Ninety percent of all uchiwa are produced in Marugame, a small city of about 100,000 residents on Shikoku island, off the southwestern coast of Japan’s major island of Honshu and part of Kagawa ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology seen as key to future developments by economic and political decision-makers in Japan. In April 2024, the Japan Business Federation published a report ...

Trucking is arguably the most important segment of the logistics industry in Japan, as trucks are used to carry over 90 percent of cargo volume transported domestically. Trucking offers ...

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In Japan, hardly a week has gone by since October without news reports urging people to secure their homes. This is due to the rise of yamibaito – shady part-time work that promises easy money ...

NAHA, Okinawa — The Japanese government will begin magnetic surveys for unexploded ordnance at Okinawa’s main commercial airport ... survey at Naha Airport is part of a wider search of ...

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TOKYO — A U.S. airman stationed in Japan was sentenced to five years in prison Friday after being convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a minor. Senior Airman Brennon Washington ...

Brad DeLong’s sweeping history in Slouching Towards Utopia chronicles a century of unprecedented economic progress driven by ...

The report said gross domestic product shot up by 3.1 percent in the third quarter, reflecting an upward revision from the 2.8 percent jump ... operations as part of efforts to rein in accounting ...

TOKYO, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Japan's core consumer price inflation probably ... The internal affairs ministry will release November CPI data on Dec. 20 at 8:30 a.m. (Dec. 19 at 2330 GMT).