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Tokyo, July 6 (Jiji Press)–Powerful Typhoon Bavi is expected to approach the Sakishima Islands of the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa from Friday to Saturday, possibly bringing strong winds and heavy rain, the Japan Meteorological Agency said Monday. High waves are also

Tokyo, July 6 (Jiji Press)–The yield on the most recent issue of 10-year Japanese government bonds rose as high as 2.830 pct in Tokyo interdealer bond trading on Monday, hitting the highest level since May 1997. JGBs remained under selling as the

Tokyo, July 6 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo police have arrested a 15-year-old high school student on suspicion of fraudulently canceling the subscriptions of about 46,800 accounts on the Bandai Channel video streaming service by exploiting a system vulnerability. The Metropolitan Police Department’s cybercrime countermeasure

Tokyo, July 6 (Jiji Press)–Six Japanese opposition parties in the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet, agreed Monday to return to parliamentary proceedings on Tuesday. The agreement came after Yoshihiko Isozaki, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Diet affairs chief

Brussels, July 6 (Jiji Press)–Maintaining stability in Europe, with which Japan shares fundamental values, serves the country’s interests, Japanese Ambassador to NATO Osamu Izawa said in an interview with Jiji Press. Izawa pointed out that even if U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration

Tokyo, July 6 (Jiji Press)–The Defense Ministry introduced Luup Inc.’s electric scooter-sharing service at its Ichigaya headquarters in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward this month to help employees travel inside and outside the 25-hectare site, which is five times larger than the Tokyo Dome

Beijing, July 6 (Jiji Press)–A Chinese navy submarine has fired a missile toward the Pacific, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported Monday. Earlier in the day, the Japanese government was notified by the Chinese defense ministry of a plan to shortly launch

Tokyo, July 6 (Jiji Press)–Companies in Japan face the need to improve job opportunities and work environments for people with disabilities, after the statutory minimum employment rate for such people was raised to 2.7 pct from 2.5 pct on Wednesday. Even before

Tokyo, July 6 (Jiji Press)–Japan should engage in discussions involving all stakeholders on whether and how to reform its public medical insurance system, Takashi Yonekawa, deputy head of the National Federation of Health Insurance Societies, or Kenporen, said in a recent interview.

Tokyo, July 6 (Jiji Press)–The number of reported fraud cases in Tokyo involving scammers posing as police officers dropped 38.8 pct from a year earlier in the first five months of 2026, Metropolitan Police Department sources said Monday. The number of such