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Osaka, Sept. 4 (Jiji Press)–Daiwa House Industry Co. said Friday it will quit new detached-home construction in 23 of Japan’s 47 prefectures following a long-term downtrend for starts of such homes amid rising material and construction costs and population declines. From April

Tokyo, Sept. 4 (Jiji Press)–Senior officials from the Quad countries of Japan, the United States, Australia and India have agreed to keep in close contact to open the way for holding a summit of the four countries’ leaders, the Japanese Foreign Ministry

Tokyo, Sept. 4 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government expects to designate the heavy rains in the Hokuriku central region late last month as a disaster of extreme severity, making affected areas eligible for increased state aid for recovery projects, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi

Tokyo, Sept. 4 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government will provide up to 213.1 billion yen in subsidies to three domestic shipbuilders as part of efforts to double the country’s shipbuilding capacity in 10 years, transport minister Yasushi Kaneko said Friday. The subsidies to

Shirahama, Wakayama Pref., Sept. 4 (Jiji Press)–Two robotic penguins that move realistically are gaining popularity at the Adventure World theme park in the town of Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan. The robots–one modeled after a rockhopper penguin and the other after a

Kanazawa, Ishikawa Pref., Sept. 4 (Jiji Press)–The Confederation of Japan Automobile Workers’ Unions, or JAW, has affirmed its plan to seek large-scale pay hikes outpacing inflation in next year’s “shunto” spring labor-management negotiations. The policy was confirmed at the JAW’s regular meeting

Tokyo, Sept. 4 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Self-Defense Forces will continue to limit the eligibility for joining them to Japanese nationals and not consider hiring foreigners, Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Friday. Koizumi was speaking in response to a proposal from former Defense Ministry

Zurich, Sept. 3 (Jiji Press)–A late Japanese researcher won this year’s Ig Nobel Prize in medicine on Thursday for an aerodynamic study of how to blow one’s nose properly. It is the 20th straight year for a Japanese researcher to receive an

Tokyo, Sept. 4 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Justice Minister Hiroshi Hiraguchi said Friday that he will ask an advisory panel to consider a law revision barring the use of evidence submitted in civil trials for purposes not directly related to court proceedings. Hiraguchi told

Tokyo, Sept. 4 (Jiji Press)–General-account budget requests from Japanese government ministries and agencies for fiscal 2027 totaled a record 143,065.6 billion yen, the Finance Ministry said Friday. The total requested amount for the year starting next April rose by 16.8 pct from