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Tokyo, Dec. 12 (Jiji Press)–The Bank of Japan is likely to raise its policy interest rate to around 0.75 pct from around 0.5 pct at present at its next monetary policy meeting scheduled next week, Jiji Press learned Friday. It will be

Kyoto, Dec. 12 (Jiji Press)–“Kuma,” meaning bear, was picked Friday as the kanji character of the year in Japan, amid a series of wild bear attacks across the country. It was the first time that kuma has been selected as the kanji

Osaka, Dec. 12 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Fair Trade Commission on Friday urged Osaka-based logistics business Senko Co. to prevent any recurrence of its practices that allegedly violated the subcontract law. The FTC found that the core unit of Senko Group Holdings Co. requested

(Adnkronos) – Foreign minister Antonio Tajani, who leads Italy’s conservative Forza Italia party, is holding talks in Heidelberg, Germany, on Friday with Chancellor Friedrich Merz and European People’s Party president Manfred Weber on ways to boost European innovation.  The talks are taking

Tokyo, Dec. 12 (Jiji Press)–The Bank of Japan is set to raise its policy interest rate from the current 0.5 pct to 0.75 pct at the next monetary policy meeting, Jiji Press learned Friday. It will be the BOJ’s first rate hike

Tokyo, Dec. 12 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Akizuki destroyer conducted a joint exercise with the U.S. Navy’s aircraft carrier George Washington and its Dewey destroyer in the Pacific off the southern coast of Japan’s Kanto region this week, the MSDF

Tokyo, Dec. 12 (Jiji Press)–Almost half of Japanese nationals feel familiar with loneliness and isolation, a government survey showed Friday. According to the Cabinet Office’s first public opinion survey on the issue, 48.4 pct of respondents answered they feel “familiar” or “rather

(Adnkronos) – Webuild achieves an “A” rating, the highest assigned by CDP’s (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project) Climate Change 2025 program, entering the prestigious “A-List” which includes only 4% of the over 24,800 companies evaluated by the program worldwide. The result confirms the

Tokyo, Dec. 12 (Jiji Press)–Japan issued tsunami advisories for the Pacific coast of Hokkaido and Aomori, Iwate and Miyagi prefectures from northern to northeastern Japan after another offshore earthquake shook the regions late Friday morning. All the advisories were lifted at 2:05

Washington, Dec. 11 (Jiji Press)–The United States will launch a coalition with Japan and other countries to strengthen supply chains for critical minerals and artificial intelligence, the State Department said Thursday. The Pax Silica partnership is a “U.S.-led strategic initiative to build