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Tokyo, May 17 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s opposition parties are set to grill Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi over plans to compile a fiscal 2026 supplementary budget aimed at addressing rising crude oil prices and inflation amid continued turmoil in the Middle East, during a

Tokyo, May 17 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency plans to introduce a new food-labeling system that will enable consumers to scan quick response, or QR, codes on processed food packages to access detailed product information, including ingredients, on a webpage. After drawing

Utsunomiya, Tochigi Pref., May 16 (Jiji Press)–Japanese police arrested three more 16-year-old boys in connection with a robbery-murder incident targeting an elderly woman in Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, it was learned Saturday. The number of those arrested rose to four in total.

Tokyo, May 16 (Jiji Press)–The student body organizing the University of Tokyo’s May Festival said on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday that all events of the school festival scheduled for the day have been canceled following a bomb threat. The festival was

Utsunomiya, Tochigi Pref., May 16 (Jiji Press)–Japanese police arrested three more 16-year-old boys in connection with a robbery-murder incident targeting an elderly woman in Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, it was learned Saturday. The number of those arrested rose to four in total.

Sendai, Miyagi Pref., May 16 (Jiji Press)–Tohoku Electric Power Co. said Saturday that it has halted the No. 2 reactor at its Onagawa nuclear power plant in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Miyagi for inspection, following the detection of a trace of

Ozu, Ehime Pref., May 16 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Saturday afternoon visited the city of Ozu in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, and met with people affected by a massive rain disaster that hit the region in 2018. During

Tokyo, May 16 (Jiji Press)–An executive of U.S. startup Anthropic has vowed to cooperate with Japan on its responses related to Claude Mythos, the company’s cutting-edge artificial intelligence model. At a meeting in Tokyo on Friday with Masaaki Taira, chairman of the

Tokyo, May 16 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations, or Zen-Noh, has said that it will raise fertilizer prices for autumn use, distributed from June through October, by up to 14.5 pct compared with spring fertilizers distributed through this month.

Tokyo, May 16 (Jiji Press)–Japanese lawmaker Renho, who previously served as executive deputy leader of the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, has lost an election for the leadership of the party’s Tokyo chapter. The 58-year-old member of the House of Councillors,