Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–The Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. group will start a forest inventory service using drones in collaboration with Hitachi Systems Ltd., Jiji Press learned Friday. In Japan, forests, which cover about 70 pct of the archipelago, have increasingly been

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Research Commission on Security on Friday approved a draft proposal for the government to scrap current rules limiting the scope of defense equipment exports, thereby allowing lethal arms shipments in principle. The

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s health ministry ordered a clinic in Tokyo to improve its operations Friday over its violations of the law on safety in regenerative medicine. An on-site inspection of Ginza Phoenix Clinic found violations, including administrations of cultured cells

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Police have arrested six men in their 20s to 30s, including an apartment management company employee, for allegedly setting fire to a private house and an adjacent vacant apartment building in Tokyo’s Shinagawa Ward last year, investigative sources

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Japan will promote economic growth through crisis management investment, economic and fiscal policy minister Minoru Kiuchi said in a parliamentary speech Friday. Kiuchi said that the biggest mission of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration is to realize a

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama on Friday pledged to reform the country’s fiscal structure to realize a strong economy and ensure fiscal sustainability. The country will “shift to a fiscal structure that supports a strong economy” by focusing

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government submitted to the Diet, the country’s parliament, on Friday a draft fiscal 2026 budget, which was compiled under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s “responsible and proactive” fiscal policy. General-account spending under the draft budget for the

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi in a speech before parliament Friday stressed the importance of communication with China. It is necessary to keep in touch with China all the more because there are pending issues between the two

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi proclaimed before parliament Friday that her administration will promote investment for boosting the country’s overall strength. Delivering her first parliamentary policy address since taking office last October at a plenary meeting of the

Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. on Friday suspended operations at the No. 6 reactor of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, for inspections, part of procedures for restarting a reactor that has been

Yokohama, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Seven officers of the Kanagawa prefectural police department were referred to prosecutors on Friday for allegedly falsifying traffic violation tickets and related investigation reports. The police department of Kanagawa, south of Tokyo, will cancel some 2,700 traffic violation

(Adnkronos) – A general strike is underway today in Argentina against the labor market reform proposed by ultra-liberal president Javier Milei. This is the fourth time Argentine unions have called a general strike against Milei’s far-right government, and today’s strike coincides with

(Adnkronos) – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen “will visit the Arctic region” in March, on a trip that “will also include Greenland”. This was confirmed by the EU executive’s chief spokesperson Paula Pinho during the daily press briefing, specifying that

(Adnkronos) – Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, will assume the role of deputy commander in the international stabilization force in Gaza. This was announced by American General Jasper Jeffers during the inaugural meeting of President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,”

(Adnkronos) – Last Saturday, a jihadist incursion on a paramilitary base in Burkina Faso killed about 40 people, according to what a security source told AFP today, stating that the Tandjari forest area, in the eastern province of Gourma, “was the target

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani has condemned the murder of far-right French activist Quentin Deranque in the French city of Lyon last week by suspected radical left militants, calling the killing “a serious matter than concerns us all”.  “The killing

(Adnkronos) – Foreign minister Antonio Tajani underlined Italy’s ongoing support for the war-shattered Gaza Strip’s reconstruction and its civilians during talks in Washington DC on Thursday with the High Representative of US president Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, Nickolay Mladenov.  “Before the

Yokohama, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Police in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, arrested an employee of a major Japanese trading company on Thursday for allegedly trespassing into a U.S. military base in violation of the Special Criminal Act under the Japan-U.S. status-of-forces agreement.

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–Private-sector members of the Japanese government’s Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy are set to urge the government to communicate appropriately with financial markets, Jiji Press learned Thursday. In their upcoming recommendations, the private-sector members will call on

Saitama, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–The cause of the sinkhole that formed in the city of Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, in January 2025 was corrosion in a sewer pipe, an investigation committee comprising experts said in its final report on Thursday.

(Adnkronos) – The director of Rai Sport, Paolo Petrecca, has resigned his mandate to Rai CEO Giampaolo Rossi and will leave the position at the end of the Milan-Cortina Olympics. The responsibility for Rai Sport – on a transitional basis – will

(Adnkronos) – A drone attack on a refugee camp in Sudan killed at least 15 children earlier this week. Unicef reported this. “On Monday, February 16, at least 15 children were reportedly killed and 10 injured after a drone attack on a

(Adnkronos) – Jihadists from the Lakurawa group have killed dozens of people in jihadist attacks against seven villages in Kebbi State, northwestern Nigeria. This was reported by the Nigerian police and a confidential security report seen by AFP. “Unfortunately, dozens of people

(Adnkronos) – The collapse of a building caused by an explosion in the megalopolis of Karachi, Pakistan, has resulted in at least 16 deaths, including some children, as families prepared their meal before the Ramadan fast. Rescuers reported this to AFP. “Sixteen

(Adnkronos) – A British couple detained in Iran since January 2025 has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for espionage. The family announced this. Lindsay and Craig Foreman were arrested while crossing the country by motorcycle, as they were circumnavigating the

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japanese confectionery maker Morinaga & Co. said Thursday that it will launch on March 3 seven sweets that dog owners can share safely with their pets. The company adapted its classic favorites, such as Moonlight cookies, to make

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–The average price of used condominiums in Tokyo’s 23 special wards rose 34.4 pct from a year earlier to 121.23 million yen per 70 square meters in January, hitting the highest level since 2002, real estate research firm

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–Eighteen lawmakers of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party have joined a party faction led by LDP Vice President Taro Aso, bringing the faction’s membership to a record 60 people, it was learned Thursday. The Aso faction is the

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–Labor unions of major Japanese electronics makers kicked off this year’s “shunto” spring wage negotiations in earnest Thursday, submitting pay hike demands to their respective firms’ management. Unions at Hitachi Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and other large companies

(Adnkronos) – Amid growing international pressure achieve enduring peace in the Middle East, Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani has travelled to Washington DC to attend the inaugural meeting on Thursday of US president Donald Trump’s Board of Peace’ for Gaza.  At premier