A growing number of Japanese people appear to be breaking with the country's tradition of sending New Year's greeting cards, as rising prices of daily goods are forcing them to cut back on spending.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family greeted throngs of New Year’s well-wishers from ... The emperor's 2021 and 2022 greetings, which attract huge crowds to the palace ...

increased by about 1.1 million tons from a year earlier. Japan set a goal to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 46 percent from its 2013 level by fiscal 2030. The figure for fiscal 2021 ...