Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s 2025 staple rice harvest is forecast to reach a nine-year high of 7,477,000 tons, up 10 pct from the previous year, the agriculture ministry said Friday. The harvest amount is, thus, expected to exceed 7 million tons

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Komeito, the junior partner of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party, will end its coalition with the LDP, a move that would dissolve their 26-year cooperation, Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito said Friday. The development makes it uncertain whether Sanae Takaichi,

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Japanese stock index futures plummeted on the Osaka Exchange on Friday after Komeito announced a decision the same day to dissolve the party’s coalition with the nation’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party. The positive mood that has supported the

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s premier Giorgia Meloni is invited to “the grand official ceasefire accord signing ceremony” between Israel and Hamas in Egypt on Monday, foreign minister Antonio Tajani stated on Friday.  “On Monday there’s the grand official ceasefire accord signing ceremony and

Osaka, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Companies are racing to hire workers who will be available for employment after the World Exposition in Osaka, a city in western Japan, ends on Monday after its six-month run. Firms from a wide range of sectors, including

Seoul, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Television celebrity Dewi Sukarno, who was the third wife of then Indonesian President Sukarno, has visited North Korea, the country’s state-run Korean Central News Agency said Friday. Sukarno, known in Japan as Madame Dewi, arrived in the North

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–A senior official of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan on Friday pointed to an emerging chance of a change in government after the Liberal Democratic Party-Komeito ruling coalition split. “The possibility of a change in

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–A Japanese government survey showed Friday that 75.8 pct of the respondents are unaware of the enactment of the country’s basic law on dementia. The result of the public opinion survey by the Cabinet Office revealed that public

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Komeito, the junior partner of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party, will end its coalition relationship with the LDP, including electoral cooperation, Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito said Friday. Saito informed Sanae Takaichi, president of the LDP, of his party’s plan

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s three expressway operators have identified 290 hazardous locations along their networks that could be vulnerable to landslides, the Board of Audit of Japan said on Friday. The board of audit urged East Nippon Expressway Co., Central Nippon

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Cabinet Office has urged U.S. artificial intelligence giant OpenAI to take measures to prevent copyright infringement through its Sora 2 video generation tool, Minoru Kiuchi, minister for intellectual property strategy, said Friday. The government agency made the

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda faces a major challenge in raising interest rates after Sanae Takaichi, who supports continued monetary easing, was elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party earlier this month. Since taking over as

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Komeito, the junior coalition partner of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party, will end its partnership with the LDP, including electoral cooperation, Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito said Friday. Saito informed Sanae Takaichi, president of the LDP, of his party’s plan

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Japanese ruling and opposition parties have decided to set up shortly a suprapartisan group for the abolition of nuclear weapons at the request of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo. On Thursday,

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–The yield on the benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond issue, Japan’s key long-term interest rate, briefly rose to a 17-year high of 1.700 pct in interdealer trading on Friday. The yield on the 380th JGB issue hit the

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–The average price of rice sold at about 1,000 supermarkets across Japan in the week through Sunday fell 6 yen from the previous week to 4,205 yen per 5 kilograms, agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Friday. The average

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Sanae Takaichi, the new leader of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, visited the prime minister’s office in Tokyo Friday for her first talks with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba since her election as LDP president on Saturday. The meeting

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Beer and quasi-beer sales at four major Japanese brewers in September shrank 2 pct from a year earlier in terms of volume, down for the sixth straight month, an estimate by an industry official showed Friday. The estimate

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Japan will send two Ground Self-Defense Force instructors to a mine removal training program in Lithuania as part of Tokyo’s assistance to the Ukrainian military, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Friday. From Nov. 3 to Dec. 5, the

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s producer prices in September increased 2.7 pct from a year earlier, reflecting continued price hikes in food and beverage items including rice, Bank of Japan data showed Friday. The producer price index, which measures the cost of

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

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