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Tokyo, Sept. 16 (Jiji Press)–Hitachi Energy Ltd. said Wednesday that it will invest 528 million dollars to build a transformer manufacturing plant in Mississippi to meet surging U.S. power demand amid wider use of artificial intelligence. The Swiss unit of Hitachi Ltd.

(Adnkronos) – Health officials in the Gaza Strip reported that at least five people, including children, have died and another 13 were injured in the collapse of a residential building in the al-Sana’a area, in the southwestern part of Gaza City. More

(Adnkronos) – At least three people have died and another was seriously injured in the crash of an NBC News helicopter in Los Angeles, according to local fire officials. The helicopter crashed near the scene of another fatal accident involving a bus

Tokyo, Sept. 16 (Jiji Press)–Kansai Electric Power Co. and Tohoku Electric Power Co. have expressed an intention to join an interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday. The facility

Tokyo, Sept. 16 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s prosecution recorded or videotaped about 13,500 interrogations during the half year through March in at-home cases involving suspects not arrested or held in custody, the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office said Wednesday. About 9,000 of the cases resulted

Tokyo, Sept. 16 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo District Court sentenced a former president of event management company Same Two Inc. to 18 months in prison, suspended for three years, on Wednesday for bid-rigging related to the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2021. The

Tokyo, Sept. 16 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s seasonally adjusted core machinery orders in July fell 3.7 pct from the previous month, following a 9.7 pct increase in June, the Cabinet Office said Wednesday. Machinery orders are showing signs of picking up, the government agency

Tokyo, Sept. 16 (Jiji Press)–Japan logged a customs-cleared trade deficit of 1,105.6 billion yen in August, marking the fourth consecutive month of red ink, the Finance Ministry said in a preliminary report Wednesday. The figure was nearly four times larger than the

Washington, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–Japanese and U.S. lawmakers Tuesday agreed that deterring China is important to prevent a contingency involving Taiwan. The view was shared at a meeting in Washington between a pro-Taiwan group of lawmakers from Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party

Brussels, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp. and seven other major automobile and energy companies said Tuesday that they will work together to help spread large trucks that run on hydrogen in Europe. The eight will collaborate in a wide range