SAGA--Yoshiaki Tokunaga had often performed in front of audiences, but when the seaweed farmer faced down a staggering 1,700 people, he felt so nervous he thought he would faint. Tokunaga ...

Tokyo (Jiji Press) — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has pledged to protect the global free trade system during Diet discussions on the tariff measures of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Japan’s biggest financial firms are abolishing decades-old practices that kept women off the corporate ladder. Nippon Life Insurance Co., Japan’s largest insurer, and MUFG Bank Ltd., a unit of ...

Tokunaga started playing the piano at age 52 after being captivated by Japanese-Swedish pianist Fuzjko ... Before the farming season, the seaweed farmer on his own sets up more than 2,000 heavy ...

The Vehicle Detection and Counting System is a computer vision-based project developed using Python and OpenCV. This system aims to detect moving vehicles from a video feed (either live or recorded) ...

this means players content to play in Japanese can save over $100 compared to the system the rest of the world has to buy, which is selling for $449.99 in the U.S. In some experts' opinions ...

But they were to prove transformative once they were read by a fellow botanist in Japan. Laver is essentially the same type of seaweed as one known as nori in Japan. For those lunchtime sushi ...

Under its minimum market access system, Japan imports about 770,000 tons of rice per year tariff-free, including up to 100,000 tons for consumption as staple food. The country imposes a tariff of ...

Japan’s credit system can be confusing, and many foreign residents struggle to get their first credit card. This guide breaks down how Japan’s credit system works, introduces the two main credit ...

Election watchdogs called for a return to manual counting of votes in succeeding elections in the country, noting that the shift to automated election system has been prone to fraud. Former Australian ...