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Tokyo, May 14 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government is considering providing electricity and city gas subsidies from July to September, when energy demand for cooling is expected to grow, people familiar with the matter said Thursday. Electricity and city gas fees are likely

Tokyo, May 14 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s LY Corp. said Thursday it and U.S. investment fund Bain Capital have jointly proposed acquiring Kakaku.com Inc., in a move to counter Swedish investment fund EQT AB’s tender offer for the operator of the Tabelog user-generated restaurant

Tokyo, May 14 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party officially approved on Thursday a draft criminal procedure law amendment stipulating a basic ban on public prosecutors’ appeals against court orders granting retrials in the main text of the law. The government draft

Tokyo, May 14 (Jiji Press)–An oil tanker owned by a group company of Japanese oil distributor Eneos Corp. has passed through the Strait of Hormuz, people familiar with the matter said Thursday. The Eneos Endeavor became the second Japan-related oil tanker to

Tokyo, May 14 (Jiji Press)–Japanese police issued 2,147 “blue tickets” to fine cyclists for minor traffic violations in the first month since the blue ticket system was introduced April 1, National Police Agency preliminary data showed Thursday. The system allows bicycle riders

Tokyo, May 14 (Jiji Press)–A team including Takashi Shichita, a professor at the Institute of Science Tokyo’s Medical Research Laboratory, has developed a drug candidate to suppress a type of protein that causes the rehabilitation-induced partial recovery of motor functions lost from

Tokyo, May 14 (Jiji Press)–A Japanese research group has said that it identified the scientific mechanism that explains why crows are black. The study by the team led by Okayama University professor Sakae Takeuchi shows that the “switch that produces black color”

Tokyo, May 14 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average continued rising to rewrite its record intraday high Thursday morning. The index of 225 selected issues listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s top-tier Prime section started the day’s session with a marginal

Tokyo, May 14 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Supreme Court has requested a related parliamentary commission to file a petition with the Judge Impeachment Court to seek the dismissal of a judge indicted for alleged habitual gambling through an online casino site. The behavior by

Tokyo, May 14 (Jiji Press)–Dassai Inc., a Japanese sake brewer with international acclaim, opened a pop-up store featuring the collaboration between artworks by Japanese artists and sake at Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd.’s flagship Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi department store in Tokyo on Wednesday. The