Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–A Japanese panel of experts on Thursday gave the green light for the health minister to approve the production and sale of two regenerative medical products that use induced pluripotent stem, or iPS, cells. The products, if approved

(Adnkronos) – Bill Gates has canceled his speech scheduled for today at the artificial intelligence summit in India. The Gates Foundation stated this after the Microsoft founder was named in the Epstein files. “‘After careful consideration and to ensure that the focus

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Thursday that the country will host a ministerial meeting on the utilization of artificial intelligence in March. She made the announcement in a video message sent to the ongoing AI Impact Summit

Cairo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–A Japanese member of Doctors Without Borders has expressed a sense of crisis as the group known as MSF has to stop humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip due to Israel’s measure banning international nongovernmental organizations from operating

Yokohama, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japanese police will question a man in his 40s on suspicion of using a forged ID card to trespass into the U.S. Navy’s Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, Jiji Press learned Thursday. The Kanagawa prefectural

Kobe, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japanese police have referred to prosecutors a man in Kobe, the capital of Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, for allegedly attaching a loss prevention tag to the bicycle of a female acquaintance without her consent. The suspect, a company

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–Only 18.9 pct of people in Japan have hopes for the new opposition Centrist Reform Alliance, falling far behind the 59.2 pct who do not, a Jiji Press poll suggested on Thursday. The party was formed by the

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–The support rate for Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party topped 30 pct for the first time in four years in February, a Jiji Press opinion poll showed Thursday. Support for the LDP jumped 7.6 percentage points from the

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–Nearly a quarter of people in Japan oppose cutting the consumption tax, a major issue in the Feb. 8 general election, a Jiji Press opinion poll showed Thursday. In the survey, conducted over the four days through Monday,

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–More than half of respondents expect momentum in parliamentary debate over constitutional revision after the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s landslide in the House of Representatives election, a February poll by Jiji Press showed Thursday. In the survey, 51.4

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–The second cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi got up and running Thursday, a day after its launch. At an extraordinary cabinet meeting on the day, she decided to retain all 54 state ministers and parliamentary vice

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will step up efforts to bolster the country’s national security under her second cabinet, launched Wednesday following her Liberal Democratic Party’s landslide victory in the Feb. 8 House of Representatives election. The Takaichi

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s seasonally adjusted core machinery orders in December last year rose 19.1 pct from the previous month, up for the first time in two months, the Cabinet Office said Thursday. The result, which followed a 11.0 pct drop

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japanese semiconductor testing equipment maker Advantest Corp. said Thursday that part of its internal systems has been accessed illegally from outside in what may be a ransomware attack. The company said that unusual activity was detected in its

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–The support rate for Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party topped 30 pct for the first time in four years in February, a Jiji Press opinion poll showed Thursday. Support for the LDP jumped 7.6 percentage points from the

Washington, Feb. 18 (Jiji Press)–U.S. Federal Reserve officials discussed the impact of a weaker yen and higher Japanese government bond yields when they met in late January, the minutes of the meeting showed Wednesday. “A few participants noted the need to monitor

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–A ransomware attack at Japanese food and beverage giant Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. last September led to the leak of 115,513 sets of personal data, the company has said. Of the total, 110,396 involved the names and phone

Otsu, Shiga Pref., Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japanese police arrested a 22-year-old Syrian man on Wednesday on suspicion of abandoning a woman’s body in a wooded area in Maibara, Shiga Prefecture, western Japan. Mohamad Hamoud, an unemployed man from Ogaki in neighboring Gifu

Washington, Feb. 18 (Jiji Press)–The U.S. Department of Defense has said that it would not return the site of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Futenma air base in Okinawa Prefecture to the Japanese side unless a long runway is secured at a replacement

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly threatening a junior high school girl into prostitution in violation of the child welfare law, investigative sources told Jiji Press. According to the sources, Eiki Morita, a

Milan, Feb. 18 (Jiji Press)–Mari Fukada, 19, captured gold in the women’s snowboard slopestyle event at the Milan-Cortina Olympics on Wednesday, becoming the youngest Japanese female gold medalist at a Winter Games. Kokomo Murase took bronze in the same event, earning her

(Adnkronos) – Stop, “until further notice”, to social media platforms in Gabon. The decision by the telecommunications authority (Hac) is motivated by the accusation of “inappropriate, defamatory” content and feared repercussions for “social cohesion, institutional stability and national security”. The Authority, reports

(Adnkronos) – A cybercriminal managed to access a national bank account database and viewed information on 1.2 million accounts. This was announced by the French Ministry of Economy in a statement, explaining that the individual used stolen employee credentials and gained unauthorized

(Adnkronos) – A shooting in a park in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato has caused the death of one person and the injury of eight minors, according to local authorities. The attack, which occurred late yesterday evening, resulted in the death

(Adnkronos) – A ministerial meeting of the Friends of the Western Balkans Group will take place in Rome on 3 March, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said during a visit to Albania’s capital, Tirana, on Wednesday.  Tajani made the announcement at press conference

(Adnkronos) – The Foreign Ministers of Albania, Bulgaria, Italy, North Macedonia, and Romania have adopted a joint declaration on Corridor VIII. The document reaffirmed ”our commitment to close cooperation and good neighborly relations”, emphasizing that ”Corridor VIII is a strategic east-west axis

(Adnkronos) – In Japan, Sanae Takaichi was confirmed in Parliament, formally the new prime minister after the triumph of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the elections ten days ago. In the Lower House, with 465 seats, where the majority is held

(Adnkronos) – A judge has blocked the deportation of Moshen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student who led protests at Columbia University against Israel and the war in Gaza. In the ruling, Judge Nina Froes, who handles immigration cases, blocked the procedure initiated by

(Adnkronos) – At least 38 miners have died due to an explosion in a lead mine in Plateau State, central Nigeria, according to local sources reported to AFP.  “38 people have been confirmed dead and another 27 have been rushed to hospital,”

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–Following her re-election as Japan’s prime minister on Wednesday, Sanae Takaichi expressed her resolve for the passage of the government’s fiscal 2026 budget bill by March 31, the end of fiscal 2025. At a press conference, Takaichi indicated