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Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s calorie-based food self-sufficiency rate stood at 38 pct for fiscal 2024, unchanged for the fourth year in a row, the agriculture ministry said Friday. In the reporting year that ended in March, per-capita consumption of rice, which

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–The number of foreign residents in Japan as of the end of June rose 5.0 pct from the end of 2024 to a record high of 3,956,619, Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki said Friday. Foreign residents accounted for 3.21

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–More than half of needy pregnant women and new mothers in Japan said that they have no savings, a survey by Save the Children Japan, a nonprofit organization, showed on Friday. The survey was conducted in April and

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government said Friday that it will tighten the requirements for foreigners to obtain the country’s residency status as a business manager, effective on Thursday. The minimum capital required to obtain the business manager visa will be

Nagoya, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Toyota Motor Corp. has launched a partially remodeled version of its bZ4X electric vehicle featuring a driving range of up to 746 kilometers on a single charge, the longest for an EV in Japan. The range increased by

Osaka, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Kansai Electric Power Co. will launch full-scale assessments on the feasibility of constructing new nuclear reactors in exchange for decommissioning aging units. In July, the Osaka-based utility announced plans to carry out geological and other surveys in the

Osaka, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–The World Exposition in the city of Osaka, western Japan, has successfully delivered its message of “unity in diversity” to the world, an executive of the six-month-long international event, which is set to end Monday, said in a

Tokyo, Oct. 9 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has decided to appoint Itsunori Onodera, former chief of the party’s Policy Research Council, as chairman of its Research Commission on the Tax System, party sources said Thursday. Onodera is expected to hold

Tokyo, Oct. 9 (Jiji Press)–Sanae Takaichi, the new leader of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, on Thursday indicated a plan to instruct the government to compile economy-boosting measures immediately if she becomes the next prime minister. She held out the plan in

(Adnkronos) – “We welcome the agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo supported by the President of the United States. The EU is ready to support the peace process, President Paul Kagame.” This was written in a social media post