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Tokyo, Feb. 9 (Jiji Press)–The two co-leaders of the Centrist Reform Alliance announced their resignations on Monday, following the major opposition party’s crushing defeat in Japan’s general election on Sunday. The party, which was formed by the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan

Tokyo, Feb. 9 (Jiji Press)–Sixty-eight women were elected to Japan’s House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, in Sunday’s vote, the second highest figure. Women accounted for 14.6 pct of successful candidates, also the second highest on record. The previous Lower

Tokyo, Feb. 9 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s inflation-adjusted real wages in 2025 fell 1.3 pct from the previous year, down for the fourth consecutive year, due to price increases for food and other items outpacing wage hikes, the labor ministry said in a preliminary

Washington, Feb. 8 (Jiji Press)–U.S. President Donald Trump congratulated Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on her ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s landslide victory in Sunday’s House of Representatives election. “I wish you Great Success in passing your Conservative, Peace Through Strength Agenda,” Trump

Tokyo, Feb. 9 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s current account surplus in 2025 rose 11.1 pct from the previous year to a record 31,879.9 billion yen, the Finance Ministry said in a preliminary report Monday. The country’s combined balance of goods and services trade thus

Milan, Feb. 9 (Jiji Press)–Japan won the silver medal in the figure skating team event at the Milan-Cortina Olympics on Sunday, as it did at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. The Japanese team earned a total score of 68, just behind the U.S.

Tokyo, Feb. 9 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s business community welcomes the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s landslide victory in Sunday’s House of Representatives election to regain a single-party majority in the all-important lower chamber of the Diet, the country’s parliament. “We welcome (the LDP victory),”

Tokyo, Feb. 9 (Jiji Press)–Voter turnout in Japan’s general election on Sunday stood at 56.26 pct, up from 53.85 pct in the previous House of Representatives election in 2024 while marking the fifth-lowest figure since the end of World War II, an

Tokyo, Feb. 9 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average briefly soared more than 3,000 points to top 57,000 for the first time ever in early trading on Monday, as a wide range of issues attracted buying after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s

Tokyo, Feb. 9 (Jiji Press)–Heavyweight candidates from the opposition Centrist Reform Alliance lost their constituency races in Sunday’s election for Japan’s House of Representatives, the all-important lower chamber of parliament. Party co-secretary-general Jun Azumi failed to win back his seat in the