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Tokyo, March 6 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo police have arrested a director at Japan Broadcasting Corp., the country’s public broadcaster known as NHK, on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman in the Japanese capital’s Shibuya Ward, it was learned Friday. According to the Metropolitan

Tokyo, March 6 (Jiji Press)–Two Japanese nationals are being detained in Iran, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Friday. The Japanese government has been able to contact the two nationals even after the U.S.-Israeli attack on the Middle Eastern country on Saturday, and

Tokyo, March 6 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will attend a memorial ceremony in the northeastern city of Fukushima on Wednesday to mark the 15th anniversary of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Chief Cabinet Secretary Kihara Minoru said Friday. In

Silicon Valley, March 5 (Jiji Press)–Hanamaruki Foods Inc. said Wednesday that it will sell a liquid version of “shio-koji” seasoning to consumers in the United States, starting around this summer. The product is currently on display at a natural food trade show

Tokyo, March 6 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government Friday approved a bill to establish the planned disaster management agency, which will serve as a central command body for disaster response. The current disaster management division of the Cabinet Office will be reorganized into

Tokyo, March 6 (Jiji Press)–Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. will invest 3.4 billion dollars in the United States to boost production capacity for polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, and caustic soda, the Japanese company has said. With the funds, Shintech Inc., the major chemical firm’s

Tokyo, March 6 (Jiji Press)–A Japan-linked vessel anchored in the Gulf of Oman suffered mild damage apparently due to objects that fell on it, Japanese transport minister Yasushi Kaneko said Friday. There were no Japanese nationals on board, and no one on

Tokyo, March 6 (Jiji Press)–As of the end of 2025, the cumulative number of deaths indirectly linked to the massive March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan had reached 3,810, with little sign that such losses will cease anytime soon. The disaster,

Naha, Okinawa Pref., March 6 (Jiji Press)–A Japanese high court on Thursday upheld a seven-year prison sentence given to a 23-year-old U.S. Marine charged with nonconsensual sexual intercourse resulting in injury to a woman in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, in May 2024.

Tokyo, March 6 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party, submitted a proposal Friday for revising the operational guidelines for the country’s three principles on defense equipment exports, aiming to pave the way for allowing