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Tokyo, Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo police have served two people with additional arrest warrants, including a person believed to be the leader of a group accused of committing phone scam cases, people familiar with the investigation told Jiji Press on Friday. The

Tokyo, Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)–Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, one of the few Socialists ever to lead Japan and renowned for a landmark 1995 statement expressing remorse and apology for the nation’s wartime actions, died on Friday. He was 101. He

Tokyo, Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)–The leader of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party), Hirofumi Yoshimura, said Friday that cutting the number of lawmakers is a nonnegotiable condition for a possible coalition with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Yoshimura, also Osaka governor,

Minamisanriku, Miyagi Pref., Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)–The remains of a six-year-old girl who was washed away by the March 2011 tsunami have been returned to her family. The girl, Natsuse Yamane, went missing after the tsunami, unleashed by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake, hit

Tokyo, Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo High Court has awarded damages to a South Asian woman and her 8-year-old daughter, who has Japanese nationality, over a police officer’s handling of a dispute. Presiding Judge Osamu Hagimoto on Thursday ordered the Tokyo metropolitan government

New York, Oct. 16 (Jiji Press)–The prefectural government of Fukushima, northeastern Japan, has held an event at a Japanese restaurant in New York to promote sake, “shochu” distilled spirits and other local products. At the event on Wednesday, U.S. restaurant representatives and

(Adnkronos) – Clashes along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan caused the death of 40 civilians before a ceasefire agreement came into effect. Karimullah Zubair Agha, director of public health in Spin Boldak, told AFP the day after the clashes. “We have

(Adnkronos) – Italian companies with renowned expertise in rebuilding after catastrophes like earthquakes are “ready” to reconstruct Gaza, but will only be able to do so if security is guaranteed in the war-flattened coastal strip, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday. 

(Adnkronos) – Italy on Thursday hailed as “historic”, Israeli foreign minister Gideon Saar and his Palestinian Authority counterpart Varsen Aghabekian’s attendance at the Med Dialogues conference in Naples.  “Today, I believe, is a historic day,” said Tajani.   Italy had played a

Hiroshima, Oct. 16 (Jiji Press)–The sounds of a piano that survived the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city of Hiroshima 80 years ago have been digitized. On Wednesday, a concert was held in Hiroshima to unveil the digitized sounds for