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Nara, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)–Tetsuya Yamagami on Tuesday pleaded guilty to murdering former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the western Japan city of Nara about three years ago. During the first hearing of his trial at Nara District Court, the 45-year-old

Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told U.S. President Donald Trump during their meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday that she intends to nominate him for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, a senior U.S. government official said. Trump has long

(A typo in the fourth paragraph has been corrected.) (Update) Takaichi Calls for Japan-U.S. Alliance’s “New Golden Age” Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, in her first face-to-face meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, called for creating

Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)–Nearly 20 pct of workers in Japan’s restaurant industry have experienced “customer harassment,” such as unreasonable demands and behavior by customers, a government white paper showed Tuesday. The proportion of such workers came to 18.8 pct, according to

Aomori, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)–Three male workers may have suffered internal radiation exposure while working in a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. has said. The men in their 20s to 40s are

Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, in her first face-to-face meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, called for creating a “new golden age” of the Japan-U.S. alliance together. Speaking to Trump in their summit in Tokyo, Takaichi,

Hanoi, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Vietnamese counterpart, Pham Minh Chinh, agreed that the two countries will promote exchanges at various levels to deepen their comprehensive strategic partnership during a meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. Chinh

Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)–U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will have a meeting in Japan on Tuesday morning with the families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago, the U.S. Department of State said the same day. It is

Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)–The Tokyo Stock Exchange has designated Japanese electronic device maker Nidec Corp. as a “security on special alert,” effective Tuesday. The move, announced on Monday, came after suspected accounting irregularities surfaced at Nidec subsidiaries in Italy and China.

Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)–New Japanese Environment Minister Hirotaka Ishihara said he has instructed his ministry to step up measures to address the growing harm to people caused by bears. “We must do our utmost, including (bear) population management and human resource