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Hiroshima, Nov. 17 (Jiji Press)–One set of the unclaimed remains placed in the vault under the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, will undergo DNA profiling to identify the individual, city government officials said Monday.

Fukushima, Nov. 17 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Monday that it has completed the fifth round of fiscal 2025 treated water releases from its disaster-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan. According to measurements by TEPCO

Tokyo, Nov. 17 (Jiji Press)–A total of 196 people were injured or killed in wild bear attacks across Japan between April and October, the Environment Ministry said Monday. The figure for the first seven months of fiscal 2025, including 12 fatalities, is

Tokyo, Nov. 17 (Jiji Press)–Former Japanese lawmaker Yuki Baba, 33, was elected mayor of the city of Fukushima on Sunday, becoming the youngest leader of a prefectural capital. The independent, who previously served in the House of Representatives, defeated the incumbent and

Tokyo, Nov. 17 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government said Monday that it has lodged a protest with China through diplomatic channels regarding a recent intrusion of four Chinese coast guard ships into Japanese territorial waters off the Senkaku Islands in the southernmost Japan

Tokyo, Nov. 17 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s economy in July-September shrank at an annualized rate of 1.8 pct from the previous quarter after price and seasonal adjustment, contracting for the first time in six quarters, the Cabinet Office said in a preliminary report Monday.

Tokyo, Nov. 17 (Jiji Press)–An expert panel of Japan’s welfare ministry on Monday broadly approved a draft revision to the reduction rate for basic welfare payments, following a Supreme Court ruling that found the government’s cuts to welfare benefits unlawful. The panel

Tokyo, Nov. 17 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Princess Aiko left Tokyo International Airport at Haneda on Monday for her visit to Laos to mark 70 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Responding to the Lao government’s invitation, the only child of Emperor

Fukui, Nov. 17 (Jiji Press)–A cargo ship carrying plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel produced in France arrived at Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Takahama nuclear power plant in the central Japan prefecture of Fukui, informed sources told Jiji Press Monday. This marks

Tokyo, Nov. 17 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s convenience store sector is undergoing a major shift, as store expansion slows amid limited room for rapid expansion at home and inbound tourism increasingly drives consumption. Lawson Inc. aims to lift earnings by boosting store productivity through