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Tokyo, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)–Bank of Japan policymaker Naoki Tamura said Friday that the central bank’s 2 pct inflation target could be deemed to have been achieved as early as this spring. In a speech in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo,

Tokyo, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)–Cavity rates for kindergarten, elementary, junior high and high school students in Japan all rewrote record lows, an education ministry survey for fiscal 2025 showed Friday. According to the survey for the year ending next month, 19.44 pct

Tokyo, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese opposition Centrist Reform Alliance on Friday elected Junya Ogawa, former secretary-general of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, as its new leader. Ogawa, 54, gained 27 of the votes cast by the new party’s 49 House

Tokyo, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)–Nearly 60 pct of companies in Japan do not want the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates over the next year, a poll by Tokyo Shoko Research Ltd. showed Friday. The results indicated that many companies are

Tokyo, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)–Dentsu Group Inc. said Friday that it logged a record consolidated net loss of 327.6 billion yen for the year through December 2025 due chiefly to an impairment loss of 310.1 billion yen from sluggish overseas operations. The

Tokyo, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party plans to recommend former Justice Minister Eisuke Mori as speaker of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, the country’s parliament, senior LDP officials said Friday. Mori, a 77-year-old LDP

Tokyo, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department sent papers on two U.S. Marines to public prosecutors on Friday, alleging that they broke into restaurants in the Japanese capital and stole cash, Jiji Press has learned. The Marines, aged 20 and 26

Fukuoka, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)–Japan has seized a Chinese fishing vessel and arrested its 47-year-old Chinese captain after the boat allegedly tried to flee an inspection in the Japanese exclusive economic zone off an island in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan. It was

Tokyo, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government will come up with an outline of a consumption tax cut and a refundable tax credit by June, Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said Friday. The administration of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to set up

Tokyo, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)–An advisory panel to Japan’s health minister on Friday recommended raising medical fees under the country’s health insurance system to reflect rising prices and support wage increases for medical workers. According to the recommendations by the Central Social