(Adnkronos) – The federal government shutdown reaches its sixth day, and hundreds of thousands of workers begin their second week with frozen salaries with few, if any, signs of an imminent bipartisan breakthrough that could reopen the government. Several members of Congress,

(Adnkronos) – Toshimitsu Motegi in a Sanae Takaichi government. If she is given the position of Japan’s prime minister, the new LDP leader, the first woman in the role, could choose Motegi, former secretary-general of the political force, as foreign minister, and

(Adnkronos) – Federal judge Karin Immergut last night again blocked Donald Trump’s attempt to deploy the National Guard in Portland, prohibiting the president from sending 300 California National Guard soldiers to Oregon. The judge granted California Governor Gavin Newsom’s request for a

(Adnkronos) – The number two of the Security Council in Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, will visit North Korea for the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of North Korea on the 10th of this month. Medvedev is

Tokyo, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–Sanae Takaichi, new leader of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is slated to launch a new party leadership team Tuesday, picking General Council Chairman Shunichi Suzuki, 72, as secretary-general, and former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi, 50, as

(Adnkronos) – A group of 15 Italians removed last week from an Israeli-intercepted aid flotilla headed for war-ravaged Gaza were flown home on Monday via Greece, foreign minister Antonio Tajani wrote on X (formerly Twitter)  “The 15 Italians from the (Global Sumud)

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 worth a total of over 390 million yen from customers’ safe deposit boxes. “The crimes were exceptionally

Tokyo, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–The victory of Sanae Takaichi in the Liberal Democratic Party’s leadership election is expected to “hasten the decline” of the party that has governed Japan for most of the postwar period, Columbia University professor emeritus Gerald Curtis said

Osaka, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday visited the World Exposition in the western Japan city of Osaka for the second time. At the Future of Life pavilion, which envisions a society 50 years from now, the

(Adnkronos) – Foreign minister Antonio Tajani has been honoured by for helping keep the country a top destination for US students thanks to a decree exempting them from biometric data collection for visa applications.  Tajani received a plaque of recognition from the

Tokyo, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–South Korean automaker Kia Corp. will enter the Japanese market next spring through the release of the PV5 midsize electric van. The PV5 is expected to have few rival models in Japan, whose market for electric vans of

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

Tokyo, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–The Bank of Japan lowered its economic assessment for Hokkaido, while keeping unchanged those for the remaining eight of the country’s nine regions, in a quarterly report released Monday. In the report, the central bank said that the

Osaka, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–Two officers from Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force who served with the U.N. Mission in South Sudan, or UNMISS, spoke about their peacekeeping experiences in a talk event at the U.N. pavilion of the 2025 World Exposition in the

Tokyo, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–With the inauguration of Sanae Takaichi as president of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, the LDP is likely to shift its focus in coalition talks from the opposition Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party) to the Democratic

Tokyo, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–A diffusion index showing the outlook for rice prices in Japan remained above the bullish-or-bearish dividing line of 50 in September, an industry group said Monday. The index stood at 57 in September, down from the previous month’s

Kyoto, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Emperor Naruhito has made an English speech at the opening ceremony of the 22nd annual meeting of the Science and Technology in Society forum in the western Japan city of Kyoto. On Sunday morning, the Emperor and

Tokyo, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–The dollar climbed above 150 yen for the first time in roughly two months Monday. At 1 p.m., the greenback stood at 150.05-07 yen, up from 147.40-42 at 5 p.m. Friday. The U.S. currency last exceeded the 150-yen

Tokyo, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s newly elected Liberal Democratic Party leader Sanae Takaichi is expected to appoint former Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi, 69, to a key cabinet post if she becomes prime minister. Takaichi, 64, elected LDP president Saturday, aims to launch her

Tokyo, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average briefly surged more than 2,100 points in morning trading Monday to hit a record high above 47,000 on an intraday basis. The election of former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, an advocate

Tokyo, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–A local train collided with a parked train at Kajigaya Station in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, shortly past 11 p.m. Sunday. This resulted in the derailment of the parked train but no one was injured. The