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 ...

Close attention will likely be paid to whether participants at key multilateral meetings later this month can find common ...

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 ...