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(Adnkronos) – Foreign minister Antonio Tajani, who leads Italy’s conservative Forza Italia party, is holding talks in Heidelberg, Germany, on Friday with Chancellor Friedrich Merz and European People’s Party president Manfred Weber on ways to boost European innovation.  The talks are taking

Tokyo, Dec. 12 (Jiji Press)–The Bank of Japan is set to raise its policy interest rate from the current 0.5 pct to 0.75 pct at the next monetary policy meeting, Jiji Press learned Friday. It will be the BOJ’s first rate hike

Tokyo, Dec. 12 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Akizuki destroyer conducted a joint exercise with the U.S. Navy’s aircraft carrier George Washington and its Dewey destroyer in the Pacific off the southern coast of Japan’s Kanto region this week, the MSDF

Tokyo, Dec. 12 (Jiji Press)–Almost half of Japanese nationals feel familiar with loneliness and isolation, a government survey showed Friday. According to the Cabinet Office’s first public opinion survey on the issue, 48.4 pct of respondents answered they feel “familiar” or “rather

(Adnkronos) – Webuild achieves an “A” rating, the highest assigned by CDP’s (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project) Climate Change 2025 program, entering the prestigious “A-List” which includes only 4% of the over 24,800 companies evaluated by the program worldwide. The result confirms the

Tokyo, Dec. 12 (Jiji Press)–Japan issued tsunami advisories for the Pacific coast of Hokkaido and Aomori, Iwate and Miyagi prefectures from northern to northeastern Japan after another offshore earthquake shook the regions late Friday morning. All the advisories were lifted at 2:05

Washington, Dec. 11 (Jiji Press)–The United States will launch a coalition with Japan and other countries to strengthen supply chains for critical minerals and artificial intelligence, the State Department said Thursday. The Pax Silica partnership is a “U.S.-led strategic initiative to build

Tokyo, Dec. 12 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s industry ministry said Friday that its affiliated National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, or AIST, will establish a research and development base for advanced semiconductors in Chitose, Hokkaido, northernmost Japan. The facility will be available

Tokyo, Dec. 12 (Jiji Press)–Petroleum Association of Japan President Shunichi Kito has warned against a misconception that gasoline prices will plummet due to the year-end abolition of the provisional gasoline tax surcharge. There has been “no turmoil” during the phased increase in

Tokyo, Dec. 12 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth agreed in their phone talks on Friday that their countries will maintain close communication and coordination following China’s use of military radar on Japanese Air Self-Defense Force