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Sendai, Miyagi Pref., June 10 (Jiji Press)–East Japan Railway Co. on Wednesday started operating a specially painted Shinkansen bullet train themed on the 25th anniversary of Tokyo DisneySea, a theme park near the Japanese capital. The train, painted with “jubilee blue,” the

Tokyo, June 10 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s producer prices in May increased 6.3 pct from a year earlier, the biggest rise since March 2023, as crude oil prices remained high due to the deteriorating situation in the Middle East, Bank of Japan data showed

Tokyo, June 10 (Jiji Press)–The Diet, Japan’s parliament, enacted a bill Wednesday to support companies operating projects overseas that are crucial for the country’s economic security to make international transportation networks more resilient. The revised economic security promotion law calls on the

Tokyo, June 10 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government has taken the lead for the first time in launching a survey to assess whether a municipality is suitable to host a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste generated by nuclear power plants across

Tokyo, June 10 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government will extend a soft loan of up to 50 billion yen to Bangladesh to help the South Asian country address soaring energy prices, the Foreign Ministry has said. This is the first yen loan project

Tokyo, June 10 (Jiji Press)–Takehiko Nakao, a former senior official at Japan’s Ministry of Finance, has called on the Bank of Japan to continue raising interest rates. In a recent interview with Jiji Press, Nakao, former vice minister of finance for international

(Adnkronos) – The lower house of parliament’s foreign affairs committee will question Cuba’s ambassdor to Italy Jorge Luis Cepero Aguilar at a hearing on Wednesday, the parliament said in a statement.  The hearing, slated for 3.30 pm, will be livestreamed on the

(Adnkronos) – Italy and Poland want to work together on the main crises in Europe and the Middle East, including Ukraine, Iran and Lebanon and urge negotiations currently taking place to move foward resolutely without further warfare and towards peace, foreign minister

(Adnkronos) – Spencer Pratt, the former reality show star who, with a program and a thoroughly Trumpian style, had an exploit in the primaries for the election of mayor of Los Angeles, at the end of the long scrutiny came in third

(Adnkronos) – Primaries today in four American states, including Maine, where all eyes are on Graham Platner, the controversial oyster farmer who has every chance of becoming the Democratic candidate who will try to unseat Susan Collins, the moderate, anti-Trump Republican, who