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Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s health ministry ordered a clinic in Tokyo to improve its operations Friday over its violations of the law on safety in regenerative medicine. An on-site inspection of Ginza Phoenix Clinic found violations, including administrations of cultured cells

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Police have arrested six men in their 20s to 30s, including an apartment management company employee, for allegedly setting fire to a private house and an adjacent vacant apartment building in Tokyo’s Shinagawa Ward last year, investigative sources

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Japan will promote economic growth through crisis management investment, economic and fiscal policy minister Minoru Kiuchi said in a parliamentary speech Friday. Kiuchi said that the biggest mission of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration is to realize a

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama on Friday pledged to reform the country’s fiscal structure to realize a strong economy and ensure fiscal sustainability. The country will “shift to a fiscal structure that supports a strong economy” by focusing

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government submitted to the Diet, the country’s parliament, on Friday a draft fiscal 2026 budget, which was compiled under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s “responsible and proactive” fiscal policy. General-account spending under the draft budget for the

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi in a speech before parliament Friday stressed the importance of communication with China. It is necessary to keep in touch with China all the more because there are pending issues between the two

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi proclaimed before parliament Friday that her administration will promote investment for boosting the country’s overall strength. Delivering her first parliamentary policy address since taking office last October at a plenary meeting of the

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. on Friday suspended operations at the No. 6 reactor of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, for inspections, part of procedures for restarting a reactor that has been

Yokohama, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Seven officers of the Kanagawa prefectural police department were referred to prosecutors on Friday for allegedly falsifying traffic violation tickets and related investigation reports. The police department of Kanagawa, south of Tokyo, will cancel some 2,700 traffic violation

(Adnkronos) – A general strike is underway today in Argentina against the labor market reform proposed by ultra-liberal president Javier Milei. This is the fourth time Argentine unions have called a general strike against Milei’s far-right government, and today’s strike coincides with