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Tokyo, May 14 (Jiji Press)–A Japanese research group has said that it identified the scientific mechanism that explains why crows are black. The study by the team led by Okayama University professor Sakae Takeuchi shows that the “switch that produces black color”

Tokyo, May 14 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average continued rising to rewrite its record intraday high Thursday morning. The index of 225 selected issues listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s top-tier Prime section started the day’s session with a marginal

Tokyo, May 14 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Supreme Court has requested a related parliamentary commission to file a petition with the Judge Impeachment Court to seek the dismissal of a judge indicted for alleged habitual gambling through an online casino site. The behavior by

Tokyo, May 14 (Jiji Press)–Dassai Inc., a Japanese sake brewer with international acclaim, opened a pop-up store featuring the collaboration between artworks by Japanese artists and sake at Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd.’s flagship Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi department store in Tokyo on Wednesday. The

Tokyo, May 14 (Jiji Press)–Former Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda has indicated that the effects of foreign exchange market interventions will not last long. At an event held in Tokyo on Wednesday, Kuroda said that the BOJ’s recent yen-buying, dollar-selling interventions

Tokyo, May 14 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average continued rising to rewrite its record intraday high in early trading Thursday. The index of 225 selected issues listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s top-tier Prime section started the day’s session with

Tokyo, May 14 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese ruling Liberal Democratic Party is poised to study a further hike in the country’s security-related spending by taking account of initiatives of other nations and regional alliances, including a plan by NATO to increase such outlays

(Adnkronos) – Italy on Wednesday urged Israel’s Knesset to revoke a law it passed in March which made hanging the standard punishment for Palestinians convicted in military courts of lethal terrorist attacks – legislation that has drawn international criticism and prompted the

Tokyo, May 13 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Wednesday approved a government-drafted bill to basically bar prosecutors from appealing court orders granting retrials. The LDP gave the approval at a joint meeting of its Judicial Affairs Division and Research Commission

(Adnkronos) – The first analyses on board the cruise ship anchored in Bordeaux have excluded the presence of norovirus, a category of infectious agents that cause gastroenteritis in humans, but supplementary analyses, whose results are expected today, are underway at the infectious