Kunio Shirayama, 82, and his wife Fusako, 83, recently placed mochi into wooden boxes arrayed on the floor of their workshop in Shika. Colored red, yellow and green, the mochi was cut to produce rice ...

The Tokyo metropolitan government issued a new influenza advisory on Thursday. The metropolitan government had issued its first such advisory for this season in October, followed by a warning in ...

President Donald Trump seemed to signal a willingness to ease tensions in Minneapolis after a second deadly shooting by ...

Suzuki Motor overtook Nissan as Japan’s third-biggest automaker in 2025, sales data released by the two companies showed on Thursday, the first time in at least over a decade that Suzuki has outsold ...

A vehicle caught on fire at a gas station in Ota, Gunma Prefecture, on Tuesday, police say. The passengers who had been in the vehicle apparently left the scene after the blaze began. Police said they ...

Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Akio Toyoda was filled with passion when he spoke at the Japan Mobility Show on press day, Oct. 29, in Tokyo. The speech conveyed the message that the automaker intends ...

Let’s make cars Japan’s culture.” This was the slogan declared by Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Akio Toyoda upon assuming the chairman post of the Automobile Business & Culture Association of Japan, an ...

As an executive, Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Akio Toyoda values connections with people and places. He understands deeply that he and those around him owe what they are to those who came before. He ...

For the first time in six years, Akio Toyoda, 69-year-old chairman of Toyota Motor Corp., successfully competed in the Nurburgring 24 Hours (Nur 24H), an international automobile race held June 19-22 ...

On Sept. 10, Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor Corp., took the stage at the company’s U.S. National Dealer Meeting in Las Vegas. About 5,000 dealership representatives greeted him with a standing ...

The high approval ratings for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Cabinet appear to be giving the Liberal Democratic Party momentum as it chases a single-party majority in the House of Representatives ...

The University of Tokyo apologized Wednesday for a series of corruption cases involving faculty at its medical school and affiliated hospital. “We have significantly undermined society’s trust in us, ...