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Tokyo, July 3 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi plan to visit the Turkish capital of Ankara from Monday through Thursday to attend NATO summit-related events. The Japanese government reported the plan to a board meeting of

Tokyo, July 3 (Jiji Press)–The total number of individual shareholders of companies listed on Japan’s four stock exchanges in fiscal 2025 rose 10.0 pct from the previous year to a record 91.98 million, the Tokyo Stock Exchange has said. In the year

Tokyo, July 3 (Jiji Press)–Japanese labor unions won wage increases of 5.01 pct in this year’s “shunto” negotiations this spring, the final results of a survey by the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo, showed Friday. The weighted average of pay scale

Tokyo, July 3 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo District Court on Friday sentenced two men to 30 years in prison for killing a Tokyo couple who ran restaurants in the Ueno district in the Japanese capital and damaging their bodies in 2024. Prosecutors had sought

(Adnkronos) – A man with a Tibetan flag and signs against the Chinese government set himself on fire in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York.   The man was captured by UN surveillance cameras displaying a Tibetan flag and

(Adnkronos) – At least 30 people have died and 91 have been injured in yesterday’s Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv. This was reported by Tymur Tkachenko, head of the military administration of the Ukrainian capital. The Ukrainian State Emergency Service

(Adnkronos) – A bus accident has caused at least 40 deaths in Pakistan, when the vehicle plunged into a ravine after going off the road in a mountainous region in the west of the country. “A bus connecting Quetta to Peshawar plunged

Tokyo, July 3 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s health ministry has ordered Kissei Pharmaceutical Co. to report on 20 deaths among users of Tavneos, a vasculitis drug marketed by the company in Japan, health minister Kenichiro Ueno said Friday. The order was issued on June

Tokyo, July 3 (Jiji Press)–Outbound travelers from Japan this summer are projected to decrease 8.8 pct from a year earlier to 2.17 million, according to recent a survey by major travel agency JTB Corp. The survey results released Thursday showed that a

New Delhi, July 3 (Jiji Press)–Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has remembered seven Japanese nationals killed in a terrorist attack in Dhaka in 2016 that left 20 hostages dead. “The terrorists were able to take their lives, but they could not