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Osaka, Aug. 19 (Jiji Press)–Police arrested a former manager at Takenaka Corp. on Wednesday for suspected breach of trust involving a construction project for the Grand Ring, a symbol of last year’s World Exposition in Osaka, a city in western Japan. The

Tokyo, Aug. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japanese actor Keiko Kishi, known for her role in the hit film “Kimi no Na wa” (What’s Your Name?), died of old age on Aug. 7. She was 93. Born in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Kishi was one

Akita, Aug. 19 (Jiji Press)–Shihab Alfaheem, the United Arab Emirates’ ambassador to Japan, visited Akita Prefecture on Wednesday for talks with local officials on a plan to build a large data center for artificial intelligence in the northeastern Japan prefecture. The ambassador

Tokyo, Aug. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Weathernews Inc. will provide localized weather forecasts to about 40,000 people from the organizing committee, teams and others at the upcoming Asian Games in the central Japan prefecture of Aichi, Jiji Press has learned. The company will

Tokyo, Aug. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s seasonally adjusted core machinery orders in June rose 9.7 pct from the previous month, the Cabinet Office said Wednesday. The Cabinet Office maintained its basic view that machinery orders are showing signs of picking up. The private-sector

Tokyo, Aug. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways have announced their winter timetables, in which the competing companies coordinated their flight schedules on a domestic route for the first time. The timetables from late October, released Tuesday, show that the

Tokyo, Aug. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi has expressed continued support for Yemen’s interim government during a meeting with Rashad Al-Alimi, head of the government, in Saudi Arabia. At the meeting in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Tuesday afternoon

Washington, Aug. 18 (Jiji Press)–A U.S. appeals court has canceled a permit for a project to build a deepwater port, part of a 550-billion-dollar investment agreement between Japan and the United States, it was learned Tuesday. In February 2025, the U.S. Department

Washington/Brussels, Aug. 18 (Jiji Press)–The U.S. government on Tuesday announced sanctions against International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane of Japan, decrying The Hague-based court’s “assault on state sovereignty.” The ICC has been faced with increased pressure from the administration of U.S. President

Tokyo, Aug. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s communications ministry plans to establish a system to dispatch expert teams to local governments hit by cyberattacks, amid difficulties in securing sufficient personnel and budgets for cybersecurity measures, informed sources told Jiji Press. The team of information