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Tokyo, June 18 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average closed above 70,000 and even 71,000 for the first time on Thursday as it extended a record-breaking run to a fourth session. The index of 225 selected issues on the Tokyo Stock

Tokyo, June 18 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo District Court on Thursday sentenced former Japanese lawmaker Tomohiro Konno to 18 months in prison, suspended for three years, for lending his name as a lawyer to unqualified people. Konno, 50, had unqualified people use his name

Kyoto, June 18 (Jiji Press)–Nidec Corp. President and CEO Mitsuya Kishida apologized at a general shareholders meeting on Thursday for the major motor manufacturer’s accounting and quality scandals. “We deeply apologize,” Kishida said during the meeting in the western Japan city of

Amsterdam, June 17 (Jiji Press)–Visiting Japanese Emperor Naruhito expressed his wish for peace in a speech on Wednesday at a banquet in Amsterdam hosted by Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima. Touching on the history of Japan and the Netherlands fighting each

Tokyo, June 18 (Jiji Press)–Central Japan Railway Co., or JR Tokai, and West Japan Railway Co., or JR West, said Wednesday that they will start offering Supreme Class premium private compartments on their Shinkansen bullet trains on Oct. 1. A private compartment

Tokyo, June 18 (Jiji Press)–A commission of Japan’s House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, or parliament, on Thursday passed a bill to revise the law on national referendums for amending the Constitution. At a meeting of the Lower House

Tokyo, June 18 (Jiji Press)–Public support for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s cabinet fell by 5.1 percentage points from the previous month to 54.3 pct in June, hitting the lowest level since she took office last October, a monthly survey by Jiji

Tokyo, June 18 (Jiji Press)–The number of people who met with mountaineering accidents in Japan rose 226 from the previous year to 3,623 in 2025, highest on record dating back to 1961, National Police Agency data showed Thursday. The number of accidents

Delft, Netherlands, June 17 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Emperor Naruhito, currently on a state visit to the Netherlands, visited Deltares, a water-related research institute in Delft, southwest of Amsterdam, with Dutch King Willem-Alexander on Wednesday. The Emperor, who studies water issues as his lifework,

Tokyo, June 18 (Jiji Press)–The chair of a Japanese suprapartisan panel has presented a proposal to lower the consumption tax rate on food to virtually zero pct to effectively fulfill Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s campaign pledge of a zero pct food tax