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Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–The four suspected masterminds behind a series of robberies in the Tokyo metropolitan area last year used other people’s X, formerly Twitter, accounts to recruit individuals for “dark” part-time jobs, investigative sources said Monday. By analyzing smartphones seized

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo Gas Co. does not see any increase in risks in continuing to procure liquefied natural gas from Russia despite stepped-up Western sanctions, President Shinichi Sasayama said. The company will keep working with the government to maintain its

Stockholm, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–Kyoto University professor Susumu Kitagawa, among the three co-winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has called for long-term financial support for basic research at a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government on Monday submitted to the Diet, the country’s parliament, its fiscal 2025 draft supplementary budget with 18,303.4 billion yen in general-account spending mainly to finance the first comprehensive economic package under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s current account surplus grew 15.5 pct in October from a year before to 2,833.5 billion yen thanks mainly to increased exports and higher dividend income, the Finance Ministry said Monday. The country posted a surplus in the

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s inflation-adjusted real wage index dropped 0.7 pct year on year in October, falling for the 10th straight month as increases in prices of goods such as food continued to outpace wage growth, labor ministry data showed Monday.

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s gross domestic product in July-September grew an annualized 2.3 pct from the previous quarter after price and seasonal adjustment, the Cabinet Office said in a revised report Monday. The decline was steeper than the 1.8 pct drop

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–Housing loans with repayment periods of up to 50 years, far longer than the standard 35-year term for long-term mortgages, are gaining popularity in Japan particularly among people in their 20s. With housing prices continuing to soar, as

Tokyo, Dec. 7 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Defense Ministry said Sunday that Chinese military aircraft intermittently locked its radar onto Air Self-Defense Force fighter jets twice over the high seas of the western Pacific southeast of the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa on Saturday

Tokyo, Dec. 7 (Jiji Press)–The focus of the upcoming parliamentary deliberations on a supplementary budget bill proposed by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration will be on the moves of three opposition parties–the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, the Democratic Party for the