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Tokyo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–Drunken driving accounted for some 10 pct of accidents involving specified small motorized two-wheel vehicles, including electric kick scooters, in Japan in 2025, a government white paper on traffic safety said Friday. Drunken driving was blamed for 43

By Hiroki Shimoo Tokyo, June 9 (Jiji Press)–Japan and Canada can work more closely together to accelerate the real-world adoption of artificial intelligence, an expert at a Toronto-based, cutting-edge research institute says. “AI will be the technology that will power the future,”

Tokyo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government on Friday decided to revise its basic plan that outlines measures to be taken over the next decade in preparation for a possible powerful earthquake occurring directly beneath the Tokyo metropolitan area. In the revised

Tokyo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–A Japanese parliamentary panel Friday approved a bill submitted by the government to reform the country’s retrial system. The Judicial Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, the country’s parliament, passed the

Tokyo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–The Japan Fair Trade Commission plans to order about 30 construction companies, including Haseko Reform Inc., to pay a total of 1.6 billion yen in fines for bid-rigging in large-scale condominium renovation contracts in violation of the antimonopoly

Tokyo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average temporarily surged over 2,800 points Friday morning, reflecting rising anticipation that the ongoing armed conflict between the United States and Iran would end. After rising as high as 67,065.94 in the early

Tokyo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, successfully launched an H3 rocket on Friday morning, after an unsuccessful launch attempt last December. The H3 rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, at

Nashville, Tennessee, June 11 (Jiji Press)–Wataru Endo, the captain of the Japanese men’s national soccer team, has withdrawn from the country’s squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup due to injury, the Japan Football Association said Thursday. In a social media post,

Tokyo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average temporarily surged over 2,600 points in early trading Friday. At 9:25 a.m., the index of 225 selected issues listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s top-tier Prime section gained 2,686.25 points, or 4.18

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani on Thursday defended Israel’s right to exist and and to not come under attack from Iran-backed Lebananese militant group Hezbollah, but underlined that the Jewish state must not attack Lebanon.  “Israel has the right to