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Tokyo, May 29 (Jiji Press)–Japanese authorities spent 11,734.9 billion yen in foreign exchange market interventions from April 28 to Wednesday, with the amount hitting a record high on a monthly basis, the Finance Ministry said Friday. The figure far exceeded 9,788.5 billion

Tokyo, May 29 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo District Court on Friday found one anesthesiologist guilty and another not guilty over the death of a 2-year-old boy at Tokyo Women’s Medical University Hospital in 2014. Presiding Judge Yasunobu Hosoya sentenced Toru Kotani, 66, to a

Tokyo, May 29 (Jiji Press)–Women accounted for a record 35.7 pct of those who passed Japan’s career-track national public servant examination for the spring of fiscal 2026, the National Personnel Authority said Friday. A total of 2,021 applicants passed the exam to

(Adnkronos) – The overnight Russian drone strike on a residential building in Nato and European Union member Romania’s eastern city of Galati is a threat to European security, Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni stated on Friday, deploring the “extremely serious act”  

Tokyo, May 29 (Jiji Press)–The share of Japanese households owning smartphones outnumbered that of television-owning households for the first time last year, the communications ministry said Friday. A survey by the ministry found that 91.8 pct of households owned smartphones in 2025,

Manila, May 29 (Jiji Press)–The Philippines is set to strengthen its oil stockpiling system in response to the energy crisis caused by the tense situation in the Middle East, with support from Japan, as agreed by the leaders of the two countries

Utsunomiya, Tochigi Pref., May 29 (Jiji Press)–Police on Friday placed on a public wanted list a 48-year-old man who allegedly orchestrated a fatal home-invasion robbery in the eastern Japan prefecture of Tochigi and fled the country after the crime. The Tochigi prefectural

(Adnkronos) – Itay has “strongly condemned” a Russian drone involved in an attack on Ukraine which hit an appartment block overight in Nato member Romania, in the eastern city of Galati, sparking a fire and injuring two people amid growing concern over

Tokyo, May 29 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako bid farewell to Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his wife at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Friday. Marcos and his wife, who visited Japan as state guests for four days

Tokyo, May 29 (Jiji Press)–Japanese stocks climbed in trading in Tokyo Friday on hopes for an extension of the U.S.-Iran ceasefire, driving the benchmark Nikkei 225 average to a new closing high above 66,000. The Nikkei ended at 66,329.50, up 1,636.38 points,