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Tokyo, Sept. 4 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Self-Defense Forces will continue to limit the eligibility for joining them to Japanese nationals and not consider hiring foreigners, Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Friday. Koizumi was speaking in response to a proposal from former Defense Ministry

Zurich, Sept. 3 (Jiji Press)–A late Japanese researcher won this year’s Ig Nobel Prize in medicine on Thursday for an aerodynamic study of how to blow one’s nose properly. It is the 20th straight year for a Japanese researcher to receive an

Tokyo, Sept. 4 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Justice Minister Hiroshi Hiraguchi said Friday that he will ask an advisory panel to consider a law revision barring the use of evidence submitted in civil trials for purposes not directly related to court proceedings. Hiraguchi told

Tokyo, Sept. 4 (Jiji Press)–General-account budget requests from Japanese government ministries and agencies for fiscal 2027 totaled a record 143,065.6 billion yen, the Finance Ministry said Friday. The total requested amount for the year starting next April rose by 16.8 pct from

Susono, Shizuoka Pref., Sept. 4 (Jiji Press)–Woven by Toyota Inc., a Japanese company that runs a demonstration area for next-generation mobility technologies, signed a partnership agreement with the Shizuoka prefectural government on Thursday. The Toyota Motor Corp. unit that operates the Woven

Tokyo, Sept. 4 (Jiji Press)–The Japan Sport Association has said that it will establish a national esports competition, spinning off a tournament held so far as a cultural program of the Japan Games national sports event. The new competition will be held

Tokyo, Sept. 4 (Jiji Press)–Spending by households in Japan declined 3.6 pct in July from a year before in inflation-adjusted real terms as they spent less on electricity and gas as well as food, the internal affairs ministry said Friday. Consumption expenditures

Tokyo, Sept. 4 (Jiji Press)–General-account budget requests from Japanese government ministries and agencies for fiscal 2027 totaled a record 143,065.6 billion yen, the Finance Ministry said Friday. The total requested amount for the year starting next April rose by 16.8 pct from

Tokyo, Sept. 4 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko will visit Norway for three days from Tuesday to attend a funeral for the late King Harald V, according to a plan approved by the Japanese government at a cabinet

Hiroshima, Sept. 4 (Jiji Press)–Okunoshima, an island in the Seto Inland Sea in western Japan now famous as “Rabbit Island” for its estimated 500 to 600 wild rabbits, once hosted a poison gas production facility operated by the former Imperial Japanese Army.