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Tokyo, March 23 (Jiji Press)–Prices of rice sold at about 1,000 supermarkets in Japan in the week to March 15 averaged 3,980 yen per 5 kilograms, down 33 yen from the prior week and falling below 4,000 yen for the first time

(Adnkronos) – It is mandatory to provide mobile phone and PC passwords to the Police. Or risk prison. This is happening in Hong Kong where officers can ask for ‘secret codes’ from anyone suspected of violating the controversial “national security” law, enacted

Seoul, March 23 (Jiji Press)–Kim Yo Jong, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s younger sister, on Monday ruled out the possibility of the country holding a summit with Japan, the Korean Central News Agency reported. At her meeting with U.S. President Donald

Tokyo, March 23 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Monday that the government will consider compiling a stopgap budget, based on the assumption that its fiscal 2026 regular budget will not be passed by the March 31 end of fiscal 2025.

Osaka, March 23 (Jiji Press)–Osaka High Court has accepted an appeal filed by defense lawyers in a high-profile deadly arson attack on a studio of Kyoto Animation Co., it was learned Monday. After being sentenced to death by Kyoto District Court in

Tokyo, March 23 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Monday that she conveyed during her summit with U.S. President Donald Trump last week Tokyo’s support for U.S. leadership for world peace. During the summit at the White House on Thursday, Takaichi

Tokyo, March 23 (Jiji Press)–Japanese companies have offered pay hikes of 5.26 pct on a weighted average basis in this year’s “shunto” spring labor-management negotiations, the first tally by the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo, showed Monday. The result attested to

(Adnkronos) – The trial has opened concerning the worst railway tragedy in Greece’s history, that of 2023 in Tempe, in which 57 people lost their lives, mostly young people between 15 and 25 years old. This was announced by Afp. Thirty-six people

Tokyo, March 23 (Jiji Press)–East Japan Railway Co., or JR East, started operating a freight-only Shinkansen bullet train Monday, transporting goods from Morioka, the capital of Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, to Tokyo. The seven-car train, converted from an E3 series passenger train

Osaka, March 23 (Jiji Press)–Osaka High Court on Monday upheld a lower court ruling that found a 30-year-old women not guilty over the death in 2018 of her then 77-year-old husband, a wealthy businessman nicknamed the “Don Juan of Kishu,” in Wakayama