Number of foreign residents in Japan hits new high at 3.4% of population
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The number of foreign residents in Japan hit a record 4.28 million at the end of June, accounting for 3.4 percent of the total popula
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The number of foreign residents in Japan hit a record 4.28 million at the end of June, accounting for 3.4 percent of the total popula
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TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi 's comments about the additional work she has to take on as a woman compared to her male predecess
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The number of foreigners holding business manager visas who left Japan without applying for reentry permits nearly quadrupled in the
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's weather agency said Thursday that the year's 30th typhoon has formed, making 2026 the first year since 2013 to see 30 or more
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The operator of the Burger King hamburger chain in Japan on Thursday became the latest company to report a data breach, with 11.18 mi
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Russian intelligence authorities have detained a male reporter from Japan's Hokkaido Shimbun Press stationed in Sakhalin Oblast in the Far East, trans
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Stories about the Vancouver Asahi, a Japanese-Canadian baseball team that became popular in Canada before being disbanded during Worl
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SATSUMASENDAI, Kagoshima -- This southwest Japan city has unveiled a basic development plan to promote an industrial cluster centered on one of Japan'
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday appointed Arata Takebe as her new farm minister, seeking to minimize disruption to
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TOBA, Mie -- Poor oyster growth in this central Japan city has left farmers without market-ready oysters at the start of the harvesting season, forcin
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's health ministry is warning people heading to the mountains this fall to beware of poisonous mushrooms that closely resemble e
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Mizuho Financial Group Inc., one of Japan's three megabanks, said Thursday it will fully launch a three-month program next month to t
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The No. 2 reactor at the Onagawa nuclear plant in northeastern Japan will be halted around Saturday due to a small amount of water le
