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Tokyo, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency plans to comprehensively strengthen regulations over “dark patterns,” or website designs and other user interfaces that lead consumers to make decisions against their interests, it was learned Thursday. This plan is included in an

Tokyo, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)–Resona Bank plans to extend a total of about 45 billion yen in loans to startups in fiscal 2028, more than nine times the fiscal 2025 level, President Kazuhiro Chida has said in a recent interview. “We want

Tokyo, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s National Police Agency said Thursday it has appointed three forensic medicine experts as advisers on issues related to DNA analysis, with the aim of preventing misconduct following improper DNA tests found at the police department of the

Nagoya, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)–Chubu Electric Power Co. said Thursday that its retail unit had overcharged more than five million customers for over two years due to cost calculation errors. The overcharges, found at Chubu Electric Power Miraiz Co., affected at least

Tokyo, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)–The number of children who died from abuse in Japan in fiscal 2024 rose by 12 from the previous year to 77, an expert panel of the Children and Families Agency said Thursday. Excluding family suicide cases, the

Fukui, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)–The Bank of Japan needs to raise interest rates further to “complete the normalization of monetary policy,” Kazuyuki Masu, a member of the BOJ’s Policy Board, said Thursday. Underlying inflation, which excludes temporary factors, remains below 2 pct

Tsu, Mie Pref., Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)–Public prosecutors sought a seven-year prison sentence for former truck driver Mitsuyo Mizutani on Thursday over an expressway accident that killed six people in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, in March. According to the indictment and other

Tokyo, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)–Isao Harimoto, the first and only player in the history of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball Organization, or NPB, to achieve more than 3,000 career hits, died on Wednesday afternoon, it was learned Thursday. He was 86. Harimoto collected

Tokyo, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)–The number of people transported by ambulance due to self-harm and suicide attempts is on an upward trend in Japan, reaching 43,631 cases in 2025, a survey showed Thursday. The survey, released on World Suicide Prevention Day, was

Tokyo, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)–A total of 123 cases of ransomware attacks were confirmed in Japan in January-June, hitting the highest level on a half-year basis since the start of existing data in 2020, National Police Agency data on cyberthreats showed Thursday.