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Tokyo, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–Honda Motor Co.’s N-Box minivehicle topped domestic new car sales in Japan in April-September, marking its fourth consecutive year in the lead for the first half, industry data showed Monday. Despite a 4.2 pct decline in sales from

Tokyo, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden said Monday that it has decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to three researchers, including Japan’s Shimon Sakaguchi, for their discoveries of regulatory T

Tokyo, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. resumed production of its mainstay Super Dry beer product at its six domestic breweries on Thursday after a halt due to a cyberattack-caused computer system failure, company officials said Monday. The Japanese food and

(Adnkronos) – Foreign minister Antonio Tajani has defended pasta exports to the United States, denying dumping is involved, claiming Italian industry’s behaviour is ethical, and vowing that Italy will keep backing its quality products.  “Quality Italian pasta is not dumping,” Tajani wrote

Tokyo, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–The president of a company in Hokkaido, northernmost Japan, has developed a children’s toy resembling an automated external defibrillator, or AED, to reduce the fear associated with using the lifesaving device. The toy sold out soon after going

Osaka, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–Japanese police arrested a couple in Osaka Prefecture on Monday on suspicion of attempting to fraudulently import rice, disguising the shipment as mung beans. The Osaka prefectural police department arrested Tran Thi Thu Huyen, 36, chief of a

(Adnkronos) – Children whose parents died in the devastating earthquakes that struck Afghanistan a month ago have been taken in by their relatives, whose survival depends on humanitarian aid and whose needs will increase in the coming months with the arrival of

Tokyo, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government plans to revise its action plan for preventing human rights violations linked to corporate activities by the end of the year. A draft of the revised plan designates human rights due diligence procedures and the

Tokyo, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average closed at an all-time high Monday after soaring more than 2,300 points briefly, on expectations for an aggressive fiscal policy by Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic

Tokyo, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced a former MUFG Bank employee to nine years in prison for stealing cash and gold from customers’ safe deposit boxes. Prosecutors had sought a 12-year sentence for 47-year-old Yukari Yamazaki, saying that