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Tokyo, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi has told his Ukrainian counterpart, Andrii Sybiha, that Japan will continue to support the war-torn Eastern European country and impose sanctions against Russia in coordination with its Group of Seven partners and the

Tokyo, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)–Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corp. plans to issue a stablecoin, a type of digital asset, whose value is linked to legal tender, in fiscal 2026 starting in April, President and CEO Hiroshi Kubota said in a recent

(Adnkronos) – Horror in the Burgundy region, France, where a woman in her fifties was arrested by police after the discovery of the bodies of two newborns in the freezer of her home in Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont. Le Figaro reports that the woman is

(Adnkronos) – A 6.1 magnitude earthquake on the Richter Scale was recorded in northern Chile with an epicenter near 15 kilometers southeast of Fray Jorge Park, in the Coquimbo region. This was announced by the national seismological center. The tremors were also

(Adnkronos) – “President Trump has promised mass deportations (of migrants, ed.), and that is what this country will have.” This was stated by the ‘border czar’, Tom Homan, during a press conference in Minneapolis in which he announced that Operation Metro Surge

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani is among over 1,000 guests including some 50 world leaders attending the Munich Security conference on Friday through Monday. Security, defence, global crises and the future of Europe’s relationship with the US amid frayed transatlantic

Tokyo, Feb. 12 (Jiji Press)–The labor union at Japan’s Daihatsu Motor Co. plans to demand a wage increase of 22,000 yen per month in this year’s “shunto” spring labor-management negotiations, Jiji Press learned Thursday. The figure will surpass last year’s request of

Tokyo, Feb. 12 (Jiji Press)–Softbank Group Corp. said Thursday that its consolidated net profit in April-December last year increased fivefold from a year before to 3,172.6 billion yen, thanks to investment profits mainly from U.S. artificial intelligence powerhouse OpenAI. Subsidiaries of the

Tokyo, Feb. 12 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Rakuten Group Inc. said Thursday that it logged a consolidated net loss of 177.8 billion yen in the fiscal year ended December 2025, marking the seventh consecutive year of red ink. The result was worse than the

Yokohama, Feb. 12 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Nissan Motor Co. said Thursday it expects to post a group net loss of 650 billion yen for fiscal 2025 ending next month, marking its second straight year in the red. As the reasons for the dismal