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Otsu, Shiga Pref., June 19 (Jiji Press)–Japanese public prosecutors said Friday that they will not seek to prove guilt in a retrial of a man who received a life term for a 1984 robbery-murder in Shiga Prefecture and later died in prison,

Tokyo, June 19 (Jiji Press)–U.S. artificial intelligence developer OpenAI said Friday that it has begun a trial for displaying advertisements in its ChatGPT generative AI chatbot for users in Japan. The ads will appear on the free version and the Go plan,

Tokyo, June 19 (Jiji Press)–The Diet, Japan’s parliament, on Friday enacted a bill to revise the postal privatization and related laws, paving the way for subsidies to preserve the nationwide post office network. The House of Councillors, the upper chamber, adopted the

Tokyo, June 19 (Jiji Press)–The Diet, Japan’s parliament, on Friday ratified acquisition and cross-servicing agreements with the Philippines, the Netherlands and New Zealand. The ACSAs, which facilitate the reciprocal provision of fuel and munitions between the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the militaries

Tokyo, June 19 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, the country’s parliament, passed a bill to revise the law on national referendums on constitutional amendments by a majority vote at a plenary session on Friday. The bill

Tokyo, June 19 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government Friday decided to extend the deployment of Self-Defense Forces personnel to the headquarters of the U.N. Mission in South Sudan, or UNMISS, by one year until the end of June 2027. The deployment, conducted under

Tokyo, June 19 (Jiji Press)–A member of the Bank of Japan Policy Board backed the idea of raising interest rates every few months at their meeting in April, it was learned Friday. At the April 27-28 meeting, three of the nine members

Tokyo, June 19 (Jiji Press)–A fire burned part of an elementary school in a densely populated area of Tokyo on Friday, leaving 10 people, mainly children, injured. At Takinogawa Daisan Elementary School in Kita Ward, the fire started around 11 a.m. It

Tokyo, June 19 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s core consumer prices in May rose 1.4 pct from a year earlier, growing for the 57th consecutive month, the internal affairs ministry said Friday. The pace of increase in the core consumer price index, which excludes volatile

Amsterdam, June 18 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Emperor Naruhito visited Leiden University on Thursday during his state visit to the Netherlands, holding talks with students learning about Japan. The oldest university in the Netherlands, established in 1575, is the only one in the country