TOKYO — Japan will expand an unprecedented military aid program, the first of its kind since World War II, to help the armed ...

Major Japanese TV networks have suspended programs hosted ... said Nakai was to step down as host of a variety program following a thorough review of the situation. The scandal comes after now ...

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Japan plans to have a wider range of part-time workers join the kosei nenkin employee pension program by changing some rules, sources have said. Currently, companies with 51 or more employees must ...

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Demands that the Japanese communications ministry take Fuji Television Network Inc. off the air have emerged on social media ...

Japanese broadcasting powerhouse Nippon TV has elevated longtime exec Hiroyuki ... The actor, who serves as a United Nations Development Program advocate, has made environmental activism a ...

Tokyo, Jan. 21 (Jiji Press)--Japan plans to have a wider range of part-timers join the “kosei nenkin” employee pension program by changing some rules, sources have said. At present ...

Even legendary samurai and "rakugoka" comedic storytellers on Japanese ... that the TV industry has suffered a “megaton-class impact.” “Shoten,” a long-running entertainment program ...

The government-affiliated Japan International Cooperation Agency offered the annual program from 1998 to 2007 in Obihiro, whose officials were working on their own land readjustment at the time.

This is a radio program for learning Japanese through news about Japan. We pick up stories spoken in plain Japanese to explain the background along with some of the phrases used.