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Tokyo, July 1 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Financial Services Agency has ordered Aflac Life Insurance Japan Ltd. to report details of a personal data breach involving information on about 4.38 million customers, the unit of U.S. insurance giant Aflac Inc. said Wednesday. The order

Tokyo, July 1 (Jiji Press)–Construction firms and real estate developers need to work together to address surging labor and materials costs involving large-scale urban redevelopment projects in Japan, Masafumi Kiryu, president of Kajima Corp., a major Japanese construction firm, said in an

Tokyo, July 1 (Jiji Press)–Two Japanese nationals detained in the Chinese city of Dalian in May were arrested in mid- and late June, respectively, Japanese government officials said Wednesday. The two, both Fuji Electric Co. group employees, are believed to have violated

Tokyo, July 1 (Jiji Press)–House of Representatives Speaker Eisuke Mori on Wednesday urged both ruling and opposition parties to return to normal parliamentary business, amid an impasse over bills submitted by the ruling bloc. In a meeting with secretaries-general and other senior

Tokyo, July 1 (Jiji Press)–NTT Docomo Business Inc. plans to spend up to several hundred billion yen on acquisitions, Katsushige Kojima, president and CEO of the Japanese telecommunications company focusing on corporate clients, said in an interview. The company is constantly “looking

Tokyo, July 1 (Jiji Press)–Prices of land facing roads in Japan as of Jan. 1 rose 2.9 pct from a year before on average, up for the fifth straight year, the National Tax Agency said Wednesday. The pace of increase was the

(Adnkronos) – At least 1,028 deaths were recorded in Spain in June due to the heatwave that affected numerous European countries, according to data published by the Carlos III Health Institute in Madrid. This is more than double the 407 heat-related deaths

(Adnkronos) – The clashes in Myanmar have caused a total of 100,114 deaths, after five years ago the army ended a decade of democratic experience in the Southeast Asian country, overthrowing the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and arresting the

(Adnkronos) – United States President Donald Trump earned 1.2 billion dollars last year from commercial activities in the cryptocurrency sector. According to the 927-page document published by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, Trump reportedly received nearly 550 million dollars in 2025

Tokyo, July 1 (Jiji Press)–Chubu Electric Power Co. continued to commit earthquake risk data fraud involving its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in central Japan even after regulators opened an investigation into the scandal, the secretariat of the Nuclear Regulation Authority said Wednesday.