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Tokyo, March 15 (Jiji Press)–A growing number of women in Japan are building careers and taking on greater responsibilities in industries long dominated by men, including maritime transportation and construction. A government survey found that, as of 2020, women accounted for less

Tokyo, March 15 (Jiji Press)–The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged at its next policymaking meeting from Wednesday while keeping a close watch on the impacts of escalating Middle East tensions on economic activities and prices. The two-day

Tokyo, March 15 (Jiji Press)–Japanese industry minister Ryosei Akazawa has called on countries and regions in Asia to diversify energy supply sources amid rising Middle East tensions. In an address at an Indo-Pacific Energy Security Ministerial and Business Forum meeting held in

Washington, March 14 (Jiji Press)–U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday urged Japan and other countries to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for oil transportation from the Middle East, amid growing tensions over Iran. The strait has been

Tokyo, March 15 (Jiji Press)–Komeito leader Toshiko Takeya has sounded positive on the party’s integration into the Centrist Reform Alliance, a peer in the Japanese opposition camp, in the future. “We are holding careful talks with the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan

Washington, March 14 (Jiji Press)–U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday called on Japan and other countries to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for oil transportation from the Middle East, amid growing tensions over Iran. The strait has

Tokyo, March 14 (Jiji Press)–The umbrella body for labor unions at Japanese electronics makers plans to allow member unions to accept pay scale hike offers from management in the ongoing 2026 “shunto” annual wage negotiations if the proposed levels are 12,000 yen

Tokyo, March 14 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s ruling bloc pushed the government’s draft fiscal 2026 budget through the House of Representatives on Friday by taking advantage of its “power of majority” in the lower chamber of the Diet, the country’s parliament, as Prime Minister

Tokyo, March 14 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s government held a meeting Saturday with residents of Chichijima, an island in Tokyo’s Ogasawara chain in the Pacific, to explain the possibility of selecting another island in the chain as a final disposal site for highly radioactive

Tokyo, March 14 (Jiji Press)–Minister-level finance officials of Japan and South Korea held a meeting in Tokyo on Saturday, sharing concern over the rapid depreciation of the two countries’ currencies. A joint statement adopted at the meeting expressed “serious concern over the