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Beijing, Dec. 15 (Jiji Press)–The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday announced sanctions against Shigeru Iwasaki, a former chief of the Japanese Self Defense Force’s Joint Staff who currently serves as a political adviser to the executive branch of Taiwan’s government. The sanctions,

Tokyo, Dec. 15 (Jiji Press)–Business sentiment among large manufacturers in Japan improved for the third straight quarter, apparently because the impacts from the high tariff policy of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration proved to be limited, the Bank of Japan’s “tankan” survey

Fukuoka, Dec. 15 (Jiji Press)–A 30-year-old man was arrested Monday on suspicion of attempted murder in an incident in which a man and a woman were attacked near the Mizuho PayPay Dome stadium in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka. The Fukuoka

Tokyo, Dec. 15 (Jiji Press)–The only two giant pandas remaining in Japan will be returned to China in late January, it was learned Monday. Xiao Xiao, male, and Lei Lei, female, are twins born at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo in 2021. But they

Tokyo, Dec. 15 (Jiji Press)–Rocket Lab Corp. of the United States successfully launched a technology demonstration satellite for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on Sunday, according to JAXA. The rapid innovative payload demonstration satellite-4, or RAISE-4, was launched aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron

Tokyo, Dec. 15 (Jiji Press)–Business sentiment among large manufacturers in Japan improved for the third straight quarter, the Bank of Japan’s “tankan” survey for December showed Monday. The headline diffusion index for large manufacturers’ current business conditions rose to plus 15 from

Tokyo, Dec. 15 (Jiji Press)–Data from Japan’s next-generation electronic toll collection system, known as ETC 2.0, are coming into broader use across the country. Unlike the conventional ETC system, which is limited to automatic toll payments, ETC 2.0 records and visualizes detailed

Ito, Shizuoka Pref., Dec. 14 (Jiji Press)–Sunday’s mayoral election in the city of Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, held due to the ouster of former Mayor Maki Takubo resulted in the first-time election of former city council member Kazuya Sugimoto, with Takubo’s

Tokyo, Dec. 14 (Jiji Press)–The Tsukiji Outer Market in Tokyo’s Chuo Ward, a popular tourist spot crowded with food shoppers and inbound visitors, has issued an unusual request this month asking tour operators to refrain from guiding tourists there toward the end

Fukuoka, Dec. 14 (Jiji Press)–A woman in her 20s and a man in his 40s were stabbed with a knife-like object at a commercial facility in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka on Sunday afternoon, the Fukuoka prefectural police said. They are