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Osaka, Sept. 16 (Jiji Press)–A series of incidents involving students spraying pepper spray at schools occurred in the western Japan prefecture of Osaka on Wednesday. According to the prefectural police and other sources, a total of 48 people at a high school

Tokyo, Sept. 16 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a 27-year-old woman who performs under the name Rino Yamato and has appeared in a YouTube audition program, along with her boyfriend, on suspicion of cocaine possession, investigative sources said Wednesday. The

Tokyo, Sept. 16 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Ambassador to Russia Akira Muto met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko in Moscow on Wednesday to discuss bilateral relations, including Russia’s effective control over the four islands that Japan calls the Northern Territories. According to

Tokyo, Sept. 16 (Jiji Press)–Patients with rare diseases and under prolonged treatment will be exempt from a new Japanese system that imposes additional out-of-pocket payments for prescription drugs that are similar to over-the-counter medicines, the health ministry indicated Wednesday. On the day,

Tokyo, Sept. 16 (Jiji Press)–Shoko Kawata, the 36-year-old mayor of the city of Yawata in Kyoto Prefecture, who is believed to be the first sitting female local government chief in Japan to take maternity leave, gave birth to her first child, a

Beijing, Sept. 16 (Jiji Press)–Fifty relatives of former Chinese wartime laborers raised a lawsuit against six Japanese companies in China on Wednesday, seeking about 8.5 million yen per person in damages. The lawsuit, filed with a high court in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province,

Tokyo, Sept. 16 (Jiji Press)–Kansai Electric Power Co. and Tohoku Electric Power Co. have expressed an intention to use an interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday. The facility

Tokyo, Sept. 16 (Jiji Press)–A new Japanese political party to be formed by some departing members of the opposition Centrist Reform Alliance is set to be named “Minshu Kaikaku no Kai,” which roughly means “association for democratic reform,” CRA leader Junya Ogawa

Tokyo, Sept. 16 (Jiji Press)–A Japanese government panel began discussions Wednesday to revise the money lending business law to make it easier for foreign financial institutions to meet financing needs that cannot be met solely by Japanese banks. The Financial System Council,

Tokyo, Sept. 16 (Jiji Press)–The estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan in August fell 9.6 pct from a year earlier to 3,098,900, down for the first time in two months, the Japan National Tourism Organization said Wednesday. The decrease appears to