Fujio Uemura has to rest after driving fish all night to Tokyo, under new rules that trucking firms and experts say are crippling Japan's logistics sector and risk pushing up prices for consumers.
A man was arrested after throwing several suspected petrol bombs at the headquarters of Japan's ruling party Saturday and ramming his car into a fence outside the prime minister's office, police said.
Glinting in the sun by the world's biggest nuclear plant, the Sea of Japan is calm now. But as the huge facility gears up to restart, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa has a new tsunami wall, just in case.
Japan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Thursday sent a ritual offering to a shrine honouring the country's war dead that has long angered neighbouring countries, a spokesman for the site said.
A record number of women are running in Japan's general election this month, although they still account for less than a quarter of candidates, local media said Wednesday.
Last year’s People's Choice awards for the best ramen in Japan reveals visitors to the land of the Rising Sun look in all the wrong places for the country's top-rated ramen. Not only that, but according to travel experts, ramen-loving tourists don’t even visit during the right season for noodles.
Japan's 89-year-old former empress Michiko left hospital Sunday after having surgey for a broken thigh, local media reported.
Jaron Vesely (center) as Ko-Ko with the Gentlemen of Japan (L to R: Vinh Nguyen, Jon-David Randle, Nick Rodrigues, Michael Motroni). Photo by …
Director Jeffrey Polk and actress Michelle Ianiro think it does.

