News - Page 58

Tokyo, Nov. 6 (Jiji Press)–LY Corp. said Thursday that it will ban game software being listed on its flea market website Yahoo! Japan Flea Market for sale at a higher price than the retail price until about a month after its release.

Nara, Nov. 6 (Jiji Press)–Seven guns made by Tetsuya Yamagami, charged with the murder of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, were all lethal, a police witness said at Nara District Court on Thursday. The witness is a researcher at the Nara

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s premier Giorgia Meloni has agreed with her Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi to “work towards” a visit to Tokyo in early 2026, Meloni’s office said in a statement.  “Prime minister Giorgia Meloni had a telephone conversation today with Japan’s new

(Adnkronos) – The government has appointed former minister plenipotentiary at Italy’s embassy in Egypt, Michele Quaroni, as diplomatic advisor to defence minister Guido Crossetto, the prime minister’s office said in a statement late on Wednesday.  Foreign minister Antonio Tajani and Crosetto proposed

Tokyo, Nov. 6 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government will put on display records showing that China had historically recognized the Senkaku Islands in Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture as islands outside its territory, Jiji Press learned Thursday. The Japanese-administered islets in the East China Sea

Akita, Nov. 6 (Jiji Press)–A Japanese court found on Thursday that the July 20 election for the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet, Japan’s parliament, was held “in a state of unconstitutionality” because of large vote-value disparities. But Naoto

Tokyo, Nov. 6 (Jiji Press)–The Tokyo metropolitan government’s board of education on Thursday drafted an outline of proposed guidelines to help school teachers respond to unreasonable demands from parents and guardians, and presented it to an expert panel. The outline states that

Yokohama, Nov. 6 (Jiji Press)–Nissan Motor Co. said Thursday that it fell into the red in April-September for the first time in five years, weighed down by higher U.S. tariffs imposed by the administration of President Donald Trump, as well as lackluster

Tokyo, Nov. 6 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s economy is projected to have shrunk for the first time in six quarters in July-September, hit by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, private think tanks said. The country’s inflation-adjusted gross domestic product is projected to have fallen

Tokyo, Nov. 6 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party will propose that the government quadruple its aid for the country’s content industry to around 100 billion yen, it was learned Thursday. The LDP’s Research Commission on Intellectual Property Strategy has drafted the