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(In the story “Takaichi Expecting Additional BOJ Rate Hike: Adviser,” moved on Friday, the first paragraph should have read, “…to raise its policy interest rate in the near future, Etsuro Honda, an economic adviser to the Japanese leader, has said…,” and the

Milan, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)–Japanese snowboarder Yuto Totsuka snatched the gold medal in the men’s halfpipe event at the Milano Cortina Games on Friday, giving Japan its third gold medal in snowboarding at the Winter Olympics. Among other Japanese snowboarders, Ryusei Yamada

Tokyo, Feb. 14 (Jiji Press)–The families of missing persons believed to have been abducted by North Korea but not designated as such on the Japanese government’s official list of abduction victims need broader support as their activities have been affected by aging.

(Adnkronos) – The American Central Command (Centcom) announced that it has completed the transfer to Iraq of ISIS detainees who were prisoners in Syria. In a statement, Centcom specified that it had “concluded the transfer mission after a night flight from northeast

(Adnkronos) – ”Two men have been sentenced to life imprisonment” after being found guilty of planning to attack the Jewish community in Manchester in what could have been “the deadliest terrorist attack in the United Kingdom.” The BBC reports, explaining that it

(Adnkronos) – According to data from the Bangladesh Election Commission, the nationalist BNP party alliance won 212 seats in Parliament, more than two-thirds, while 77 went to the coalition led by Jamaat-e-Islami. The Commission’s secretary, Akhtar Ahmed, told reporters. Approximately 59% of

Fukuoka, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Fisheries Agency has seized a Chinese fishing boat and arrested its 47-year-old Chinese captain as the ship allegedly tried to flee to evade an inspection in the Japanese exclusive economic zone off an island in the southwestern

Tokyo, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)–The labor union at Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric Corp. plans to demand annual bonuses equivalent to 6.5 months’ salary in this year’s “shunto” spring labor-management negotiations, Jiji Press learned Friday. The planned request amount matches the record high, which

Tokyo, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)–An advisory panel to Japan’s health minister decided Friday to allow public health insurance coverage for a gene therapy for muscular dystrophy beginning Feb. 20 and set the drug’s official price at about 304.97 million yen. Elevidys, a

Tokyo, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi expects the Bank of Japan to raise its policy interest rate in the near future, but not this spring, Etsuro Honda, an economic adviser to the Japanese leader, has said in a recent