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Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s job availability ratio rose 0.01 point from the previous month to 1.19 in September, marking its first increase in three months, the labor ministry said Friday. The number of effective job openings leveled off from August, while

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–The Bank of Japan said Friday that the country’s underlying inflation has reached its 2 pct target, marking a new phase in its monetary policy nearly 14 years after it first set the inflation goal and launched large-scale

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock average briefly plunged more than 1,900 points Friday morning, dragged down by renewed selling of artificial intelligence-related shares. The index of 225 major issues listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Prime section finished morning

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Employees at the Japanese government have been able to reduce their working hours by 110 minutes per week on average through the use of the “Gennai” generative artificial intelligence platform, a Digital Agency survey showed Friday. The online

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a Chinese man, 24, for allegedly carrying out a spray attack at the Ginza Six shopping complex in the Japanese capital’s upscale Ginza district in May. Ye Shengfeng, 24, a university student

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Private-sector members of a key Japanese government council have proposed active use of surpluses in the state’s foreign exchange special account as financial resources to cover massive fiscal needs. The proposal was presented at Thursday’s meeting of the

Cebu, Philippines, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has held an expanded defense ministers’ meeting with countries including Japan, the United States and China in Cebu, the Philippines, for discussions on security issues. At the meeting held Thursday, China,

Tokyo, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Oriental Land Co., the operator of Tokyo Disney Resort, has posted record-high first-half group sales and operating profit. Sales in April-September rose 10.3 pct from a year before to 348.7 billion yen, while operating profit jumped 15.0 pct

Osaka, Oct. 30 (Jiji Press)–Shiga Bank and Senshu Ikeda Holdings Inc. announced Thursday a basic agreement to launch talks on integrating their operations in April 2028 to create the largest local banking group in the Kansai region of western Japan in terms

(Adnkronos) – A record number of 33 members have been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party at the end of the fifth annual plenary session, which recorded the lowest participation since 2024. Party discipline was on the agenda of the meeting. Xi