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Nagoya, Jan. 29 (Jiji Press)–Sri Lankan detainee Wishma Sandamali’s life could have been saved at three different times before she died at an immigration facility in Japan in 2021, a doctor said in a court hearing on Wednesday. Wishma’s death at the

Narita, Chiba Pref., Jan. 29 (Jiji Press)–The number of foreign passengers on international flights to and from Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, rose 3 pct from a year earlier to 2,108,313 in December, hitting a record high for

Tokyo, Jan. 29 (Jiji Press)–Some services at 140 “shinyo kumiai” credit cooperatives across Japan, including remittances, became temporarily unavailable Thursday due to a system failure, their central banking body said. The services came back to normal after being restored in stages from

Tokyo, Jan. 29 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s push to overhaul the country’s security policy is a major point of contention in the campaigning for the Feb. 8 election for the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament. Takaichi’s ruling

Tokyo, Jan. 29 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Ministry of Finance on Thursday upgraded its economic assessment for the Hokuriku and Okinawa regions while leaving its view on the remaining nine regions unchanged. In a quarterly report, the ministry said that the country’s economy is

Nagoya, Jan. 29 (Jiji Press)–The Toyota Motor Corp. group took the top spot in global vehicle sales for the sixth consecutive year in 2025, thanks chiefly to the popularity of its hybrid vehicles in North America, data showed Thursday. The Japanese automaker’s

Tokyo, Jan. 29 (Jiji Press)–Japanese imaging devices maker Canon Inc. said Thursday that it will promote Executive Vice President Kazuto Ogawa to president and chief operating officer, effective on March 27. “I will do my best to fulfill my duties for the

Tokyo, Jan. 29 (Jiji Press)–The number of people who died by suicide in Japan in 2025 came to 19,097, standing below 20,000 for the first time since the statistics began in 1978, preliminary government data showed Thursday. Suicides among elementary, junior high

Tokyo, Jan. 29 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s private-sector rice imports surged 95-fold in 2025 from the previous year to 96,834 tons as demand for foreign rice was strong despite high tariffs because of surging prices for domestically grown rice, the Finance Ministry said Thursday.

Tokyo, Jan. 29 (Jiji Press)–Box-office revenues in Japan soared 32.6 pct from the previous year to mark a record high of 274,452 million yen, led by megahit Japanese films in 2025, an industry group has said. The revenue surpassed the 261,180 million