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Tokyo, July 25 (Jiji Press)–Tadahito Iguchi, a former manager of the Chiba Lotte Marines, a Japanese professional baseball team, has been appointed the new manager of the Japanese national baseball team, nicknamed Samurai Japan, the country’s Nippon Professional Baseball Organization said Saturday.

Tokyo, July 25 (Jiji Press)–Temperatures in Japan reached 40 degrees Celsius or higher for the fifth consecutive day on Saturday, the longest such streak in the country, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. Under the influence of a Pacific high-pressure system, all

New Delhi, July 25 (Jiji Press)–A send-off event was held at the Japanese Embassy in New Delhi for 22 assistant language teachers and others selected to be dispatched from India to Japan under the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program this year. This

Sagamihara, Kanagawa Pref., July 25 (Jiji Press)–A memorial ceremony was held Saturday to remember the 19 victims of the 2016 mass stabbing at a care home for people with disabilities in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, a day before the 10th

Tokyo, July 25 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Saturday reiterated that enough crude oil supplies have been secured in the country for the time being. In response to a renewed deterioration in the situation in the Middle East, the prime

Tokyo, July 25 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Princess Akiko of Mikasa will make an unofficial visit to Bhutan from Aug. 7 to 14, the Imperial Household Agency has said. According to the announcement on Friday, the princess will attend a commemorative tea ceremony hosted

Tokyo, July 25 (Jiji Press)–Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of the opposition Democratic Party for the People, on Friday strongly criticized Hirofumi Yoshimura, leader of the Japan Innovation Party, the country’s junior ruling party, for indicating his intention to hold a referendum on the

Tokyo, July 24 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Defense Ministry said Friday that an IL-20 reconnaissance aircraft of the Russian military intruded into Japanese territorial airspace over northwestern Pacific islands controlled by Moscow and claimed by Tokyo the same day. A fighter of the Japanese

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s ambassador to Morocco, Pasquale Salzano and the Italian Consul-General in Casablanca met the widow of 42-year-old Abderrahim Fakir, a Moroccan small business owner who died while police restrained him on Sunday during a “psychiatric episode” in the northern city

Tokyo, July 24 (Jiji Press)–The Diet, Japan’s parliament, enacted Friday night a bill to create a secondary capital of the country, after a last-minute showdown between the ruling and opposition camps a day before the end of the extended current Diet session.