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Tokyo, Oct. 22 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s education ministry plans to establish a new graduate school program enabling working adults to obtain teaching licenses within one year, allowing them to retrain for teaching careers, it was learned Thursday. The program will provide participants with

Tokyo, Oct. 22 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday presented a compromise proposal to cut the number of proportional representation seats in the House of Representatives by 31. The new proposal was shown at a meeting among nine political parties

(Adnkronos) – The French President, Emmanuel Macron, returning from a long mission in the Gulf, has convened a security council today at the Élysée to review the violence recorded during the October 17 demonstrations and to strengthen security measures in view of

(Adnkronos) – The US State Department has ordered some diplomats and family members of US government employees to leave Saudi Arabia, as the Gulf kingdom is being targeted by a series of almost daily attacks, with at least three people killed last

Tokyo, Oct. 22 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo District Court on Thursday sentenced a former University of Tokyo professor to two years in prison, suspended for three years, and fined him about 1.83 million yen for accepting bribes over a joint research project at the

(Adnkronos) – During the night, 630 drones headed towards the Moscow region. This was written on the ‘Max’ platform by the mayor of the Russian capital, Sergei Sobyanin, adding that most of them were shot down by air defense forces while they

Tokyo, Oct. 22 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s three megabank lenders will not take part in syndicated lending for a semiconductor plant construction project selected for the third batch of Japanese investments in the United States under a bilateral tariff agreement, Jiji Press learned Thursday.

Tokyo, Oct. 22 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Canon Inc. plans to increase semiconductor lithography equipment production in 2027 by up to twofold from this year, it has been learned. The move comes as chipmakers around the world are increasing investment for higher production on

Tokyo, Oct. 22 (Jiji Press)–Large and powerful Typhoon Champi is expected to approach the Sakishima Islands in Okinawa Prefecture, southernwestern Japan, on Friday, likely passing between Okinawa and Taiwan in the afternoon. The Japan Meteorological Agency is calling on people to be

Tokyo, Oct. 22 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s internal affairs ministry on Thursday urged the education ministry, health ministry and Children and Families Agency to take measures to support health checkups for children who refuse to go to school. A survey released by the internal