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Nagoya, Sept. 14 (Jiji Press)–Chubu Electric Power Co. said Monday that President Kingo Hayashi and Chairman Satoru Katsuno will step down Sept. 30 to take responsibility for an earthquake risk data fraud involving its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in central Japan. Senior

Tokyo, Sept. 14 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese men’s volleyball team has won the AVC Men’s Volleyball Asian Championship 2026, earning a spot in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. On Sunday, Japan defeated Iran 3-0 in the Asian championship final at Kitakyushu City General

Naha, Okinawa Pref., Sept. 14 (Jiji Press)–Genta Koja, who defeated incumbent Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki in Sunday’s gubernatorial election in the southern Japan prefecture, won votes from 33.2 pct of voters who supported Tamaki in the previous 2022 election, according to a

Tokyo, Sept. 14 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Monday called for stronger cooperation between Japan and the International Energy Agency amid disruptions to crude oil supplies caused by instability in the Middle East. “I hope to make the global supply-demand

Tokyo, Sept. 14 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government welcomed the first parliamentary election held in the Bangsamoro autonomous region on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Monday, following decades of Tokyo’s support for the peace process there. The election was “a historic

Tokyo, Sept. 14 (Jiji Press)–Eisuke Mori, speaker of Japan’s House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the country’s parliament, on Monday visited Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, the secretariat of the Lower House said the same day. During his stay through Tuesday,

(Adnkronos) – Tightening of drone regulations in Beijing: the authorities of the Chinese capital, where flights of these devices were already prohibited, have announced an absolute ban on possessing them starting from November, in order – it was stated – to “protect

Tokyo, Sept. 14 (Jiji Press)–Gold bar scam losses amounted to 8.13 billion yen in Japan in the first half of 2026, already topping the 6.02 billion yen lost in all of last year, police data have shown. The National Police Agency estimates

Rikuzentakata, Iwate Pref., Sept. 14 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Crown Prince Akishino and his son, Prince Hisahito, on Sunday and Monday visited areas in northeastern Japan that were hit hard by a massive earthquake and tsunami 15 years ago. It was Prince Hisahito’s first

(Adnkronos) – The results of the Swedish national elections show a slight lead for the center-left opposition over the right-wing government. According to what was communicated by the polling stations, the left-wing bloc, led by the Social Democratic leader Magdalena Andersson, is