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Beijing, Sept. 29 (Jiji Press)–Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, urged Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to correct her remarks about Taiwan during his meeting in Beijing Monday with former Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said. Japan’s leader needs

Beijing, Sept. 29 (Jiji Press)–Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, urged Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to correct her remarks about Taiwan during his meeting in Beijing Monday with former Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said. Japan’s leader needs

Tokyo, Sept. 29 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Imperial Household Agency has released photographs of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako taken during their visit to Ghibli Park, a theme park in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, on Sept. 20. The photographs, released Monday, were taken by a

Tokyo, Sept. 29 (Jiji Press)–Sogo & Seibu Co.’s Seibu department store in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward will close its doors for the last time Wednesday, bringing an end to its 58-year history of shaping youth culture. The Seibu Shibuya store was opened in

New York, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)–Japan confronted China and North Korea at the U.N. General Assembly on Monday over the U.N. Charter’s enemy state clauses, after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called for the clauses to be deleted in her U.N. speech

Tokyo, Sept. 29 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government told the Diet, the country’s parliament, on Tuesday that an extraordinary session will be convened Monday. Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara conveyed the plan to the boards of the steering committees in both Diet chambers.

Tokyo, Sept. 29 (Jiji Press)–A planned visit by Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako to areas affected by a powerful earthquake in July in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, has been postponed to Wednesday, the Imperial Household Agency said Tuesday. The one-day trip,

Tokyo, Sept. 29 (Jiji Press)–Amendments to Japan’s 1947 Imperial House Law will take effect on Oct. 24, introducing measures intended to address the declining number of Imperial Family members. Under the revised law, female members of the Imperial Family will be allowed

Tokyo, Sept. 29 (Jiji Press)–Precipitation was observed in central Tokyo for 34 straight days through Tuesday, the longest streak of rainy days since records began in 1886, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The agency’s observation point for Tokyo, located in Kitanomaru

(Adnkronos) – The protest against the housing crisis and high housing costs continues in one of Madrid’s main squares, sparked after police evicted 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal from the capital apartment where she had lived her whole life. About a hundred tents have