Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)–Sales of beer and quasi-beer products in Japan shrank by 11 pct from a year earlier in February, estimates based on four major brewers’ data showed Wednesday. The decline in sales volume came after the year-before rise due

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government does not consider the current situation in the Strait of Hormuz to constitute a so-called survival-threatening situation that would allow Japan to exercise its collective self-defense right, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said Wednesday. He

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s producer prices rose 2.0 pct in February from a year earlier, driven by higher prices for food, beverages and nonferrous metals, the Bank of Japan said Wednesday. The producer price index, which measures the costs of goods

Otsuchi, Iwate Pref., March 11 (Jiji Press)–Victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami were remembered in the hardest hit prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima in northeastern Japan on Wednesday, the 15th anniversary of the disaster. Along the Pacific coast of

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)–The leaders of the Group of Seven major industrial economies will meet online on Wednesday to discuss the impact on the world economy and energy supply from the widening conflict in the Middle East, the Japanese government said.

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)–East Japan Railway Co. has said it will launch a trial in April of a system that uses artificial intelligence to monitor pantographs on trains running on its busy Yamanote Line in Tokyo to detect defects in train

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)–Japanese alcoholic drink maker Asahi Breweries Ltd. plans to resume shipments of all its products starting April 7 after a halt due to a computer system failure caused by a cyberattack on its parent. In the alcoholic drink

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)–Former Japanese interior affairs minister Ryota Takeda was appointed chair of the Japan-South Korea parliamentarians’ union, a suprapartisan group of Japanese lawmakers promoting ties between the two countries, on Tuesday. Takeda, a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s three major nonlife insurers will expand the sea areas in which extra premiums are required under ship insurance policies to cover war and terror risks, in the wake of the conflict between U.S.-Israeli forces and Iran, it

Tokyo, March 10 (Jiji Press)–Energy ministers from the Group of Seven major countries said in a joint statement on Tuesday that their countries are ready to take necessary measures, including releasing their oil reserves, in response to the deteriorating situation in the

Namie, Fukushima Pref., March 11 (Jiji Press)–The town of Namie in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, which suffered a major earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident in March 2011, has transformed into a hub for land-based aquaculture. Although a vast area of Namie remains

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average rose more than 1,200 points in early trading in Tokyo on Wednesday, thanks to buybacks reflecting easing concerns over oil prices and the situation in the Middle East. At 9:17 a.m., the

Futaba, Fukushima Pref., March 11 (Jiji Press)–Jun Izumita, a former elementary school teacher, recounts stories about the children who lost their lives in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, as well as those who endured hardships in the aftermath of the ensuing

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani held fresh talks with the ambassadors of several Middle East countries on Tuesday after an overnight drone attack on the Emirates’ Consulate in Kurdistan’s capital Erbil and ongoing attacks on military installations in Iraq where

(Adnkronos) – The European Parliament today voted in Strasbourg for the creation of the EU Talent Pool, a digital platform that should facilitate the recruitment of third-country nationals to work in the EU, with 414 votes in favour, 182 against and 21

(Adnkronos) – The Iranian women’s national team leaves Australia for Kuala Lumpur, where it will make a stopover before returning home, after days marked by strong tension and growing international attention, with appeals also from US President Donald Trump. For the “Lionesses”,

(Adnkronos) – With gasoline prices up 17% in the first 10 days of the war launched by Donald Trump, anxiety and concern are growing among Republicans about the effects that the conflict, and especially its energy costs for Americans, could have on

(Adnkronos) – The war between the United States, Israel, and Iran, now halfway through its second week, is proving to be very different from what its protagonists had imagined. This is according to a Wall Street Journal editorial by Yaroslav Trofimov, which

(Adnkronos) – A group of foreign academics has sued the Trump administration, accusing it of violating their First Amendment right to freedom of expression. The lawsuit specifically refers to the measure, launched last year, which prevents the entry into the United States

(Adnkronos) – While on the ground it continues to respond with missiles and drones to attacks by the United States and Israel, Iran is also carrying out its online propaganda war. The latest example is an animated video depicting “Lego” versions of

(Adnkronos) – The Damascus government has appointed a senior commander of the Kurdish forces as deputy Defense Minister, as agreed in the understanding reached between the Syrian State and the SDF after the violent clashes of recent weeks. This is Sipan Hamo,

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)–Japan marked the 15th anniversary of the March 2011 massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident on Wednesday, with around 26,000 people still living as evacuees. The number of evacuees across the country stood at 26,281 as of Feb.

Tokyo, March 10 (Jiji Press)–Energy ministers from the Group of Seven major countries said in a joint statement on Tuesday that their countries are ready to take necessary measures, including releasing their oil reserves, in response to the deteriorating situation in the

(Adnkronos) – Italy is withdrawing staff from its embassies in Beirut and in Baghdad “because they are at risk” in the widening war between the United States, Israel and Iran, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said Tuesday after Israeli forces launched attacks across

Tokyo, March 10 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth discussed the situation surrounding Iran over the phone on Tuesday. Hegseth explained the latest developments and the future outlook regarding the Middle Eastern country. Koizumi said that

(Adnkronos) – It will take “a few more weeks” to end the Iran war – that begun when the United States and Israel launched strikes on the country’s military sites in late February and which has since widened with Iranian reprisals in

Tokyo, March 10 (Jiji Press)–Japanese restaurant chain operator Colowide Co. said Tuesday that it will acquire the operator of the Cafe Veloce chain for some 44 billion yen. Colowide plans to complete the purchase of all shares in C-United Co. from investment

Tokyo, March 10 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government on Tuesday designated a total of 61 goods and technologies for priority investment by the public and private sectors, as part of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s efforts to realize a strong economy. The designations were

(Adnkronos) – Italy is continuing its diplomatic efforts towards de-escalation amid a widening Middle East conflict sparked by the strikes on Iran begun by the United States and Israel in late February. Talks are planned with Qatar’s premier Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani

Tokyo, March 10 (Jiji Press)–About 40 pct of municipalities in the three northeastern Japan prefectures hit hard by the March 2011 massive earthquake and tsunami face difficulties in disaster education for children born after the incident, a Jiji Press survey has found.