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Tokyo, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)–Typhoon Surigae will likely travel in a northeasterly direction near the Izu island chain, south of Tokyo, on Thursday after moving over waters south of the Shikoku western and Tokai central Japan regions between Tuesday and Wednesday, the

Tokyo, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)–Major Japanese beer companies are revamping flagship products and reclassifying quasi-beer items as beer as they prepare for intensifying competition following Thursday’s unification of liquor taxes on beer and related products. As the tax rate change will narrow

Tokyo, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)–Noriyuki Higashiyama, president of Japanese talent agency Smile-Up. Inc., formerly Johnny & Associates Inc., said Monday that he will step down from his position. Lawyer Masayuki Yamada, chief compliance officer at Smile-Up., will take over as president, effective

Kyoto, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)–Nidec Corp. is considering a shake-up of its executive team, including its president, Mitsuya Kishida, in the wake of accounting and quality scandals at the major Japanese motor manufacturer, company sources said Monday. The Kyoto-based company is also

Tokyo, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)–In the recent cabinet reshuffle and Liberal Democratic Party executive personnel changes, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, also president of the LDP, appointed only a few women, despite her earlier pledge to increase women’s representation to levels seen

Yokohama, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)–With about half a year until the opening of the International Horticultural Expo 2027 in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, participating companies are accelerating the construction of signature facilities emphasizing resource circulation and coexistence with nature. With the theme

Tokyo, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)–So Kuramoto, who wrote scripts for many popular Japanese television dramas including the “Kita no Kuni kara” series, died of multiple organ failure on Sept. 18 at his home in Furano, Hokkaido, northern Japan. He was 91. Born

Tokyo, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)–Japan has exercised its right of reply at the U.N. General Assembly to rebut remarks by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Japan and Germany were on a path of militarization, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said Monday.

Tokyo, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s ocean freight transportation service fees soared 74.2 pct in August from a year before as the war in Iran pushed up crude oil and transportation costs, the Bank of Japan said Monday. The price index for the

Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Pref., Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)–Residents in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, are worried about well water problems after a major earthquake hit the southwestern Japan prefecture in July. While water outages have been resolved, many wells are drying up or producing cloudy