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Yokohama, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)–With about half a year until the opening of the International Horticultural Expo 2027 in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, participating companies are accelerating the construction of signature facilities emphasizing resource circulation and coexistence with nature. With the theme

Tokyo, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)–So Kuramoto, who wrote scripts for many popular Japanese television dramas including the “Kita no Kuni kara” series, died of multiple organ failure on Sept. 18 at his home in Furano, Hokkaido, northern Japan. He was 91. Born

Tokyo, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)–Japan has exercised its right of reply at the U.N. General Assembly to rebut remarks by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Japan and Germany were on a path of militarization, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said Monday.

Tokyo, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s ocean freight transportation service fees soared 74.2 pct in August from a year before as the war in Iran pushed up crude oil and transportation costs, the Bank of Japan said Monday. The price index for the

Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Pref., Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)–Residents in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, are worried about well water problems after a major earthquake hit the southwestern Japan prefecture in July. While water outages have been resolved, many wells are drying up or producing cloudy

Tokyo, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)–Calls to speed up interest rate hikes were expressed at the Bank of Japan’s July 30-31 policy-setting meeting amid rising inflation risks, minutes showed on Monday. According to the minutes, a BOJ Policy Board member said that the

Tokyo, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)–About 30 pct of children in low-income households took part in no out-of-school activities such as lessons or trips over the past year, a survey showed on Monday. The survey by Chance for Children, a Tokyo-based public interest

Tokyo, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)–The Bank of Japan’s “tankan” quarterly survey for September, due out Thursday, is expected to show an improvement in business sentiment among major Japanese manufacturers, according to forecasts by private think tanks. Many think tanks, including Daiichi Life

Tokyo, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s parliament enacted a revised law in June aimed at preventing illegally obtained bank accounts from being used to launder criminal proceeds, including money from special fraud such as social media-based swindles. The revision to the law on

Kumamoto, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)–More than 1,500 people are still staying in evacuation centers two months after the July 28 earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, that killed 38 people including those who died from suspected indirect causes. Meanwhile, some progress has