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Tokyo, Aug. 13 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to one of the four northwestern Pacific islands claimed by Tokyo but controlled by Moscow. Putin’s visit to Etorofu, one of the islands Japan calls

Tokyo, Aug. 13 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Crown Prince Akishino declined to discuss the revised Imperial House Law, enacted last month, at a press conference at the Akasaka East Residence in Tokyo on Thursday. “I have various thoughts,” but added, “I would like to

Kumamoto, Aug. 13 (Jiji Press)–Amid the summer holiday season, the tourism industry in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, is suffering a 6-billion-yen blow from the recent massive earthquake. According to the prefectural government, the July 28 earthquake, which measured the maximum seismic intensity

Kanazawa, Ishikawa Pref., Aug. 13 (Jiji Press)–An 83-year-old virtual YouTuber, or VTuber, who was born in Manchuria, now northeastern China, during World War II and returned to Japan at an early age, began to post videos of her and other people’s wartime

Tokyo, Aug. 13 (Jiji Press)–The number of passport applications in Japan in July increased 1.6-fold from a year earlier to about 530,000, following a fee reduction starting that month, Jiji Press learned Thursday. There were about 3.3 times more applications in the

Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Pref., Aug. 13 (Jiji Press)–Many foreign residents of areas affected by last month’s powerful earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, are relying on each other without using evacuation shelters due to language and cultural barriers. In the city of Yatsushiro,

Tokyo, Aug. 13 (Jiji Press)–U.S. technology giant Google LLC opened its first directly run store outside the United States in Tokyo’s Omotesando fashionable district Thursday. The store sells smartphones and offers repair services. Having two stories above ground and one below, it

Tokyo, Aug. 13 (Jiji Press)–A Jiji Press survey showed Thursday that 44.8 pct of respondents welcomed the recent enactment of a bill to create a secondary capital of Japan that would supplement Tokyo’s functions in the event of a major disaster. The

Tokyo, Aug. 13 (Jiji Press)–Chinese automakers are banking on the Japanese electric vehicle market as they struggle with slowing growth in their home market and high tariffs in the United States and Europe. BYD Co., a Chinese electric vehicle giant, released the

Tokyo, Aug. 13 (Jiji Press)–Nearly half of respondents in Japan support the government’s plan to cut consumption tax on food items to virtually zero, a Jiji Press survey for August has shown. In the survey, 49.1 pct backed the plan, while 31.6