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(Adnkronos) – Alarm in Nepal over the collapse of a dam in Tibet. Nepalese authorities have issued a warning to citizens and rescuers ‘to move to higher ground’ after an upstream dam in Tibet reportedly collapsed, two days after a glacier detachment

Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Pref., Aug. 28 (Jiji Press)–Children returned to school after the summer break in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture on Friday, a month after a major earthquake struck the southwestern Japan prefecture. The second term started at 40 elementary, junior high schools and

Tokyo, Aug. 28 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi on Friday held 20-minute phone talks with International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane of Japan. This was the first such discussion between Motegi and Akane since the United States announced sanctions against Akane

Tokyo, Aug. 28 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Defense Ministry on Friday concluded a contract with Nippon Steel Corp. to acquire a former plant site in Kure in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, to develop a multifunctional defense complex there. The approximately 140-hectare land plot, Nippon

Tokyo, Aug. 28 (Jiji Press)–Japanese system developer Dentsu Soken Inc. said Friday that it plans to go private through a tender offer by a subsidiary of trading house Itochu Corp. The tender offer will start in early November at the earliest, contingent

Tokyo, Aug. 28 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Friday that he will visit Turkmenistan, Slovakia, Austria and Mongolia from Saturday through Sept. 4 to hold talks with his counterparts. In Slovakia, Motegi will also meet with foreign ministers from the

Tokyo, Aug. 28 (Jiji Press)–Japanese authorities spent 15,399.3 billion yen in foreign exchange market interventions from July 30 to Wednesday, the Finance Ministry said Friday. The figure marked the largest-ever monthly amount spent on yen-buying, dollar-selling interventions. END [Copyright The Jiji Press,

Tokyo, Aug. 28 (Jiji Press)–Japan has entered the influenza season, the health ministry said Friday, marking the second earliest start since 1999, when the infectious disease control law went into force. In the week to Sunday, the number of flu patients reported

Tokyo, Aug. 28 (Jiji Press)–The opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan informed the Centrist Reform Alliance and Komeito on Friday that it will not take part in a proposed merger with the two other opposition parties. The three parties tried to form

Tokyo, Aug. 28 (Jiji Press)–The number of births in Japan rose in the first half of the year for the first time in 11 years, health ministry data showed Friday in a sign that the figure’s rapid decline is ending. The preliminary