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Tokyo, Dec. 17 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Ministry of Finance disclosed Wednesday a fifth set of documents related to a dubious land sale to Moritomo Gakuen to the widow of a MOF regional official who committed suicide after being ordered to tamper with official

Tokyo, Dec. 17 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government will hold the first summit meeting with five Central Asian countries in Tokyo for two days from Friday, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara announced Wednesday. Through the meeting with her counterparts from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan,

Tokyo, Dec. 17 (Jiji Press)–The Diet, Japan’s parliament, concluded its 58-day extraordinary session Wednesday after passing a fiscal 2025 supplementary budget and legislation to abolish the provisional gasoline tax surcharge. The ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation

Tokyo, Dec. 17 (Jiji Press)–The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, aborted the launch of an H3 rocket on Wednesday after detecting a ground equipment anomaly. According to JAXA, the launch was halted just before the rocket’s scheduled liftoff at 11:11 a.m.

Osaka, Dec. 17 (Jiji Press)–Victims of an arson attack on a psychosomatic clinic in Osaka were remembered on Wednesday, the fourth anniversary of the 2021 incident that killed 26 people including clinic head Kotaro Nishizawa, then 49. In front of the building

Tokyo, Dec. 17 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s seasonally adjusted core machinery orders in October rose 7.0 pct from the previous month, up for the second consecutive month, the Cabinet Office said Wednesday. Private-sector orders excluding those for ships and power equipment, closely watched as

Tokyo, Dec. 17 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s exports to the United States in November increased 8.8 pct from a year earlier to 1,816.9 billion yen, up for the first time in eight months, preliminary customs-cleared trade data from the Finance Ministry showed Wednesday. The

Bangkok, Dec. 17 (Jiji Press)–Cambodian authorities have taken into custody 16 Japanese nationals for their suspected involvement in so-called special fraud, such as telephone scams, the Japanese Embassy in the Southeast Asian country said Wednesday. In a series of crackdowns on special

Tokyo, Dec. 17 (Jiji Press)–Financial assets held by Japanese households as of the end of September grew 4.9 pct from a year earlier to 2,286 trillion yen, hitting a record high for two quarters in a row, Bank of Japan data showed

Tokyo, Dec. 17 (Jiji Press)–SBI Shinsei Bank made a comeback to the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Wednesday, fetching the first quotation of 1,586 yen apiece, higher than its initial public offering price of 1,450 yen. Based on the first quotation, the market