Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Friday reiterated her cautious stance toward the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. On the day, Takaichi met with Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui and Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki at the prime

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government said Friday that it is considering providing around 5,000 yen a year to low-income workers under a proposed income-linked benefit program. Under the program, a fixed amount is expected to be given to people in

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–A public opinion poll by the Cabinet Office showed Friday that 37.5 pct of Japanese want the government to strengthen disaster reduction measures, up 6.4 percentage points from last year. The proportion was highest since 1992, when this

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government is weighing how to respond to Germany’s interest in joining a Japan-Britain-Italy project to develop a next-generation fighter jet, having acknowledged that Berlin’s participation could cause delays and jeopardize plans to begin deployments in 2035.

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–The 10 newly appointed Japanese ministers held an average of 99.81 million yen in assets, excluding ordinary and current account deposits and shareholdings, as of Sept. 17, when Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi launched her second cabinet, government data

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan agreed Friday that the Senate, the upper house of parliament, will establish a special committee to discuss bills to cut the consumption tax. The Senate

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Japanese internal affairs minister Hisayuki Fujii said Friday that deputy leaders of local governments can initiate the resignation process for their leaders who have become incapacitated due to illness or other factors, based on doctors’ diagnoses. At a

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said Friday that the underlying consumer price index inflation is “generally consistent” with the BOJ’s 2 pct target. His statement, made at a press conference after the end of a two-day monetary

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock average briefly plunged over 1,900 points on Friday, dragged down by renewed selling of artificial intelligence-related shares. The index of 225 major issues listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Prime section finished the day’s

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Justice Ministry said Friday it will start selling merchandise associated with the J.League men’s professional soccer league made by prison inmates as part of prison work. Nineteen J.League clubs, including Nagoya Grampus, Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo and Fukushima

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government decided Friday to allocate an additional 1,145.9 billion yen to a fund for its gasoline subsidy program, which is part of its measures to address rising costs of living amid high fuel prices. For the

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Personal information on about 260 million people in total has been compromised in Japan since April because of cyberattacks, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said Friday. “The number of large-scale leaks is increasing rapidly, and the government is

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Prices of 1,477 products from 195 major food and beverage makers in Japan are set to rise in November, an increase of about 10-fold from 150 items a year before, Teikoku Databank Ltd. said Friday. Meanwhile, the figure

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–The Bank of Japan showed a view Friday that the country’s underlying inflation has reached its 2 pct target, marking a new phase in its monetary policy nearly 14 years after it first set the inflation goal and

Yokohama, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–The Kanagawa prefectural police have arrested six Japanese men aged 22 to 58 for their suspected involvement in a telephone scam from a base in Vietnam. Shunji Seto, 55, Seiya Abe, 28 and the other four were transferred

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s industrial production in September rose 2.2 pct from the previous month, posting the first increase in three months, the industry ministry said in a preliminary report Friday. The seasonally adjusted production index for the manufacturing and mining

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Inflation in central Tokyo stayed above 2 pct for two months in a row in October after the end of the metropolitan government’s water bill exemptions, the Japanese internal affairs ministry said Friday. The core consumer price index

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s job availability ratio rose 0.01 point from the previous month to 1.19 in September, marking its first increase in three months, the labor ministry said Friday. The number of effective job openings leveled off from August, while

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–The Bank of Japan said Friday that the country’s underlying inflation has reached its 2 pct target, marking a new phase in its monetary policy nearly 14 years after it first set the inflation goal and launched large-scale

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–The Bank of Japan said Friday that the country’s underlying inflation has reached its 2 pct target, marking a new phase in its monetary policy nearly 14 years after it first set the inflation goal and launched large-scale

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock average briefly plunged more than 1,900 points Friday morning, dragged down by renewed selling of artificial intelligence-related shares. The index of 225 major issues listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Prime section finished morning

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Employees at the Japanese government have been able to reduce their working hours by 110 minutes per week on average through the use of the “Gennai” generative artificial intelligence platform, a Digital Agency survey showed Friday. The online

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a Chinese man, 24, for allegedly carrying out a spray attack at the Ginza Six shopping complex in the Japanese capital’s upscale Ginza district in May. Ye Shengfeng, 24, a university student

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Private-sector members of a key Japanese government council have proposed active use of surpluses in the state’s foreign exchange special account as financial resources to cover massive fiscal needs. The proposal was presented at Thursday’s meeting of the

Cebu, Philippines, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has held an expanded defense ministers’ meeting with countries including Japan, the United States and China in Cebu, the Philippines, for discussions on security issues. At the meeting held Thursday, China,

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Oriental Land Co., the operator of Tokyo Disney Resort, has posted record-high first-half group sales and operating profit. Sales in April-September rose 10.3 pct from a year before to 348.7 billion yen, while operating profit jumped 15.0 pct

Osaka, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Shiga Bank and Senshu Ikeda Holdings Inc. announced Thursday a basic agreement to launch talks on integrating their operations in April 2028 to create the largest local banking group in the Kansai region of western Japan in terms

(Adnkronos) – A record number of 33 members have been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party at the end of the fifth annual plenary session, which recorded the lowest participation since 2024. Party discipline was on the agenda of the meeting. Xi

(Adnkronos) – A ship chartered by the Israeli company Zim Integrated Shipping Services sank last night after being hit by three naval drones off the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. According to Zim, the crew of the container ship, which departed from the

(Adnkronos) – A few days before the November 3 midterm elections, Democrats see a possibility of winning a majority in the American Senate. According to four new CNN polls, the party’s candidates are ahead in Michigan and Texas, while the races in