reservation system introduced on a trial basis this fiscal year at the Hiroshima ...

Neighborhood cake shops across Japan are facing a crisis as rising costs for ingredients and other goods are apparently ...

Sapporo Breweries Ltd. on Monday said it was entering a strategic partnership with the major Danish brewer Carlsberg A/S to ...

People can improve their accuracy in distinguishing AI-generated faces from real ones through training, a research team ...

Regional banks are opening new branches across areas of Kumamoto Prefecture in southwest Japan where the population is ...

Kewpie said it does not see this as only taking an easy way. It sees it as a positive change that helps people keep enjoying ...

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Japan's real wages in May rose 1.4 percent from a year earlier, increasing for the fifth straight month and marking the ...

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The United States said Monday that China's test-firing of a nuclear-capable ballistic missile from a submarine was of ...

A large and "violent" typhoon is moving westward near the Mariana Islands in the Pacific and may approach areas south of ...

MUFG Bank, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., and JCB Co. on Monday agreed to collaborate on business ...