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Tokyo, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund said Friday that it earned 14,447.7 billion yen in investment profit in the July-September period thanks to higher stock prices at home and abroad. The public pension fund posted a quarterly return rate

Tokyo, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Friday it has selected 142 artisans with excellence in craft as contemporary master craftspeople who lead their respective areas. Those recognized include Keiji Zenimaru, a 48-year-old plasterer from the central prefecture

Tokyo, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Financial Services Agency said Friday that it will support a pilot project by three major domestic banks to jointly issue stablecoins, a crypto asset backed by legal tender. The agency will provide advice on legal interpretations and

Tokyo, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)–The average number of new influenza cases per regularly monitored medical institution in Japan in the week through Sunday stood at 14.90, exceeding the alert level of 10, the health ministry said Friday. The figure, based on data

Tokyo, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)–A senior official of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA, has said that the war in the Gaza Strip is “not over” despite a ceasefire deal between Islamic group

Tokyo, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government Friday announced the appointments of new nongovernmental members of its blue-ribbon Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, including former Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Masazumi Wakatabe. Wakatabe, professor at Waseda University, advocated aggressive monetary easing

Fukuoka, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)–Toyota Motor Corp. will review over the next year its program to build a battery plant for electric vehicles in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, due to a slowdown in global EV demand, Fukuoka Governor Seitaro Hattori said Friday.

(The third paragraph from the bottom should have read, “In 2022, before the tritium-containing treated water was released,…” instead of as sent. A substitute story follows.) Japan Resumes Scallop Exports to China Tokyo, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)–Japan has resumed exports of scallops

Kyoto, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)–A team at Kyoto University’s Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, or CiRA, has succeeded in creating component cells for the thymus using human induced pluripotent stem cells. The thymus produces cells linked to T cells, the

Seoul/Tokyo, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)–North Korea launched a ballistic missile from around Taegwan in the northwestern region toward the Sea of Japan on Friday, according to the South Korean military. The missile seems to have already fallen into waters outside Japan’s exclusive