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Tokyo, May 27 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government announced plans on Tuesday to replace top executives at three affiliated lenders–the Development Bank of Japan, Japan Finance Corp. and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation. The DBJ will promote Managing Executive Officer Hirofumi Maki,

Izumi, Kagoshima Pref., May 27 (Jiji Press)–A World War II fighter aircraft of the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Navy was recovered last month, 81 years after sinking into the ocean off Akune, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. A Kagoshima nonprofit organization in charge of

Tokyo, May 27 (Jiji Press)–International cooperation is indispensable for defense against cyberattacks employing powerful artificial intelligence models such as U.S. startup Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, NEC Corp. President and CEO Takayuki Morita said in a recent interview. “In this network society, no single

Tokyo, May 27 (Jiji Press)–Ocean cargo shipping prices in Japan rose to another record in April as the war in Iran drove up fuel costs, the Bank of Japan said Wednesday. Crude tanker rates soared as the de facto closure of the

Tokyo, May 27 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s parliament Wednesday enacted legislation featuring a measure to allow local governments to issue debt securities in digital format. At a plenary meeting, the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet, passed the legislation to revise

Tokyo, May 27 (Jiji Press)–A welcoming ceremony for Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his wife was held at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Wednesday morning, attended by Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako, Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko. The

Tokyo, May 27 (Jiji Press)–The recent oil price shock was “broad and persistent,” Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said Wednesday. The shock was “broad and persistent enough to help move Japan away from the old deflationary norm, though not into an

Tokyo, May 27 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average staged a rebound to briefly top 66,000 for the first time on Wednesday morning, buoyed by overnight gains in U.S. technology stocks. At 9:06 a.m., the index of 225 selected issues listed

Naha, Okinawa Pref., May 27 (Jiji Press)–Two Chinese coast guard ships that had entered Japanese waters off the Senkaku Islands in the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa on Monday left the area on the following day. According to the Japan Coast Guard’s

(Adnkronos) – Italy earmarks approximately 10 billion euros annually to for overseas development cooperation and ranks eighth in the world in terms of international aid for populations suffering hunger, disease, war and poverty, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Tuesday.  “This is