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Tokyo, June 24 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo police arrested a career official of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on Wednesday for allegedly sending defamatory messages about a female acquaintance via online dating sites, investigative sources said. Masao Ito, the 53-year-old suspect from

Shizuoka, June 24 (Jiji Press)–Shizuoka Governor Yasutomo Suzuki plans to approve the construction of a local section of the planned Chuo Shinkansen high-speed magnetic levitation train line, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday. Suzuki plans to announce the approval at a

Tokyo, June 24 (Jiji Press)–The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party, each submitted proposals Wednesday on a revision of the government’s three key national security documents planned for this year. Both parties proposed increases in the

Tokyo, June 24 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government plans to allow the Imperial Family to adopt male, paternal-line descendants of former Imperial Family branches as an exception to Article 9 of the Imperial House Law, which bans the Emperor and other Imperial Family

Tokyo, June 24 (Jiji Press)–Many Bank of Japan policymakers cited the need for the central bank to continue increasing interest rates, at its latest policy meeting in which the first rate hike since last December was decided, according to a summary of

Tokyo, June 24 (Jiji Press)–Five major Japanese opposition parties reiterated their demands on Wednesday that parliament thoroughly discuss allegations that a secretary to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi had been involved in creating defamatory videos targeting rivals in elections. The opposition parties requested

Tokyo, June 24 (Jiji Press)–Substantive discussions started on a bill to criminalize the act of damaging the national flag, at Japan’s House of Representatives on Wednesday. The Cabinet Committee of the lower chamber of the Diet, the country’s parliament, heard an explanation

Nashville, Tennessee, June 23 (Jiji Press)–A 16-year-old Japanese girl living in Nashville, Tennessee, which hosts the training base of the Japanese men’s national soccer team for the ongoing FIFA World Cup, aspires to join the women’s national team, dubbed Nadeshiko Japan. “I

Tokyo, June 24 (Jiji Press)–Japan protested to China over Beijing’s gas-field drilling activity near the median line in the East China Sea, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said Wednesday. Kihara said at a press conference that Japan found a mobile drilling vessel

Tokyo, June 24 (Jiji Press)–Chinese authorities took two Japanese nationals into custody in May on suspicion of violating the country’s law for cracking down on the smuggling of banned items, Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said Wednesday. One of them was