The Finance Ministry said Tuesday it will issue commemorative ¥1,000 coins marking the 100th anniversary of the 1926 start of the Showa Era. The coins will be priced at ¥34,800 apiece. The obverse ...

During routine excavations ahead of factory construction in Maebashi, a city in Japan's Gunma Prefecture roughly 100 kilometres northwest of Tokyo, archaeologists stumbled upon one of the most ...