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Tokyo, Jan. 18 (Jiji Press)–Senior officials from Japan’s ruling and opposition camps both expressed willingness to cut the consumption tax, in a television debate on Sunday ahead of the anticipated general election. Shunichi Suzuki, secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, indicated

Tokyo, Jan. 18 (Jiji Press)–People in snowy regions in Japan are concerned about a snap election for the House of Representatives that is likely to be held on Feb. 8, in the middle of winter. It will be the first general election

Tokyo, Jan. 17 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Saturday that an alert system did not work during a test operation prior to the restart of the No. 6 reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture on the

Tokyo, Jan. 17 (Jiji Press)–The Bank of Japan is adopting a wait-and-see approach over the U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, while other central banks around the globe have expressed their support for him. BOJ Governor Kazuo

Tokyo, Jan. 17 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and his Indian counterpart, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, have agreed to boost collaboration in the fields of economic security and artificial intelligence, based on an agreement reached at last August’s bilateral summit. At Friday’s strategic

Kobe, Jan. 17 (Jiji Press)–Bereaved families and others renewed their commitment to passing on their experiences and lessons from the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake in western Japan to future generations on Saturday, the 31st anniversary of the disaster, amid concerns over a

Tokyo, Jan. 17 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s annual two-day unified university entrance examinations started on Saturday at 650 venues across the country. A total of 496,237 final-year high school students and others are taking the exams. Applications for the exams were accepted online only

Tokyo, Jan. 17 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s health ministry has asked local governments across the country to survey safety management at sauna facilities following a fatal accident in Tokyo last December, Jiji Press learned Saturday. In a notice dated Wednesday, the ministry requested that

Tokyo, Jan. 17 (Jiji Press)–Yoshihiko Noda, leader of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, is likely to be the prime minister candidate of the Centrist Reform Alliance, a new party jointly formed by the CDP and Komeito, a former member

Tokyo, Jan. 17 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Foreign Ministry has raised its travel alert on Iran to the highest level, advising Japanese citizens not to travel to the country for any purpose, in light of heightened tension there due to anti-regime protests. The ministry