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Asheville, North Carolina, Sept. 1 (Jiji Press)–The Bank of Japan will discuss whether to raise interest rates at every meeting, including the next gathering on Sept. 17-18, Governor Kazuo Ueda said Tuesday. “We’ll fully discuss (a rate increase) at every policy meeting,

Kumamoto, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–While a shopping mall explosion and areas struggling with water outages following a massive earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture in late July have made major headlines, people in some quake-affected areas in the southwestern Japan prefecture are concerned about

Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Japan is fully responsible for the deterioration of relations between Tokyo and Moscow, Russia’s state-run Tass news agency reported. Putin reportedly said that Japan’s reaction to his visit to a disputed

New York, Sept. 1 (Jiji Press)–SB Energy Inc., an artificial intelligence infrastructure developer backed by Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp., has filed for an initial public offering on the U.S. Nasdaq market, the company said Tuesday. SB Energy did not disclose the offering

Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–The government of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi marked a major shift in Japan’s fiscal management strategy with its first Basic Policy on Economic and Fiscal Management and Reform, adopted in July. The government said it would tolerate a

Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock average briefly gave up more than 1,800 points Wednesday morning, as inflation concerns flared again following a fresh U.S. attack on Iran. At 9:41 a.m., the index of 225 major issues listed on the

Asheville, North Carolina, Sept. 1 (Jiji Press)–U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda that he supports actions by Japanese authorities to tackle the undervaluation of the yen, the Treasury Department said Tuesday. In talks with Ueda on

Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–As Japan has been slow to introduce a system that allows married couples to have different surnames, matchmaking events for people with the same surname have emerged as a hack for circumventing surname changes upon marriage under the

Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)–The breakup of the Centrist Reform Alliance has become all but certain as the seven-month-old Japanese opposition party failed to forge unity. The party was launched in January, ahead of the Feb. 8 general election for the House

(Adnkronos) – Homemade explosive devices have been found near a power plant in eastern Germany, close to the Polish border. Brandenburg police told AFP. “They did not explode, no one was injured, and we had no problems with electricity supply,” a police