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London, Sept. 3 (Jiji Press)–The dollar slipped below 156 yen in London trading Thursday morning, hitting its lowest level since Aug. 3. Yen buying for dollars mounted on the back of speculation that Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund may increase its investments

Tokyo, Sept. 3 (Jiji Press)–Japan and Mongolia agreed Thursday to cooperate on expanding Chinggis Khaan International Airport, which was constructed with Japan’s official development assistance. Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and his Mongolian counterpart, Batmunkh Battsetseg, reached the agreement at a meeting

Tokyo, Sept. 3 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who also heads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is considering retaining LDP Secretary-General Shunichi Suzuki in the upcoming reshuffles of her cabinet and the party’s leadership team, sources in the Takaichi administration said

(Adnkronos) – The British Foreign Office has summoned Moscow’s senior diplomat in London in connection with Russian attacks on Germany, described as ”serious and irresponsible”. Downing Street announced this. Citing in particular the attack in Leipzig, the spokesperson for the British Foreign

(Adnkronos) – Thirteen members of the Yemeni government forces were killed in clashes with Houthi fighters. A military source told AFP, accusing the group of launching an offensive to conquer areas located on the borders of the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait. “According

Tokyo, Sept. 3 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government is planning to do without a second supplementary budget for fiscal 2026, government and ruling party sources said Thursday. While the government and ruling parties are considering convening an extraordinary session of the Diet in

(Adnkronos) – An investigation has been opened against former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu for allegedly insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in the latest move against a former political ally turned rival and founder of his own party. In a statement, prosecutors

Tokyo, Sept. 3 (Jiji Press)–A Japanese court on Thursday sentenced former taxi driver Kiyotaka Zanami, 79, to three years in prison, suspended for five years, for his role in a hit-and-run in Tokyo that resulted in the death of a corporate worker

Tokyo, Sept. 3 (Jiji Press)–Minimum hourly wage hikes in 33 of Japan’s 47 prefectures for fiscal 2026 exceeded the targets set by the Central Minimum Wage Council, which advises the labor minister, it was learned Thursday. The hikes outpaced the targets by

Tokyo, Sept. 3 (Jiji Press)–University of Tsukuba professor emeritus Hideki Shirakawa, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000 for developing conductive polymers, died of metastatic liver tumor and cancer of unknown primary origin at a hospital in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture,