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Tokyo, July 10 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s producer prices in June jumped 7.1 pct from a year earlier, the steepest climb since March 2023, Bank of Japan data showed Friday. The producer price index, which measures the costs of goods traded between companies, stood

Tokyo, July 10 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average briefly climbed over 1,600 points Friday morning as technology issues fared well following overnight rises in U.S. peers. The index of 225 major issues listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Prime section

Tokyo, July 10 (Jiji Press)–Housework, child care and nursing care burdens present bigger obstacles to women than to men for recurrent education, in which people return to education after starting work, the Japanese government said in its 2026 white paper on gender

Tokyo, July 10 (Jiji Press)–Venezuelan Ambassador to Japan has urged sustained support for recovery after last month’s major earthquakes. Speaking at a reconstruction event hosted by the Venezuelan Embassy in Tokyo on Thursday, Ambassador Seiko Ishikawa said no country understands the challenges

Tokyo, July 10 (Jiji Press)–Russian Education Minister Sergey Kravtsov visited Etorofu Island on Tuesday, marking the first visit in two years by a Russian cabinet minister to one of the Moscow-controlled northwestern Pacific islands claimed by Tokyo, the Japanese Embassy in Russia

Tokyo, July 10 (Jiji Press)–A power struggle is brewing among former members of a now-defunct faction of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party that was once led by the late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Those who were considered to be the five

(Adnkronos) – Foreign minister Antonio Tajani, Italy’s Rome-headquartered UN agencies – the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the World Food Programme and the International Fund for Agricultural Development – will on Tuesday look at ways of cooperating on goods and services procurement procedures,

(Adnkronos) – On the instructions of foreign minister Antonio Tajani, the foreign ministry’s secretary-general, Riccardo Guariglia, underlined to Paramonov that the alleged espionage “constitutes serious and unacceptable interference with national security and Italian institutions,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.  Guariglia

(Adnkronos) – After the United States launched fresh strikes on Iran to keep the Strait of Hormuz open to shipping, prompting Iranian attacks on US bases and strategic centres in Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar, Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday

Tokyo, July 9 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party plans to propose that the government introduce a system allowing administrative agencies to intercept private communications without a court warrant for security purposes, Jiji Press learned on Thursday. The introduction of “administrative interception”