TOKYO -- The Japanese government is promoting the spread of "smart cash registers" -- cloud-based checkout systems that ...

Many Bank of Japan policymakers called for the central bank to consider raising the key interest rate, the minutes of their ...

More Japanese companies are beginning to treat differences in brain and neurological function as part of human diversity, ...

A new survey in Iwate Prefecture shows that about 85% of nurses think about quitting their jobs. Many say they are too tired, ...

An atomic bomb-damaged former hospital outpatient building here, which served as a relief base immediately after the attack ...

Some 36% of respondents to a recent Mainichi Shimbun survey supported revising the Constitution to allow extensions of ...

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A sweater knitted by a woman who was paralyzed due to the atomic bombing of this southwest Japan city has been found, serving ...

The Nikkei stock index rose briefly over 4 percent early Thursday, hitting a record intraday high, tracking overnight Wall ...

The risk of person-to-person transmission of hantaviruses in Japan would remain low even if infected passengers from a cruise ...

A bus crashed into a guardrail on an expressway in the northeastern prefecture of Fukushima on Wednesday, killing a teenager ...