Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain, ...

The resignation comes as the public struggles with record high prices of the country’s traditional staple food.

Grass puffers were observed laying eggs in a sea cove in the Tainamachi district of Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture. From April ...

Japan has been looking to replace its older T-4 jet trainer, as Tokyo requires more modern aircraft to prepare pilots for the advanced F-35s and the ...

Of the seven semiconductor fabs completed in Japan during fiscal 2023–2024 (April 2023 to March 2025), only three had begun ...

The Japanese Air Self-Defense Force agency continued its search Thursday for two crew members and their plane which crashed ...

Officials say Japan’s air force has begun emergency safety inspections on all of its nearly 200 military training aircraft ...

TOKYO — A Japanese air force plane crashed Wednesday soon after taking off for a training flight in central Japan, the top ...

The T-4 training aircraft involved had reportedly only been airborne for two minutes after it departed Komaki Air Base for Nyutabaru Air Base in Japan's Miyazaki Prefecture when it disappeared ...