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Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s current account surplus grew 15.5 pct in October from a year before to 2,833.5 billion yen thanks mainly to increased exports and higher dividend income, the Finance Ministry said Monday. The country posted a surplus in the

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s inflation-adjusted real wage index dropped 0.7 pct year on year in October, falling for the 10th straight month as increases in prices of goods such as food continued to outpace wage growth, labor ministry data showed Monday.

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s gross domestic product in July-September grew an annualized 2.3 pct from the previous quarter after price and seasonal adjustment, the Cabinet Office said in a revised report Monday. The decline was steeper than the 1.8 pct drop

Tokyo, Dec. 8 (Jiji Press)–Housing loans with repayment periods of up to 50 years, far longer than the standard 35-year term for long-term mortgages, are gaining popularity in Japan particularly among people in their 20s. With housing prices continuing to soar, as

Tokyo, Dec. 7 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Defense Ministry said Sunday that Chinese military aircraft intermittently locked its radar onto Air Self-Defense Force fighter jets twice over the high seas of the western Pacific southeast of the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa on Saturday

Tokyo, Dec. 7 (Jiji Press)–The focus of the upcoming parliamentary deliberations on a supplementary budget bill proposed by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration will be on the moves of three opposition parties–the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, the Democratic Party for the

Wajima, Ishikawa Pref., Dec. 7 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Sunday visited the Noto Peninsula in the central prefecture of Ishikawa, which was severely damaged by last year’s powerful earthquake and heavy rains. Inspecting the disaster-stricken areas for the first

Tokyo, Dec. 7 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and his Australian counterpart, Richard Marles, agreed on Sunday to deepen security cooperation, mainly in response to an incident involving Chinese military aircraft targeting Japanese Air Self-Defense Force fighter jets. At their meeting

Stockholm, Dec. 6 (Jiji Press)–Shimon Sakaguchi, distinguished honorary professor at the University of Osaka, who won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, underscored the significance of medical science at a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden on Saturday.

Tokyo, Dec. 7 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Defense Ministry said Sunday that Chinese military aircraft intermittently locked its radar onto Air Self-Defense Force fighter jets twice over the high seas of the western Pacific southeast of the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa on Saturday