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Tokyo, Jan. 16 (Jiji Press)–Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp. said Friday it will join a shale gas project in the southern United States. It will invest about 5.2 billion dollars, or some 820 billion yen, to acquire all outstanding shares in Aethon

Tokyo, Jan. 16 (Jiji Press)–Prudential Life Insurance Co. said Friday that more than 100 of its present and former employees have scammed customers out of some 3.1 billion yen. The number of victims of fraudulent deals conducted by those current and former

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(Adnkronos) – The death of a man detained in a federal penitentiary facility in Texas, who died in early January, could be investigated as homicide: the medical examiner who examined him reportedly attributed the death as a preliminary cause to “asphyxia due

(Adnkronos) – Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to five years in prison for obstruction of justice and other charges related to the proclamation of martial law, which he announced in December 2024, after which he was impeached.

Tokyo, Jan. 16 (Jiji Press)–Chubu Electric Power Co. President Kingo Hayashi said Friday that he will resign as Japanese power industry group head over his company’s data manipulation linked to earthquake risks at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant. Hayashi, 65, made the

Tokyo, Jan. 16 (Jiji Press)–Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga plans not to run in the upcoming election for the House of Representatives, the all-important lower chamber of the country’s parliament, informed sources said Friday. The 77-year-old ruling Liberal Democratic Party member

Tokyo, Jan. 16 (Jiji Press)–The leaders of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Komeito, formerly a longtime ally of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said Friday that a new party they have created is called the Centrist Reform Alliance.

Washington, Jan. 15 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday agreed to boost the deterrence and response capabilities of the Japan-U.S. alliance. Their talks, held at the U.S. Defense Department in the suburbs of Washington,

Osaka, Jan. 16 (Jiji Press)–Osaka District Court on Friday dismissed a request from three death-row inmates for the state to ban executions by hanging. The three, whose death sentences have been finalized, claimed that executions by hanging are against an international treaty