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Tokyo, Oct. 27 (Jiji Press)–Major Australian life insurer Challenger Ltd. has rejected an acquisition offer from a local subsidiary of Japanese peer Daiichi Life Group Inc. In a statement released Monday, Challenger said that the offer from TAL Daiichi Life Australia Pty

Tokyo, Oct. 27 (Jiji Press)–Major Japanese life insurers will hurry further to reshuffle their Japanese government bond portfolios, replacing low-yielding bonds with higher-yielding ones as long-term interest rates trend upward, according to their latest asset management plans. Nine of the 10 major

Tokyo, Oct. 27 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government Tuesday adopted a cabinet order stipulating requirements for designating secondary capitals that would take over Tokyo’s functions in the event of a major disaster. Four prefectures–Hokkaido, Aichi, Osaka, and Fukuoka–meet the requirements under the order

Tokyo, Oct. 27 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s GMO Internet Inc. has received a warning that a release of its customer data and a ransomware attack on the company would be conducted at noon Tuesday, officials of the company said. The potential attacker has demanded

Tokyo, Oct. 27 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Tuesday that he will visit the Philippines from Wednesday to Friday to attend meetings related to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Koizumi will attend a meeting of defense ministers from ASEAN

Tokyo, Oct. 27 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock average briefly rose nearly 1,500 points Tuesday morning, as artificial intelligence-related names were boosted by growing expectations of an initial public offering by U.S. AI giant Anthropic. The index of 225 major issues listed

Tokyo, Oct. 27 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government said Monday that officials from the Japanese Embassy in Moscow held a consular meeting the same day with a reporter for Japan’s Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper who has been detained by Russian authorities on suspicion of

Tokyo, Oct. 27 (Jiji Press)–Japanese chipmaker Rapidus Corp. has announced a partnership with India’s HCL Technologies Ltd., or HCLTech, to accelerate the development of next-generation semiconductors. According to the announcement Monday, the two companies have jointly established two development centers in India,

By Toshifumi Sekitsuka Tokyo, Oct. 27 (Jiji Press)–Across America, the whir of lawn mowers is a soundtrack of suburban life. Even so, few homeowners and landscapers may pause to think about the decades of engineering, unconventional marketing and persistence that helped make

Kochi, Oct. 27 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako have visited a braille library in Kochi Prefecture, interacting with junior high and high school students. At the Otepia Kochi Talking Book & Braille Library in the city of Kochi, the capital