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Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Japanese ruling and opposition parties have decided to set up shortly a suprapartisan group for the abolition of nuclear weapons at the request of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo. On Thursday,

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–The yield on the benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond issue, Japan’s key long-term interest rate, briefly rose to a 17-year high of 1.700 pct in interdealer trading on Friday. The yield on the 380th JGB issue hit the

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–The average price of rice sold at about 1,000 supermarkets across Japan in the week through Sunday fell 6 yen from the previous week to 4,205 yen per 5 kilograms, agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Friday. The average

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Sanae Takaichi, the new leader of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, visited the prime minister’s office in Tokyo Friday for her first talks with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba since her election as LDP president on Saturday. The meeting

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Beer and quasi-beer sales at four major Japanese brewers in September shrank 2 pct from a year earlier in terms of volume, down for the sixth straight month, an estimate by an industry official showed Friday. The estimate

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Japan will send two Ground Self-Defense Force instructors to a mine removal training program in Lithuania as part of Tokyo’s assistance to the Ukrainian military, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Friday. From Nov. 3 to Dec. 5, the

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s producer prices in September increased 2.7 pct from a year earlier, reflecting continued price hikes in food and beverage items including rice, Bank of Japan data showed Friday. The producer price index, which measures the cost of

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s calorie-based food self-sufficiency rate stood at 38 pct for fiscal 2024, unchanged for the fourth year in a row, the agriculture ministry said Friday. In the reporting year that ended in March, per-capita consumption of rice, which

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–The number of foreign residents in Japan as of the end of June rose 5.0 pct from the end of 2024 to a record high of 3,956,619, Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki said Friday. Foreign residents accounted for 3.21

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–More than half of needy pregnant women and new mothers in Japan said that they have no savings, a survey by Save the Children Japan, a nonprofit organization, showed on Friday. The survey was conducted in April and