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Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese version of Major League Baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani’s English-language picture book about his beloved dog, Decoy, was published Friday. The book, whose original title is “Decoy Saves Opening Day,” describes how the dog, called Dekopin in

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Japan and the United States are considering next-generation nuclear power reactor construction as a strong candidate for the second round of Japan’s investments in and loans to the United States totaling 550 billion dollars as part of the

(Adnkronos) – Italy observed the first meeting of US president Donald Trump’s Board of Peace on Thursday in Washington DC to be at frontline of efforts to achieve peace in Gaza and a two-state solution to the long-running conflict between Israel and

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–The Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. group will start a forest inventory service using drones in collaboration with Hitachi Systems Ltd., Jiji Press learned Friday. In Japan, forests, which cover about 70 pct of the archipelago, have increasingly been

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Research Commission on Security on Friday approved a draft proposal for the government to scrap current rules limiting the scope of defense equipment exports, thereby allowing lethal arms shipments in principle. The

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s health ministry ordered a clinic in Tokyo to improve its operations Friday over its violations of the law on safety in regenerative medicine. An on-site inspection of Ginza Phoenix Clinic found violations, including administrations of cultured cells

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Police have arrested six men in their 20s to 30s, including an apartment management company employee, for allegedly setting fire to a private house and an adjacent vacant apartment building in Tokyo’s Shinagawa Ward last year, investigative sources

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Japan will promote economic growth through crisis management investment, economic and fiscal policy minister Minoru Kiuchi said in a parliamentary speech Friday. Kiuchi said that the biggest mission of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration is to realize a

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama on Friday pledged to reform the country’s fiscal structure to realize a strong economy and ensure fiscal sustainability. The country will “shift to a fiscal structure that supports a strong economy” by focusing

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government submitted to the Diet, the country’s parliament, on Friday a draft fiscal 2026 budget, which was compiled under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s “responsible and proactive” fiscal policy. General-account spending under the draft budget for the