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Seoul, March 11 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Reconstruction Agency on Monday started screening a promotional video in South Korea highlighting food and tourist sites in Fukushima, a prefecture in northeastern Japan hit by a nuclear accident following a massive earthquake and tsunami 15 years

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)–Sales of beer and quasi-beer products in Japan shrank by 11 pct from a year earlier in February, estimates based on four major brewers’ data showed Wednesday. The decline in sales volume came after the year-before rise due

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government does not consider the current situation in the Strait of Hormuz to constitute a so-called survival-threatening situation that would allow Japan to exercise its collective self-defense right, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said Wednesday. He

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s producer prices rose 2.0 pct in February from a year earlier, driven by higher prices for food, beverages and nonferrous metals, the Bank of Japan said Wednesday. The producer price index, which measures the costs of goods

Otsuchi, Iwate Pref., March 11 (Jiji Press)–Victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami were remembered in the hardest hit prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima in northeastern Japan on Wednesday, the 15th anniversary of the disaster. Along the Pacific coast of

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)–The leaders of the Group of Seven major industrial economies will meet online on Wednesday to discuss the impact on the world economy and energy supply from the widening conflict in the Middle East, the Japanese government said.

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)–East Japan Railway Co. has said it will launch a trial in April of a system that uses artificial intelligence to monitor pantographs on trains running on its busy Yamanote Line in Tokyo to detect defects in train

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)–Japanese alcoholic drink maker Asahi Breweries Ltd. plans to resume shipments of all its products starting April 7 after a halt due to a computer system failure caused by a cyberattack on its parent. In the alcoholic drink

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)–Former Japanese interior affairs minister Ryota Takeda was appointed chair of the Japan-South Korea parliamentarians’ union, a suprapartisan group of Japanese lawmakers promoting ties between the two countries, on Tuesday. Takeda, a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s three major nonlife insurers will expand the sea areas in which extra premiums are required under ship insurance policies to cover war and terror risks, in the wake of the conflict between U.S.-Israeli forces and Iran, it