A private research firm says that prices of about 6,700 food and beverage products will rise in Japan in October as manufacturers are faced with rising material costs and a weaker yen.
Teikoku Databank surveyed 105 major domestic food and beverage producers at the end of September.
The family of a Japanese woman who was abducted by North Korean agents 45 years ago has appealed for her swift return.
Family members of Yokota Megumi attended a rally in Kawasaki City, south of Tokyo, on Saturday ahead of her 58th birthday on Wednesday. Megumi was taken to the North in 1977, when she was 13 years old.
The widow of Japan's former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has thanked Prime Minister Kishida Fumio for staging a state funeral for her late husband.
Abe Akie visited Kishida at the prime minister's office on Friday. They talked for about 10 minutes.
The man behind one of Japan's largest sushi chains is being accused of stealing trade secrets.
Tokyo police arrested the president of Kappa Sushi's operating company on Friday.
Opposition lawmakers in Japan are calling for Lower House Speaker Hosoda Hiroyuki to thoroughly explain whether he has ties to the controversial former Unification Church.
They say it is his duty to do so before an extraordinary session of the Diet opens next week.
Japan's longest-serving prime minister is being remembered for his life's work and his tragic death. Former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo was gunned down during an election campaign speech in July. Thousands gathered in Tokyo on Tuesday to mourn.
Members of the Imperial Family and lawmakers from across Japan joined the leaders of all three branches of government for the state funeral. About 700 foreign representatives also attended.
People in Japan are bidding a final farewell to the country's longest-serving prime minister at his state funeral. Abe Shinzo was shot and killed during a political rally in July.
More than 4,000 people have gathered at the Nippon Budokan arena in central Tokyo. Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, along with the heads of the Upper and Lower Houses, as well as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, are attending. Former Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide is due to deliver a eulogy on behalf of Abe's friends.
Tuesday marks one year since a South Korean district court allowed the liquidation of a Japanese firm's assets in a wartime labor case. It was the first such ruling, and efforts are still underway to prevent the case from further hurting relations between Japan and South Korea.
The district court in Daejeon decided last September that part of the assets, including patents and trademarks, that Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries holds in South Korea, could be liquidated.
Hundreds of drones and tens of thousands of fireworks illuminated the night sky on Sunday at the 2025 World Expo site in Osaka, western Japan.
About 15,000 people visited Yumeshima, a man-made island in Osaka's Konohana Ward, for the event designed to boost momentum for Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Government officials say they confirmed 5,621 new cases of the coronavirus on Sunday. That's down 2,456 from a week ago.
The seven-day average through Sunday is 5,972.4, or 71.3 percent of the figure for the preceding week.
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has called for more active international investment in his country's economy, pledging continued domestic growth.
The appeal was part of a speech at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday.
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has said Japan will further ease border controls aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus.
Kishida made the comment to reporters in New York where he attended the United Nations General Assembly.
More than 800 dancers and others, who took part in a popular mid-summer dance festival in western Japan, were found to have contracted the coronavirus.
The Awa Odori in Tokushima City is originally a Buddhist Bon dance, and one of Japan's most famous summer festivals. The marching dance festival was carried out on the city streets from August 12 through 15. It took place on its full scale for the first time in three years, with skilled dance groups performing and many tourists from outside Tokushima Prefecture joining the dance processions.
The Japanese government says it will continue to promote communication with South Korea as improving bilateral cooperation is now more important than ever.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno Hirokazu spoke to reporters on Thursday. Japan's Prime Minister Kishida Fumio met with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol in New York the previous day.