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Tokyo, Aug. 27 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government Thursday announced a package of measures to support recovery from the recent earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture, such as a travel discount program to revitalize tourism in the Kyushu southwestern region including Kumamoto. The package was

Tokyo, Aug. 27 (Jiji Press)–More than 180 toy makers are exhibiting new products and flagship items, including those targeting so-called kidults, or adults who enjoy playing with toys, and inbound tourists, as an annual Japanese toy show kicked off in Tokyo on

Uki, Kumamoto Pref., Aug. 27 (Jiji Press)–The earthquake-hit municipal library in the southwestern Japan city of Uki, Kumamoto Prefecture, is moving step by step toward reopening after closing late last month. A mobile library, part of Uki City Library, has already resumed

Tokyo, Aug. 27 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Cabinet Secretariat plans to seek 65.2 billion yen in its fiscal 2027 budget request for the planned disaster management agency, informed sources told Jiji Press Thursday. The planned budget request is nearly triple the 21.8 billion yen

Tokyo, Aug. 27 (Jiji Press)–The Japan Meteorological Agency temporarily issued Level 5 heavy rain emergency warnings to some municipalities in the central prefectures of Toyama and Ishikawa on Thursday. The Noto Peninsula area in central Japan started to have heavy rain early

Tokyo, Aug. 27 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government highlighted the need to closely monitor the impact of recent natural disasters in a monthly report released on Thursday, while keeping its basic economic assessment unchanged. “The Japanese economy is recovering at a moderate pace,

Tokyo, Aug. 27 (Jiji Press)–Major Japanese memory chip maker Kioxia Holdings Corp. will build a new production facility within the premises of its plant in the city of Kitakami in the northeastern prefecture of Iwate, it was learned Thursday. The company is

Nagoya, Aug. 27 (Jiji Press)–Chubu Electric Power Co. has improperly billed costs for decommissioning the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, for fiscal 2024, company officials said Thursday. The related costs

Tokyo, Aug. 27 (Jiji Press)–Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, known for her polka-dot motifs and pumpkin sculptures, died of multiple organ failure at a Tokyo hospital on Aug. 14, it was learned Thursday. She was 97. Born in 1929 in Matsumoto, Nagano

(Adnkronos) – The toll from the car hitting pedestrians in Caen, northern France, has risen to two dead and about ten injured. Police sources report that a 26-year-old Russian citizen was arrested, who allegedly committed the act voluntarily after a brawl. Therefore,