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Tokyo, March 5 (Jiji Press)–Democratic Party for the People chief Yuichiro Tamaki said Thursday that the opposition party will now join the National Council on Social Security, which is considering the details of a proposed zero consumption tax rate for food products.

Tokyo, March 5 (Jiji Press)–An umbrella organization for labor unions in the automotive, electronics and three other industries in Japan said that as of Monday, member unions were demanding an average monthly pay-scale increase of 14,638 yen per month in this year’s

Jakarta, March 5 (Jiji Press)–Indonesian immigration authorities arrested 13 Japanese nationals after uncovering a fraud base in Bogor in West Java, near Jakarta. The arrests announced on Wednesday mark the first such case involving Japanese citizens in Indonesia, according to the Japanese

Tokyo, March 5 (Jiji Press)–Consumer sentiment in Japan improved to the highest level in about seven years in February as rice and fresh vegetable prices paused their recent surge, a survey released by the Cabinet Office on Wednesday showed. The impact of

Tokyo, March 5 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s annualized real gross domestic product growth for last year’s October-December period is forecast to be revised up to 1.2 pct, according to estimates by 10 private think tanks. The figure, which represents the average among the research

Tokyo, March 5 (Jiji Press)–Kohei Otsuka, a former member of Japan’s House of Councillors, died of heart failure on Monday. He was 66. A native of the central city of Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Otsuka got a job at the Bank of Japan

(A typo in the fifth paragraph has been corrected.) Kairos No. 3 Rocket Launch Unsuccessful Kushimoto, Wakayama Pref., March 5 (Jiji Press)–The launch of Japanese startup Space One Co.’s Kairos No. 3 small rocket ended in failure on Thursday morning, following the

Tokyo, March 5 (Jiji Press)–A Japanese research team has uncovered a part of the mechanism by which a substance found in Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co.’s supplements containing “beni koji,” or red fermented rice, triggered kidney damage, it was learned Thursday. Although it had

Tokyo, March 5 (Jiji Press)–Automated voice guidance in devices such as water heaters and car navigation systems has become an indispensable part of daily life in Japan, yet few people may have stopped to consider why such services almost always use “female”

Tokyo, March 5 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock average jumped over 2,300 points Thursday morning, rallying from a 4,600-point loss in its three-day slump through Wednesday. The key index reached 56,619.98 at 9:40 a.m., advancing 2,374.44 points, or 4.38 pct, from Wednesday’s