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Tokyo, May 25 (Jiji Press)–Japanese miscellaneous goods retailer Hands Inc. said Monday that it will close down the Shibuya Store in Tokyo in November, ending the outlet’s 48-year history as one of the landmarks in the Shibuya district, an entertainment and shopping

Tokyo, May 25 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Monday that the government will submit a draft fiscal 2026 supplementary budget to cope with high inflation reflecting Middle East tensions to the Diet, or parliament, next week. Spending under the extra

Tokyo, May 25 (Jiji Press)– Seven & i Holdings Co. Honorary Adviser Toshifumi Suzuki, who pioneered Japanese convenience stores known as “konbini,” died of heart failure on May 18. He was 93. A native of Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, Suzuki graduated from

Tokyo, May 25 (Jiji Press)–Twenty-six people reported throat pain and other symptoms after a pungent odor spread in the Ginza Six shopping complex in Tokyo’s Chuo Ward on Monday, according to the Metropolitan Police Department and the Tokyo Fire Department. Of them,

(Adnkronos) – Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Tehran’s chief negotiator with the United States, has been re-elected Parliament Speaker for the seventh consecutive year, the Fars agency reports.    

Tokyo, May 25 (Jiji Press)–Seina Imamura has become the first-ever female Japan Racing Association jockey to win a Grade 1 race of the prestigious national horse race organization. Ridden by 22-year-old Imamura, fifth-favorite Juryoku Pierrot won Sunday’s Yushun Hinba, known as the

Hiroshima, May 25 (Jiji Press)–The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, which documents the world’s first atomic bombing in August 1945, will go reservation-only during the “bon” holiday period from Aug. 8 to 16, it was learned Monday. During the period, the museum will

Tokyo, May 25 (Jiji Press)–Sales at department stores in Japan in April increased 5.2 pct from a year before on a same-store basis, up for the fourth straight month, thanks to a large increase in spending by foreign visitors, industry data showed

(A typo in the fifth paragraph has been corrected.) Remains of 193 Japanese War Dead Added to National Cemetery Tokyo, May 25 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s welfare ministry held a ceremony on Monday to add the remains of 193 Japanese war dead to a

Asahikawa, Hokkaido, May 25 (Jiji Press)–A woman suspected of killing a then 17-year-old high school girl, who died in 2024 after falling from a suspension bridge in the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido, pleaded not guilty to murder in the first hearing