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Tokyo, Jan. 8 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s inflation-adjusted real wage index fell 2.8 pct year on year in November 2025, marking the 11th straight month of decline as wage growth failed to outpace rising prices, government data showed Thursday. Nominal wages per worker, including

Kashiwara, Osaka Pref., Jan. 8 (Jiji Press)–A horse park in the western Japan prefecture of Osaka is protecting and raising “Dosanko” Japanese horses, with only some 1,000 of the breed to be found in Japan. Masashi Yokoyama, 71, operates a park where

Tokyo, Jan. 7 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government will set up a Japanese version of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, to conduct a cross-ministerial review of foreign investments in Japanese companies. The plan to establish a Japanese

(Adnkronos) – “Russia and China have zero fear of a NATO without the United States, and I doubt that (the Alliance, editor’s note) would be there for us if we really needed it.” The President of the United States, Donald Trump, stated

(Adnkronos) – A group of 46 Italian tourists were set to arrive in the Saudi city of Jeddah on Wednesday after they were stranded on Yemen’s remote island of Socotra when the United Arab Emirates withdrew its troops from Yemen last week

(Adnkronos) – The United States has taken control of the Marinera oil tanker after more than two weeks of pursuit in the Atlantic. An American official told Nbc, specifying that the operation was led by the Department of Homeland Security with the

Naha, Okinawa Pref., Jan. 7 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Wednesday met with Nago Mayor Taketoyo Toguchi to seek local understanding for relocating the U.S. Marine Corps’ Futenma air base to the southern Japan city. The first meeting between Koizumi

(Adnkronos) – A coup has been thwarted in Burkina Faso, which involved the killing of President and military leader Ibrahim Traoré. This was denounced by Burkina Faso’s Minister of National Security, Mahamadou Sana, according to whom the plan had been organized by

(Adnkronos) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked his team, engaged in ”another session” of talks today in Paris with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, to “discuss possible formats for leader-level meetings between Ukraine, other European states, and the United States.”

(Adnkronos) – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke in recent hours with the Argentine Foreign Minister and the President of Ecuador, with whom he discussed the situation in Venezuela. Rubio – reported State Department Deputy Spokesperson Tommy Piggot – spoke with