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Tokyo, Oct. 7 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s inflation-adjusted real wage index rose 1.5 pct in August from a year before, up for the eighth consecutive month, labor ministry data showed Wednesday. The rise came as inflation slowed from a year earlier, with salary growth

Tokyo, Oct. 7 (Jiji Press)–Japan has seen a spate of cyberattacks targeting companies that resulted in breaches of personal information. While affected companies are scrambling to pay compensation and prevent recurrences, corporate Japan faces mounting challenges as the widespread adoption of artificial

Tokyo, Oct. 7 (Jiji Press)–Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. has unveiled a prototype of a dog-shaped social robot that helps elderly people’s life at home. Leveraging physical artificial intelligence, the robot, Home Leo, can talk to people, recognize its surroundings, make appropriate decisions

Tokyo, Oct. 7 (Jiji Press)–University students in Japan have rushed to participate in an event allowing them to experience government intelligence jobs, at a time when the administration of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi seeks to boost the country’s intelligence capabilities. The Public

(Adnkronos) – The Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), which at the end of April had taken control of the strategic locality of Kidal, in northern Mali, announced on Tuesday a “strategic withdrawal” of forces in the face of Army operations to regain control

(Adnkronos) – War of numbers on participation in student demonstrations in France. According to the French Interior Ministry, 256,000 people marched across the country today, including 56,000 in Paris. Previously, student and high school organizations estimated the number of demonstrators across the

Tokyo, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–Renowned Japanese pianist Kyohei Sorita has been indicted without being arrested for an alleged speeding violation, it was learned Tuesday. According to the indictment, Sorita, 32, drove a car at a speed of 144 kilometers per hour, exceeding

Tokyo, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–Road-related budgets for two municipalities in the eastern Japan prefecture of Tochigi, whose mayors did not back agriculture minister Kazuo Yana in the House of Representatives election in February, have been slashed by as much as around 54

Naha, Okinawa Pref., Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–Okinawa Governor Genta Koja will visit Tokyo on Wednesday for the first time since his election last month to meet with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi. Following the