Osaka, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–Osaka District Court on Wednesday ordered Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. to pay about 90 million yen in total damages to some plaintiffs in a lawsuit over evacuations following the March 2011 accident at TEPCO’s tsunami-stricken Fukushima

Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–An advisory panel of Japan’s agriculture ministry on Wednesday approved a plan for the government to buy back 210,000 tons of rice to replenish is stockpiles of the cereal grain. The ministry presented the plan at the day’s

Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Mitsubishi Motors Corp. unveiled the new Pajero, an SUV model, at an event in Tokyo on Wednesday, with sales in the country scheduled to start Dec. 17. The release will mark the Pajero’s return after its production

Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Foreign Ministry is developing a smartphone app that uses GPS data to identify the locations of Japanese nationals either living or traveling overseas, it was learned Wednesday. The app, which will access users’ location information with their

Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force, and the U.S. and Australian militaries held an opening ceremony Wednesday for their joint command post exercise to be staged at multiple locations in Japan. The exercise, Yama Sakura, will involve about 5,200 GSDF

Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark 10-year government bond yield, regarded as the country’s key long-term interest rate, briefly rose to a new 30-year high of 3.015 pct in Tokyo trading on Wednesday amid concern over rising inflation in the United States.

Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–Japanese manga artist Masami Kurumada said Wednesday that a former executive of three companies Kurumada heads, along with other individuals, allegedly embezzled about 4.6 billion yen. The former executive also served as Kurumada’s manager. Kurumada is best known

(Adnkronos) – A cargo ship sank after a night collision with another vessel in the Sea of Marmara, southwest of Istanbul, 18 nautical miles from Silivri. This was announced by the Turkish Directorate General of Maritime Affairs. “Since the Tugberk İmamoglu ship

(Adnkronos) – Three weeks after the 7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck western Colombia on August 10, the initial phase of the emergency has concluded, but thousands of people continue to have difficulty accessing medical care, psychological support, food, and materials needed to

Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–Japanese police need to introduce remote analysis of communications between members of “tokuryu” loosely organized anonymous criminal groups to prevent damage caused by them, an expert panel said Wednesday. “It is difficult to clarify encrypted communication content with

Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–A Tokyo woman with fibromyalgia is sharing on social media her experience of remaining undiagnosed for over a decade despite her persisting symptoms, highlighting challenges faced by the estimated two million patients in Japan. She is calling for

Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark 10-year government bond yield, regarded as the country’s key long-term interest rate, briefly rose to a new 30-year high of 3.015 pct in Tokyo trading on Wednesday amid concern over rising inflation in the United States.

New York, Sept. 1 (Jiji Press)–U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent spent over two hours talking about his frustration with economic policies under the administration of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, during a dinner in May with his Japanese counterpart in Tokyo, The

Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Children and Families Agency plans to subsidize community efforts to prevent child suicides in fiscal 2027, which starts in April next year. The agency will provide subsidies when local governments partner with child-related organizations to establish councils

New York, Sept. 1 (Jiji Press)–There will be no means of providing relief once nuclear weapons are used, a senior member of Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, said at a conference at the U.N. headquarters

Sapporo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–The Bank of Japan has entered a new phase this year in which the central bank will raise interest rates in a nimble manner, policymaker Hajime Takata said Wednesday. “While rate hikes were conducted at a moderate pace

Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi reiterated her determination on Wednesday to strengthen the country’s defense capabilities amid the severe security environment, including China’s military buildup. “Unless we have the resolve to venture into a new world without fear

Asheville, North Carolina, Sept. 1 (Jiji Press)–U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that he has called on Japan to end its reflationary policy, such as its massive monetary easing aimed at pulling the country out of deflation. While referring to “a

Asheville, North Carolina, Sept. 1 (Jiji Press)–Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of 20 major economies called for the elimination of nonmarket policies that fuel global imbalances, according to a chair’s statement published after their meeting closed Tuesday. “We

Asheville, North Carolina, Sept. 1 (Jiji Press)–The Bank of Japan will discuss whether to raise interest rates at every meeting, including the next gathering on Sept. 17-18, Governor Kazuo Ueda said Tuesday. “We’ll fully discuss (a rate increase) at every policy meeting,

Kumamoto, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–While a shopping mall explosion and areas struggling with water outages following a massive earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture in late July have made major headlines, people in some quake-affected areas in the southwestern Japan prefecture are concerned about

Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Japan is fully responsible for the deterioration of relations between Tokyo and Moscow, Russia’s state-run Tass news agency reported. Putin reportedly said that Japan’s reaction to his visit to a disputed

New York, Sept. 1 (Jiji Press)–SB Energy Inc., an artificial intelligence infrastructure developer backed by Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp., has filed for an initial public offering on the U.S. Nasdaq market, the company said Tuesday. SB Energy did not disclose the offering

Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–The government of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi marked a major shift in Japan’s fiscal management strategy with its first Basic Policy on Economic and Fiscal Management and Reform, adopted in July. The government said it would tolerate a

Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock average briefly gave up more than 1,800 points Wednesday morning, as inflation concerns flared again following a fresh U.S. attack on Iran. At 9:41 a.m., the index of 225 major issues listed on the

Asheville, North Carolina, Sept. 1 (Jiji Press)–U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda that he supports actions by Japanese authorities to tackle the undervaluation of the yen, the Treasury Department said Tuesday. In talks with Ueda on

Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–As Japan has been slow to introduce a system that allows married couples to have different surnames, matchmaking events for people with the same surname have emerged as a hack for circumventing surname changes upon marriage under the

Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–The breakup of the Centrist Reform Alliance has become all but certain as the seven-month-old Japanese opposition party failed to forge unity. The party was launched in January, ahead of the Feb. 8 general election for the House

(Adnkronos) – Homemade explosive devices have been found near a power plant in eastern Germany, close to the Polish border. Brandenburg police told AFP. “They did not explode, no one was injured, and we had no problems with electricity supply,” a police

(Adnkronos) – Millions of Americans risk not receiving their mail-in ballots in time, or not receiving them at all, for the November 3 midterm elections due to the new IT system developed by the United States Postal Service (USPS). This is the