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Tokyo, March 5 (Jiji Press)–Japanese industry minister Ryosei Akazawa on Thursday urged the United Arab Emirates to maintain a stable oil supply even amid disruptions caused by Iranian attacks. In a meeting with his UAE counterpart, Sultan Al Jaber, in Tokyo, Akazawa

Tokyo, March 5 (Jiji Press)–The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office and the Fair Trade Commission searched Eneos Wing Corp.’s Tokyo branch on Thursday, the second straight day of raids in a probe into an alleged cartel fixing prices of gas oil sold

Tokyo, March 5 (Jiji Press)–Democratic Party for the People chief Yuichiro Tamaki said Thursday that the opposition party will now join the National Council on Social Security, which is considering the details of a proposed zero consumption tax rate for food products.

Tokyo, March 5 (Jiji Press)–An umbrella organization for labor unions in the automotive, electronics and three other industries in Japan said that as of Monday, member unions were demanding an average monthly pay-scale increase of 14,638 yen per month in this year’s

Jakarta, March 5 (Jiji Press)–Indonesian immigration authorities arrested 13 Japanese nationals after uncovering a fraud base in Bogor in West Java, near Jakarta. The arrests announced on Wednesday mark the first such case involving Japanese citizens in Indonesia, according to the Japanese

Tokyo, March 5 (Jiji Press)–Consumer sentiment in Japan improved to the highest level in about seven years in February as rice and fresh vegetable prices paused their recent surge, a survey released by the Cabinet Office on Wednesday showed. The impact of

Tokyo, March 5 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s annualized real gross domestic product growth for last year’s October-December period is forecast to be revised up to 1.2 pct, according to estimates by 10 private think tanks. The figure, which represents the average among the research

Tokyo, March 5 (Jiji Press)–Kohei Otsuka, a former member of Japan’s House of Councillors, died of heart failure on Monday. He was 66. A native of the central city of Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Otsuka got a job at the Bank of Japan

(A typo in the fifth paragraph has been corrected.) Kairos No. 3 Rocket Launch Unsuccessful Kushimoto, Wakayama Pref., March 5 (Jiji Press)–The launch of Japanese startup Space One Co.’s Kairos No. 3 small rocket ended in failure on Thursday morning, following the

Tokyo, March 5 (Jiji Press)–A Japanese research team has uncovered a part of the mechanism by which a substance found in Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co.’s supplements containing “beni koji,” or red fermented rice, triggered kidney damage, it was learned Thursday. Although it had