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Tokyo, May 22 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s inflation-adjusted real wages fell 0.5 pct in fiscal 2025 from the previous year, down for the fourth straight year, the labor ministry said Friday. The pace of decline was unchanged from the previous year. The country’s wage

Tokyo, May 22 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s university graduate employment rate stood at 98.0 pct as of April 1, matching the year-earlier level, which was the second-highest on record, according to government survey data released Friday. The data from the labor and education ministries

Nagoya, May 22 (Jiji Press)–Major Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. plans to begin producing two popular minivan models in Taiwan in October and sell them in Japan as part of efforts to ease delivery delays caused by labor shortages. Toyota will build

Utsunomiya, Tochigi Pref., May 22 (Jiji Press)–One or more of the four 16-year-old boys arrested in last week’s high-profile robbery-murder case in Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, had been told to do a normal part-time job, Jiji Press learned Friday. They may have

Tokyo, May 22 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average briefly gained more than 1,300 points in morning trading Friday as high-tech names were bought aggressively amid expectations for an end to the conflict between the United States and Iran. At 11:04

Tokyo, May 22 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko have visited a special exhibition in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward celebrating the 160th anniversary of Japan-Belgium diplomatic relations ahead of its opening. The exhibition, set to open Saturday at Kokugakuin University

Tokyo, May 22 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average briefly gained more than 1,100 points in morning trading Friday as semiconductor-related and other stocks attracted buying following an overnight advance in U.S. high-tech shares. At 9:37 a.m. the index of 225

Tokyo, May 22 (Jiji Press)–A survey by a private-sector advisory panel found that women in Japan are more likely than men to view the disproportionately heavy burden of housework and child care placed on women as a major factor behind the country’s

(Adnkronos) – Like other European Union candidate countries, Ukraine must get through the rigorous accession process, enacting the necessary legal, democratic and economic reforms, Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani said Thursday after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pitched the idea of making the

Tokyo, May 21 (Jiji Press)–An Osprey transport aircraft of Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force is expected to use a U.S. military base in the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa for the first time in an upcoming exercise with the U.S. side, Jiji Press