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Tokyo, Jan. 7 (Jiji Press)–The market for so-called “social gifts,” which allow people to send presents through social media or email, is expanding rapidly in Japan, with its size estimated at 600 billion yen this year, 3.8 times larger than six years

Nagoya, Jan. 7 (Jiji Press)–Shunsuke Niwa, president of Central Japan Railway Co., or JR Tokai, has stressed that the company will continue promoting the construction of the Chuo Shinkansen high-speed magnetic levitation train line. “We will steadily work (on the construction),” he

(Adnkronos) – Italy has urged Switzerland to safeguard journalists covering investigations into the deadly fire at a bar in the upscale ski resort of Crans-Montanta, which killed 40 people, including six Italian teenagers and injured over 100 people on New Year’s Eve. 

Tokyo, Jan. 7 (Jiji Press)–The average retail price of regular gasoline in Japan as of Monday fell 2.3 yen from a week before to 155.7 yen per liter, down for the eighth straight week, the industry ministry said Wednesday. The average price

Tokyo, Jan. 7 (Jiji Press)–Shinsuke Yamanaka, chief of Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority, said Wednesday that he expects the NRA’s screening of Chubu Electric Power Co.’s Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, for a possible restart will be scrapped. “I

(Adnkronos) – Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, one of Europe’s largest, has announced the cancellation of at least 800 flights due to snow and wind. More than a thousand people spent the night at Schiphol, airport authorities reported, adding that they had set up

(Adnkronos) – US President Donald Trump announced that Venezuela’s interim authorities will deliver between 30 and 50 million barrels of authorized and “high-quality” oil to the United States, which will be sold at market price and whose proceeds will be under his

(Adnkronos) – The summit of the Coalition of the Willing in Paris is a fundamental step for the creation of the multinational force that will be active in Ukraine after the end of the war with Russia. Europe will send soldiers to

(Adnkronos) – A white smoke between Ukraine and the United States for the peace plan. Or almost. The summit of the Coalition of the Willing in Paris allows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to obtain fundamental guarantees from the US in case of

Fukui, Jan. 7 (Jiji Press)–The Fukui prefectural government, in a report released Wednesday, confirmed former Governor Tatsuji Sugimoto’s sexual harassment against a female worker and other victims. “It is evident that Sugimoto’s words and actions in question were acts of sexual harassment,”