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(Adnkronos) – The US armed forces have coordinated the transit of about 70 commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz in the last three weeks, despite the stalemate in negotiations to end the conflict with Iran. American officials told the New York

Tokyo, June 1 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. will start removing nuclear fuel from the spent fuel pool at the No. 2 reactor of its tsunami-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Tuesday, it was learned Monday. The work

Tokyo, June 1 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Monday approved a bill that criminalizes vandalism of the Japanese national flag. The party plans to submit the bill during the ongoing Diet session after coordinating with its junior coalition partner, the

Tokyo, June 1 (Jiji Press)–Japan will launch an investigation to judge whether antidumping duties need to be imposed on steel products from China, South Korea and Taiwan, the finance and industry ministries said Monday. The probe into hot-rolled steel strips and sheets

Tokyo, June 1 (Jiji Press)–The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan agreed Monday to put the government’s fiscal 2026 supplementary budget bill to a vote by a House of Councillors committee on Friday and then to

Tokyo, June 1 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi held telephone talks with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday, calling for maximum flexibility to end the U.S.-Iran conflict. During the call, Takaichi said that she expects the two countries to reach a

(Adnkronos) – 53% of Germans do not believe that replacing Friedrich Merz would benefit the conservative bloc of the Cdu/Csu. According to a Forsa poll conducted for the weekly Stern and for Rtl, the majority of the population believes that the two

Tokyo, June 1 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government plans to promote public knowledge about gender and sexual diversity through a multilayered approach in its first basic program designed to promote understanding of LGBT people and other sexual minorities, a draft showed Monday. The

Tokyo, June 1 (Jiji Press)–SoftBank Group Corp. became the most valuable Japanese company on Monday, ending Toyota Motor Corp.’s 22-year reign. On the Tokyo Stock Exchange, SoftBank Group shares jumped about 14 pct, boosting the company’s market capitalization to 48,784.8 billion yen,

Tokyo, June 1 (Jiji Press)–Japanese convenience store chain FamilyMart Co. made newly installed automated teller machines developed by Seven Bank available for use by store visitors Monday. FamilyMart, which installed the first of its Seven Bank-made ATMs in Tokyo’s Minato Ward, aims