Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Financial Services Agency said Tuesday that it will closely monitor financial institutions to ensure consumer protection amid the growing use of ultra-long-term mortgages as interest rates and housing prices rise. The popularity of 40- to 50-year mortgages

Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–Chubu Electric Power Co. said Tuesday that a fire occurred on the day at its idled Hamaoka nuclear power plant in central Japan. The fire caused no injury or had no impact on the safety of the plant

Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–Sharp Corp. said Tuesday that it has begun accepting orders for servers designed to run artificial intelligence models. The Japanese company, a unit of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., a Taiwanese contract electronics manufacturer, aims to achieve 250

(The first sentence of the fourth paragraph should have read, “…did not check her identification…,” instead of as sent. A substitute story follows.) Ex-Tokyo Massage Shop Owner Found Guilty of Exploiting Thai Girl Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–A Japanese court on Tuesday

Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s government adopted a tax system reform package featuring a temporary consumption tax cut for food and an income-linked benefit program, at an extraordinary cabinet meeting Tuesday. The consumption tax rate on food will be lowered from the

Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force said that it lost contact with a Global Hawk surveillance drone over waters some 50 kilometers off the cost of Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, around 1 p.m. on Tuesday. According to the ASDF website,

Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–Japanese land price data released Tuesday show cases in which municipalities that have attracted new residents through their child-rearing and relocation support programs enjoyed higher residential land prices. In areas along the Tsukuba Express, or TX, railway line,

(Adnkronos) – Jiji press – The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), which organizes the Games, is committed to bringing people together across languages, cultures, and borders and passing international friendship and peace on to future generations. Aichi-Nagoya 2026 aims to harness the

Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–The benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond yield, a key long-term interest rate, rose to a new 30-year high of 3.035 pct on Tuesday after U.S. long-term rates rose on surging crude oil prices. According to Japan Bond Trading

Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s land prices rose for the fifth consecutive year amid a mild economic recovery trend in the country, the land ministry said Monday. As of July 1, the nationwide average land price climbed 1.5 pct from a year

Shizuoka, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–Chubu Electric Power Co. President Kingo Hayashi on Tuesday apologized to local government leaders over the company’s earthquake risk data fraud involving the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan. Chubu Electric submitted to the

Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–The benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond yield, a key long-term interest rate, rose to a new 30-year high of 3.03 pct on Tuesday after U.S. long-term rates rose on surging crude oil prices. According to Japan Bond Trading

Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–The number of people aged 100 or over in Japan stood at 107,677 as of Sept. 1, topping 100,000 for the first time since statistics began in 1963, the health ministry said Tuesday. The centenarian population hit a

Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–Go Inc., operator of a taxi-hailing app, Waymo LLC and Nihon Kotsu Co. said Tuesday that they will jointly launch driverless taxi services in Tokyo in 2027, marking Japan’s first such commercial service. The service would use Level

Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons has voiced his hopes that Tokyo would host another Summer Paralympics. In a recent interview with the Jiji Press in Tokyo, the 49-year-old praised again the Tokyo Paralympics in 2021, held without

Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who also heads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, announced Tuesday that she will reshuffle the party’s leadership team Wednesday and the cabinet Thursday. The announcement was made at a meeting of LDP executives

Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s government at an extraordinary cabinet meeting Tuesday afternoon is set to adopt a tax system reform package featuring a temporary consumption tax cut for food and an income-linked benefit program. Under the package, the consumption tax rate

Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government at an extraordinary cabinet meeting Tuesday afternoon is set to adopt a tax system reform package featuring a temporary consumption tax cut for food and an income-linked benefit program. Under the package, the consumption tax

Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who also heads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, announced Tuesday that she will reshuffle the party’s leadership team Wednesday and the cabinet Thursday. The announcement was made at a meeting of LDP executives

Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–Artificial intelligence is gaining ground in weather forecasting. Weather forecasts have traditionally relied on numerical weather prediction, in which supercomputers process observational data and simulate atmospheric conditions on the basis of the laws of physics. In recent years,

Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–Personal data on 1,570 customers of Tokyo-based Prudential Life Insurance Co. has been leaked after a former sales employee improperly took records outside the company and later lost them. The former employee, who worked at the company’s Tama

Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi has condemned pro-Iran Houthi rebels in Yemen, which are stepping up its attacks in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and other locations. In phone talks with Yemeni Foreign Minister Afrah Al-Zouba on Monday, Motegi

Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–A cross-party group of Japanese lawmakers has urged Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to express support for the International Criminal Court in her address during the general debate at the U.N. General Assembly session Sept. 22. The Nonpartisan Parliamentary

Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–The Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, has called for corporate tax breaks for large firms that support partner small businesses’ activities to develop human resources. The nation’s biggest business lobby included the measure in its proposals to be

(Adnkronos) – Andrei Rublev’s Trinity icon, which had been transferred in 2023, by decree of Vladimir Putin, from Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery to the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius in Sergiev Posad, has been moved from the church’s iconostasis, while remaining within

(Adnkronos) – “The alarm bells are ringing like never before, and the Trump administration is turning the other way. If they don’t take their responsibilities, we will. And if Trump doesn’t act, Congress must.” This is what the Senate Democratic leader, Chuck

(Adnkronos) – The father of British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, Roy Burnham, has died. Downing Street announced this, stating that the Prime Minister has canceled his engagements scheduled for today and tomorrow. Before taking over the leadership of the British government, the

Tokyo, Sept. 14 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is considering appointing former Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Hideki Murai as parliamentary affairs chief of her ruling Liberal Democratic Party in an upcoming reshuffle of the party’s leadership team, it has been learned.

Shizuoka, Sept. 14 (Jiji Press)–Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, said Monday that it will charge off-season Mount Fuji climbers for rescues using its helicopters, aiming to implement this measure in September 2027. The measure has been requested by mayors of local municipalities

(Adnkronos) – Alice Weidel, co-leader of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (Alternative fuer Deutschland, AfD), has called for new general elections, emphasizing that her party is ready to govern.  “Given the disastrous situation of the coalition (between conservatives and social democrats),