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Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock average briefly plunged over 1,900 points on Friday, dragged down by renewed selling of artificial intelligence-related shares. The index of 225 major issues listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Prime section finished the day’s

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Justice Ministry said Friday it will start selling merchandise associated with the J.League men’s professional soccer league made by prison inmates as part of prison work. Nineteen J.League clubs, including Nagoya Grampus, Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo and Fukushima

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government decided Friday to allocate an additional 1,145.9 billion yen to a fund for its gasoline subsidy program, which is part of its measures to address rising costs of living amid high fuel prices. For the

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Personal information on about 260 million people in total has been compromised in Japan since April because of cyberattacks, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said Friday. “The number of large-scale leaks is increasing rapidly, and the government is

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Prices of 1,477 products from 195 major food and beverage makers in Japan are set to rise in November, an increase of about 10-fold from 150 items a year before, Teikoku Databank Ltd. said Friday. Meanwhile, the figure

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–The Bank of Japan showed a view Friday that the country’s underlying inflation has reached its 2 pct target, marking a new phase in its monetary policy nearly 14 years after it first set the inflation goal and

Yokohama, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–The Kanagawa prefectural police have arrested six Japanese men aged 22 to 58 for their suspected involvement in a telephone scam from a base in Vietnam. Shunji Seto, 55, Seiya Abe, 28 and the other four were transferred

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s industrial production in September rose 2.2 pct from the previous month, posting the first increase in three months, the industry ministry said in a preliminary report Friday. The seasonally adjusted production index for the manufacturing and mining

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Inflation in central Tokyo stayed above 2 pct for two months in a row in October after the end of the metropolitan government’s water bill exemptions, the Japanese internal affairs ministry said Friday. The core consumer price index

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–The Bank of Japan said Friday that the country’s underlying inflation has reached its 2 pct target, marking a new phase in its monetary policy nearly 14 years after it first set the inflation goal and launched large-scale