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Tokyo, Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Nippon Paint Holdings Co. said Monday it will acquire Dutch rival Akzo Nobel NV’s decorative paints business in Southeast Asia and Oceania for about 1.35 billion dollars. The acquisition, covering Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Australia and

Tokyo, Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)–An extraordinary session of the Diet, Japan’s parliament, convened on Monday, setting the stage for the first parliamentary debate since the cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi last month. In the 222nd Diet session, scheduled to run

Naha, Okinawa Pref., Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)–Okinawa Governor Genta Koja said Monday he will travel to Tokyo this week to directly lodge a protest to the Japanese government following the arrest of a U.S. Marine in Okinawa on suspicion of murder and

Anamizu, Ishikawa Pref., Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Kazuo Yana stressed his resolve to promote restoration in disaster-hit Ishikawa and Kumamoto prefectures during his visits to afflicted areas over the weekend. He inspected progress in the work to

Yokohama, Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)–Seven people have filed their candidacies in the mayoral election of Yokohama, near Tokyo, including scandal-hit former Mayor Takeharu Yamanaka, kicking off the two-week official campaign period from Sunday. The key is whether Yamanaka will be re-elected in

Tokyo, Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average surged over 1,700 points Monday morning to retake 70,000 briefly for the first time on an intraday basis since July 6. The index of 225 major issues listed on the Tokyo Stock

Naha, Okinawa Pref., Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)–About 100 people gathered near the Okinawa prefectural government building Sunday, in protest after a U.S. Marine was arrested in a murder-robbery case in the southernmost Japan prefecture. Many participants voiced anger at the case and

Bangkok, Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)–Thai police have taken two Japanese men in their 20s into protective custody in the western province of Kanchanaburi, which borders Myanmar. The Japanese nationals, who are believed to have been forced to join fraud at a base

Tokyo, Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)–The mother of Megumi Yokota, a Japanese woman abducted to North Korea at age 13 in 1977, continues praying for a reunion with her daughter, with her loved one turning 62 on Monday. “There has been no information

Kaminoseki, Yamaguchi Pref., Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)–Kaminoseki Mayor Tetsuo Nishi, who is in favor of the town in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, hosting an interim storage facility for spent fuel from nuclear power plants, won re-election on Sunday. The election was the