In April, Nippon Paint and U.S. paint maker Sherwin-Williams Co. jointly bid to buy all Akzo shares. After Akzo rejected the proposal, Nippon Paint made an independent offer in July to acquire the ...

Tokyo, Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)--An extraordinary session of the Diet, Japan's parliament, convened on Monday, setting the stage ...

Okinawa police arrested Devin Jacob Ballard, who is stationed at the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air base in the Okinawa city ...

Anamizu, Ishikawa Pref., Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Kazuo Yana stressed his resolve to promote restoration in disaster-hit Ishikawa and Kumamoto ...

Seven people have filed their candidacies in the mayoral election of Yokohama, near Tokyo, including scandal-hit former Mayor ...

Naha, Okinawa Pref., Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)--About 100 people gathered near the Okinawa prefectural government building Sunday, ...

Bangkok, Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)--Thai police have taken two Japanese men in their 20s into protective custody in the western ...

Tokyo, Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)--The mother of Megumi Yokota, a Japanese woman abducted to North Korea at age 13 in 1977, ...

Kaminoseki, Yamaguchi Pref., Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)--Kaminoseki Mayor Tetsuo Nishi, who is in favor of the town in Yamaguchi ...

Osaka, Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)--A former Japanese female prosecutor who was allegedly sexually assaulted by her male boss in 2018 said Monday that she has launched a group to seek recognition of ...

Tokyo, Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)--Japanese agriculture minister Kazuo Yana on Monday retracted and apologized for his recent controversial remarks on road development budgets for municipalities in his ...

Fukushima, Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)--The town of Futaba in Fukushima Prefecture will see the evacuation order lifted in December ...