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Tokyo, Dec. 26 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government adopted at a cabinet meeting Friday a draft fiscal 2026 budget featuring record-high general-account spending of 122,309.2 billion yen. The expenditures, larger than the 115,197.8 billion yen under the fiscal 2025 initial budget, will hit

Tokyo, Dec. 26 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government and ruling coalition plan to submit a bill to next year’s ordinary session of parliament that would give legal force to the use of maiden names in daily life by people who have changed surnames

Tokyo, Dec. 26 (Jiji Press)–Buichiro Kuroda, new chief of Japan’s Imperial Household Agency, has pledged to carry out his duties to the best of his ability. “This is an extremely responsible job, so I am ready to make maximum efforts,” Kuroda, 65,

Tokyo, Dec. 26 (Jiji Press)–Israeli Ambassador to Japan Gilad Cohen has expressed hope that Japan would provide peace education for future generations in Gaza to prevent attacks on Israel. During an interview with Jiji Press in Tokyo on Thursday, Cohen claimed that

Tokyo, Dec. 25 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese Electrical Electronic and Information Union, which consists of labor unions at electronics makers, plans to set its unified pay scale hike demand at 18,000 yen or more per month for next year’s “shunto” spring wage negotiations,

Tokyo, Dec. 25 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo police searched locations linked to a luxury sauna facility operator on Thursday on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in the deaths of two customers earlier this month. At around 3:10 p.m., the Metropolitan Police Department began a

Otsu, Shiga Pref., Dec. 25 (Jiji Press)–Otsu District Court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by residents of Osaka and Shiga prefectures to shut down three Kansai Electric Power Co. nuclear plants along Wakasa Bay in Fukui Prefecture, central Japan. The court

Tokyo, Dec. 25 (Jiji Press)–A Japanese Justice Ministry panel has drafted an outline of a planned bill to revise the automobile driving punishment law, including an expansion of the scope of dangerous driving, it was learned Thursday. The ministry plans to submit

Tokyo, Dec. 25 (Jiji Press)–The economic benefits of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, western Japan, are estimated to have reached around 3.6 trillion yen, exceeding the 2024 forecast of 2.9 trillion yen, the industry ministry said Thursday. The latest estimate was

Tokyo, Dec. 25 (Jiji Press)–Global vehicle production at eight major Japanese automakers fell 6.4 pct from a year earlier to 1.98 million units in November, their data showed Thursday. Honda Motor Co. saw its global production plummet 33.7 pct due to a