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Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–The yield on the latest issue of 10-year Japanese government bonds, regarded as the country’s benchmark long-term interest rate, rose to 1.965 pct in Tokyo trading Monday, hitting the highest level since June 2007. JGBs were under pressure

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–Japanese actor Hiroya Shimizu pleaded guilty to violating the narcotics control law, at the first hearing of his trial at Tokyo District Court on Monday. The prosecution demanded a one-year jail sentence for Shimizu, while the defense sought

Ito, Shizuoka Pref., Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–A record nine candidates have filed to run in the upcoming mayoral election in the central Japan city of Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, following the ouster of former Mayor Maki Takubo over a scandal concerning her academic

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama on Monday called for cooperation from both ruling and opposition parties to enact the government’s supplementary budget swiftly. The Japanese economy is not strong enough as inflation has continued to outpace wage growth,

Stockholm, Dec. 7 (Jiji Press)–Shimon Sakaguchi, the Japanese winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, emphasized in a lecture Sunday that the clinical application of regulatory T cells he discovered in 1995 is possible now. In his Nobel Lecture

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government on Monday disputed claims by Beijing that that Japanese Air-Self Defense Force fighter jets have disrupted Chinese military exercises. “It is wrong to say that SDF aircraft have seriously impeded safe flights by Chinese aircraft,”

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–Japan has confirmed aircraft takeoffs and landings on the Chinese carrier Liaoning near the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa, even amid a row over Saturday’s incident in which Chinese fighter jets directed radar at Japanese jets. According to the

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s gross domestic product in July-September fell an annualized 2.3 pct from the previous quarter after price and seasonal adjustment, the Cabinet Office said in a revised report Monday. The decline was steeper than the 1.8 pct drop

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–The four suspected masterminds behind a series of robberies in the Tokyo metropolitan area last year used other people’s X, formerly Twitter, accounts to recruit individuals for “dark” part-time jobs, investigative sources said Monday. By analyzing smartphones seized

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo Gas Co. does not see any increase in risks in continuing to procure liquefied natural gas from Russia despite stepped-up Western sanctions, President Shinichi Sasayama said. The company will keep working with the government to maintain its