Tokyo, June 14 (Jiji Press)–Komazawa University professor Naotaka Kimizuka has praised the ongoing visit to the Netherlands and Belgium by Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako as “extremely significant.” The visit to the two European countries as state guests “will be a

Chiba, June 14 (Jiji Press)–The Chiba prefectural police arrested television personality Bobby Ologun on Sunday on suspicion of nonconsensual sexual intercourse with a female acquaintance. Ologun, 60, whose real name is Bobby Konda, has denied the allegations. “The facts are completely different,”

Amsterdam, June 13 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako arrived at Schiphol Airport near Amsterdam on Saturday evening after leaving Japan aboard a government aircraft for an official visit to the Netherlands and Belgium. This is their first trip to the

Amsterdam, June 13 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako arrived at Schiphol Airport near Amsterdam on Saturday evening after leaving Japan aboard a government aircraft for an official visit to the Netherlands and Belgium. After disembarking from the government aircraft, the

By Masaru Urano Tokyo, June 14 (Jiji Press)–German Ambassador to Japan Petra Sigmund has expressed strong expectations for Japan’s possible participation in a European military drone development program as part of their defense cooperation. “We have reached out to Japanese partners to

Paris, June 13 (Jiji Press)–A two-day sumo tournament started in Paris on Saturday, marking the return of the traditional Japanese wrestling to the French capital after more than 30 years. The tournament, which followed a similar event held in London last October,

Beijing, June 13 (Jiji Press)–Chinese official vessels have begun cracking down on foreign-registered cargo ships in waters off eastern Taiwan, showing unusual demonstrative behavior against Japan and others. The move prompted Taiwan to dispatch patrol ships to the area, heightening tensions temporarily.

Tokyo, June 13 (Jiji Press)–Japanese opposition parties have criticized Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for asking the ruling bloc first to work out details of a planned bill on measures to secure a sufficient number of Imperial Family members. Some opposition lawmakers said

Tokyo, June 13 (Jiji Press)–Japanese political parties are examining the idea of having social media users bear the responsibility of not spreading false or wrong information during election campaign periods. Members of a consultative group between the ruling and opposition camps are

Beijing, June 13 (Jiji Press)–Chinese official vessels have begun cracking down on foreign-registered cargo ships in waters off eastern Taiwan, showing unusual demonstrative behavior against Japan and others. The move prompted Taiwan to dispatch patrol ships to the area, heightening tensions temporarily.

Tokyo, June 13 (Jiji Press)–Japanese opposition party Komeito plans to have its members in the Diet, the country’s parliament, join the Centrist Reform Alliance before the start of an extraordinary Diet session expected for autumn, informed sources told Jiji Press. According to

Tokyo, June 13 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi departed Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Saturday afternoon to attend a three-day summit of the Group of Seven major powers in Evian, eastern France, and also visit Britain and Italy. It will be Takaichi’s

Tokyo, June 13 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese internal affairs ministry has released an online visualization tool that makes it easier to analyze the fiscal conditions of local governments. The so-called dashboard of regional fiscal data allows users to examine data held by the

London, June 13 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has vowed to boost international cooperation to ensure free and safe navigation through the Strait of Hormuz and resilient supply chains for vital goods including energy. In her contribution to the electronic version

Tokyo, June 13 (Jiji Press)–Japanese startup Heartseed Inc. has said it conducted a clinical trial to inject via catheter small masses of heart muscle cells produced from induced pluripotent stem, or iPS, cells into patients with severe heart failure. The Tokyo-based company,

Tokyo, June 13 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako departed for an official visit to the Netherlands and Belgium on Saturday morning aboard a government aircraft from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. The Imperial couple will travel to multiple countries on a single

Tokyo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–U.S. investment fund Warburg Pincus LLC plans to acquire real estate firm J.S.B. Co., Japan’s leading operator of rental housing for university students and students from abroad, it was learned Friday. The fund will launch a tender offer

(Adnkronos) – Foreign minister Antonio Tajani, and South Korea’s president Lee Jae-Myung were late on Friday due to open a bilateral High-Level Economic Forum in Rome. South Korean trade, industry and resources minister Kim Jung-kwan will also speak at the event which

(Adnkronos) – Former South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol has been sentenced to 30 years in prison by a Seoul court for authorizing the sending of drones to North Korea with the aim of provoking an escalation of military tensions and creating the

Tokyo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi visited the Indonesian capital of Jakarta on Friday, meeting with leaders of the Southeast Asian nation. He held talks with Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto and Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin. They are believed to

(Adnkronos) – The British Prime Minister Keir Starmer reiterated, in an interview with the BBC, that “I have no intention of abandoning my position” as premier. Regarding the Labour Party, he added that “I don’t think we should throw the country into

(Adnkronos) – A gigantic 8647 appearing on the lawns of the National Mall in Washington has alarmed federal authorities two days before the anticipated celebrations on Sunday at the White House for Donald Trump’s 80th birthday. The sequence of numbers imprinted on

(Adnkronos) – Foreign minister Antonio Tajani on Friday welcomed the entry into force of accelerated European Union rules on how member states handle migrants and asylum-seekers, which allow applicants to be kept at the bloc’s borders while their cases are processed and

Sapporo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Financial Services Agency on Friday ordered a “shinyo kumiai” credit association, or shinkumi bank, for Korean residents to suspend part of its operations after its management team was found to have covered up an executive’s embezzlements of

Tokyo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–A multifunctional robot designed to help with automated cultivation of Shine Muscat grapes, a luxury variety, was demonstrated at an experimental fruit farm in the city of Yamanashi in the namesake prefecture in central Japan on Friday. The

Tokyo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government adopted an intellectual property promotion program on Friday, including a plan to draw up rules to protect intellectual property rights amid the rapid spread of generative artificial intelligence. At a meeting of the Intellectual Property

Tokyo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s “furusato nozei” hometown donation program offering tax incentives resulted in aggregate net losses for local governments nationwide in most of the eight years from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2024, a Board of Audit of Japan survey showed

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani on Friday defended his and other European countries’ non-involvement in the three-month-old United States-Israel war on Iran which has escalated in the Middle East region, denying reported remarks by US president Donald Trump that Italy,

Tokyo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–Seedlings of Beni Princess, a premium citrus variety developed by the western Japan prefecture of Ehime, may have been leaked to China, Japanese agriculture minister Norikazu Suzuki said Friday. The agriculture ministry learned last year that seedlings with

Tokyo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways said Friday that they will raise the fuel surcharges they add to airfares to a record 65,000 yen for tickets to be issued in July and August for flights from Japan to