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Tokyo, Aug. 3 (Jiji Press)–Local chapter members of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan expressed opposition on Sunday to a proposed three-way merger with two other opposition parties, the Centrist Reform Alliance and Komeito. Sunday’s meeting brought together senior members of the

Uki, Kumamoto Pref., Aug. 3 (Jiji Press)–Temperatures in Kumamoto Prefecture are forecast to reach 40 degrees Celsius or higher for the first time on record Monday, adding to the plight of people in the southwestern Japan prefecture hit by a powerful earthquake

Tokyo, Aug. 3 (Jiji Press)–Plant suspension at automakers caused by last week’s major earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture is being prolonged, with the impact spreading beyond the Kyushu region, which includes the southwestern Japan prefecture. Toyota Motor Corp., Nissan Motor Co. and Daihatsu

Tokyo, Aug. 3 (Jiji Press)–The dollar plummeted to briefly fall below 155.50 yen for the first time in roughly three months in Tokyo trading Monday, after Japanese and U.S. authorities intervened in the market to buy the Japanese currency in concerted action

Lytham St. Annes, England, Aug. 2 (Jiji Press)–Japanese golfer Shiho Kuwaki won the Women’s British Open, the season’s final major event for women, on Sunday. At the event held at Royal Lytham and St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St. Annes, northwestern

Tokyo, Aug. 3 (Jiji Press)–Japanese and U.S. finance chiefs have said the two countries conducted a concerted yen-buying currency market intervention Friday, U.S. Eastern time. Japanese Minister of Finance Satsuki Katayama said in a statement Monday that the intervention, carried out “in

Tokyo, Aug. 3 (Jiji Press)–The dollar plummeted to briefly fall below 156 yen for the first time in roughly three months in Tokyo trading Monday, after Japanese and U.S. authorities intervened in the market to buy the Japanese currency in concerted action

Tokyo, Aug. 3 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average briefly gave up more than 1,600 points Monday morning, after a coordinated yen-buying foreign exchange market intervention by Japanese and U.S. authorities pushed up the Japanese currency. At 10:18 a.m., the index

Tokyo, Aug. 3 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese opposition Democratic Party for the People plans to refrain from joining the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party for the time being. Some in the LDP sought to realize the

Washington, Aug. 2 (Jiji Press)–U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that U.S. authorities conducted a yen-buying intervention in the currency market at the request of Japan. “They have a weakening yen, and they wanted a little bit of help,” Trump told reporters