近年来，日本冰淇淋在海外的需求量节节攀升。财务省的贸易统计显示，2023年出口额同比增长23.5%至79.66亿日元，创历史新高。出口量同比增长19.8%至10138吨。出口保持单边上升势头，可见人气之高。

日本在巴黎奥运会中获得了20枚金牌，连同银牌和铜牌共计45枚奖牌。这也是日本在海外奥运会获得奖牌数最多的一次。值得一提的是，这些奖牌项目中，许多聘请了外籍教练，建立起新的训练体系。而传统强项在现有体系下也取得了不错的成绩，但面临着竞技体育人口减少的问 ...

帝国数据库公司实施的全国公司总裁年龄分析调查显示，退位让贤的平均年龄为68.7岁，逼近70岁的高位水平。团块世代（1947年到1949年间出生的一代人——译注）年满75岁的“2025年问题”近在咫尺，交接班问题似乎更加让人头疼。

Kirino Natsuo’s novel Tsubame wa modotte konai (The Swallows Don’t Return) deals with surrogate pregnancy, where people who cannot have children themselves instead rely on another woman to ...

When the Shinkansen started running 60 years ago, it took four hours to travel from Tokyo to Osaka. Now, it takes less than two and a half hours. When the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, hailed as a ...

New York, Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)--The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women held a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on Thursday to review Japan's policies on women.

Istanbul, Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)--A bus carrying 20 Japanese tourists and a guide overturned on a major road in Afyonkarahisar, western Turkey, on Thursday. Passengers underwent medical examinations ...

Tokyo, Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Banks' Payment Clearing Network, or Zengin-Net, said Thursday that it will postpone the planned revamp of its Zengin interbank financial settlement network ...

Tokyo, Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)--Police in Tokyo and the nearby prefectures of Saitama, Kanagawa and Chiba will upgrade their joint investigation headquarters for a series of robbery cases in the ...

Sapporo/Tokyo, Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)--Japan confirmed this season's first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza at a poultry farm Thursday, the earliest-ever outbreak at a farm in a bird flu ...

Tokyo, Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba made a ritual "masakaki" tree offering at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Thursday, the start of its three-day autumn festival.

Tokyo, Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)--Japan's labor shortage will reach 17.75 million hours per day in 2035, equivalent to 3.84 million workers, an estimate by Persol Research and Consulting Co. and Chuo ...