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Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–Sentiment among so-called economy watchers in Japan dropped for the first time in seven months in November, a Cabinet Office survey showed Monday. The seasonally adjusted diffusion index for economy watchers’ current sentiment fell 0.4 point from the

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s opposition forces agreed Monday to demand postponement of discussions on the ruling coalition-proposed bill to cut the number of seats in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, the country’s parliament. The agreement came

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s transport ministry is likely to delay the start planned for fiscal 2026 of construction on the Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train line’s extension linking Tsuruga Station in the central prefecture of Fukui and Shin-Osaka Station in the western

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–The number of corporate bankruptcies in Japan dropped 7.4 pct from a year earlier to 778 in November, marking the first decline in six months and the second-lowest level so far this year, Tokyo Shoko Research Ltd. said

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–The yield on the latest issue of 10-year Japanese government bonds, regarded as the country’s benchmark long-term interest rate, rose to 1.965 pct in Tokyo trading Monday, hitting the highest level since June 2007. JGBs were under pressure

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–Japanese actor Hiroya Shimizu pleaded guilty to violating the narcotics control law, at the first hearing of his trial at Tokyo District Court on Monday. The prosecution demanded a one-year jail sentence for Shimizu, while the defense sought

Ito, Shizuoka Pref., Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–A record nine candidates have filed to run in the upcoming mayoral election in the central Japan city of Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, following the ouster of former Mayor Maki Takubo over a scandal concerning her academic

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama on Monday called for cooperation from both ruling and opposition parties to enact the government’s supplementary budget swiftly. The Japanese economy is not strong enough as inflation has continued to outpace wage growth,

Stockholm, Dec. 7 (Jiji Press)–Shimon Sakaguchi, the Japanese winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, emphasized in a lecture Sunday that the clinical application of regulatory T cells he discovered in 1995 is possible now. In his Nobel Lecture

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government on Monday disputed claims by Beijing that that Japanese Air-Self Defense Force fighter jets have disrupted Chinese military exercises. “It is wrong to say that SDF aircraft have seriously impeded safe flights by Chinese aircraft,”