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Akita, Nov. 6 (Jiji Press)–A Japanese court found on Thursday that the July 20 election for the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet, Japan’s parliament, was held “in a state of unconstitutionality” because of large vote-value disparities. But Naoto

Tokyo, Nov. 6 (Jiji Press)–The Tokyo metropolitan government’s board of education on Thursday drafted an outline of proposed guidelines to help school teachers respond to unreasonable demands from parents and guardians, and presented it to an expert panel. The outline states that

Yokohama, Nov. 6 (Jiji Press)–Nissan Motor Co. said Thursday that it fell into the red in April-September for the first time in five years, weighed down by higher U.S. tariffs imposed by the administration of President Donald Trump, as well as lackluster

Tokyo, Nov. 6 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s economy is projected to have shrunk for the first time in six quarters in July-September, hit by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, private think tanks said. The country’s inflation-adjusted gross domestic product is projected to have fallen

Tokyo, Nov. 6 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party will propose that the government quadruple its aid for the country’s content industry to around 100 billion yen, it was learned Thursday. The LDP’s Research Commission on Intellectual Property Strategy has drafted the

Osaka, Nov. 6 (Jiji Press)–Osaka District Court on Thursday sentenced a 25-year-old man to four years and six months in prison for swindling 1.45 billion yen in a real estate scam in the busy Minami area in Osaka, western Japan. Judge Akira

Tokyo, Nov. 6 (Jiji Press)–Nissan Motor Co. said Thursday that it fell into the red in April-September for the first time in five years, weighed down by higher U.S. tariffs imposed by the administration of President Donald Trump, as well as lackluster

Kanazawa, Ishikawa Pref., Nov. 6 (Jiji Press)–The number of people who decided to repair their homes damaged by last year’s earthquake and heavy rain that hit the Noto Peninsula in central Japan is half that of those who opted to demolish their

New York, Nov. 5 (Jiji Press)–The cities of Bizen and Setouchi in the western Japan prefecture of Okayama kicked off an exhibition and sales event for Bizen pottery and other traditional crafts at a gallery in New York on Wednesday. With fostering

Tokyo, Nov. 6 (Jiji Press)–Japanese police have arrested a man for allegedly having a 12-year-old Thai girl work at his massage shop in Tokyo, in a suspected human trafficking case involving sexual exploitation of a child. The man, Masayuki Hosono, 51, was