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Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)–Retail egg prices in Japan hit a record high in October apparently because of the effects of a bird flu outbreak last year and rising demand as the year-end approaches. The average price of a pack of 10

New Delhi, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)–A business mission led by Ken Kobayashi, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has begun a week-long visit to India. This is the first time in eight years that the JCCI has sent a

New York, Oct. 27 (Jiji Press)–A U.N. General Assembly committee adopted by majority vote a Japan-led resolution seeking the abolition of nuclear weapons. At the assembly’s First Committee dealing with disarmament, the resolution received support from 150 countries, while seven, including China,

Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)–The bereaved family of a Kurdish man holding Turkish nationality who died in custody at a Tokyo police station has sued the Tokyo metropolitan government and the clinic where the police station’s contract doctor works. In the suit

Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a cyberattack that recently hit Japan’s GMO Internet Inc. after being contacted by the company for consultations, investigative sources said Wednesday. The police examined the extent of damage from the cyberattack as

Hiroshima, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)–Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, which exhibits items from the Aug. 6, 1945, U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city of Hiroshima. At the invitation of an acquaintance,

Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)–More than 90 pct of bicycle users said they had felt unsafe while riding on roads shared with automobiles, a survey by a Tokyo-based bicycle parking lot operator has found six months after Japan introduced the “blue ticket”

Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s new agriculture minister, Arata Takebe, has said that thorough “scientific discussions” must be held on a plan to lift the ban on imports of fresh potatoes from the United States. The discussions will take “considerable time,” he

Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s agriculture ministry plans to buy back an additional 100,000 tons of rice from the private sector to replenish the government’s stockpiles after some of the state rice reserves was released in and after March last year, it

Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)–Shipping company Nippon Yusen K.K., power and energy firm Jera Co., Imabari Shipbuilding Co. and four other Japanese corporations have announced a partnership to promote ammonia-fueled ships. The seven, also including shipping company Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd., Kyokuyo