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Kobe, Oct. 8 (Jiji Press)–Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. held a ceremony to launch a new 80.5-billion-yen nonnuclear submarine for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force at a shipyard in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Thursday. The Shogei submarine, the seventh Taigei-class, is

Tokyo, Oct. 8 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Thursday that she has instructed agriculture minister Kazuo Yana to stay in office after reprimanding him for making inappropriate remarks about cutting road budgets for municipalities whose mayors did not support him

Tokyo, Oct. 8 (Jiji Press)–Since Japan stopped accepting new foreign workers in the restaurant industry with the Type I residency status for specified skilled workers in April, rising demand for such workers has driven them to urban areas, exacerbating labor shortages in

Tokyo, Oct. 8 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Fast Retailing Co., the operator of Uniqlo and other casual clothing stores, said Thursday that its sales for the year that ended in August jumped 16.6 pct from the previous year to a record 3,963.3 billion yen.

Tokyo, Oct. 8 (Jiji Press)–Kenso Soai, a 76-year-old Japanese researcher, won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry after spending day after day immersing himself in painstaking experimentation without complaint. What is important in research is “to keep on conducting experiments,” Soai said

Hong Kong, Oct. 8 (Jiji Press)–U.S. President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping at their summit last month to hold a bilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, an English-language newspaper in Hong Kong reported Thursday. Xi was not receptive

Tokyo, Oct. 8 (Jiji Press)–Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman is expected to visit Japan in late October for talks with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, Jiji Press learned Thursday. The two leaders are expected to affirm cooperation in a wide range of areas,

Tokyo, Oct. 8 (Jiji Press)–A corporate culture that placed excessive emphasis on sales performance was cited as a cause of fraud by employees of Prudential Life Insurance Co. who defrauded customers of money, a third-party investigation report showed Thursday. The report said

Paris, Oct. 7 (Jiji Press)–A signing ceremony was held in France on Wednesday for a sister-street partnership between Midosuji, the main street in the western Japan city of Osaka, and the Avenue des Champs-Elysees, a famous tourist attraction in Paris. The ceremony

Baku, Oct. 7 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Haruka Kaju won gold for the women’s 63-kilogram category at the 2026 World Judo Championships on Wednesday, claiming the title in the weight division for the second straight year. The 26-year-old secured her ninth consecutive international judo