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Japanese electronic device maker Nidec Corp. submitted a report on its alleged accounting irregularities to the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Wednesday, admitting that its corporate culture prioritizing the intentions of its founder, Shigenobu Nagamori, had weakened its internal controls.
Japanese film director Yoichi Higashi, known for mega-hit 1992 movie "The River with No Bridge," died of old age at a hospital in Tokyo on Jan. 21. He was 91.
An infielder of the Japanese professional baseball team Hiroshima Toyo Carp has been arrested for allegedly using etomidate, a designated drug also known as the "zombie cigarette."
Japanese office and household goods supplier Askul Corp. on Wednesday reported a consolidated net loss of 6.6 billion yen for the two quarters ended in November 2025.
Kumamoto District Court on Wednesday dismissed the fourth appeal for a retrial of the case involving a special court within an isolated facility where a man deemed to have leprosy was sentenced to death in the 1950s.
Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling about 240,000 units of the Prius hybrid sedan to fix the rear door-opening system, according to a report the major automaker filed with the Japanese transport ministry Wednesday.
A sinkhole up to about 30 meters wide remains open in the city of Yashio in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Wednesday, which marked one year after the hole formed and a truck fell into it.
The Japanese prime minister's office is warning that several fake websites pretending to be its own have been confirmed.
Former Bank of Japan Policy Board member Sayuri Shirai has said that the central bank's unprecedented quantitative and qualitative monetary easing regime, characterized by massive purchases of mainly Japanese government bonds, "reached its limit" around the second half of 2015 as the bank was struggling to meet its 2pctinflation target.
Eleven railway and subway operators in eastern Japan said Wednesday that they will accept tap-and-go credit card payments at 729 stations on 54 lines from March 25, about double the current numbers.
Japan and Mercosur countries have held the first meeting to discuss their strategic partnership, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
Overseas assets held by wealthy residents of Japan in 2024 rose 26.3pctfrom the previous year to a record high of 8,194.5 billion yen, the National Tax Agency said Wednesday.
Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi will hold talks with his South Korean counterpart, Ahn Gyu-back, in his hometown of Yokosuka on Friday, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
The Bank of Japan forced ahead unprecedented qualitative and quantitative easing despite its failure to overcome deflation in the country more than two years after the introduction of the massive easing policy, the minutes of the central bank's Policy Board meetings in the second half of 2015 showed Wednesday.
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp., Asahi Kasei Corp. and Mitsui Chemicals Inc. have said they will consolidate their ethylene production facilities in western Japan as early as fiscal 2030.
A Japanese court on Wednesday ordered the government to pay 3.3 million yen in compensation to bereaved relatives of three hibakusha atomic bomb survivors who returned to South Korea after the bombing some 80 years ago and could not receive relief aid for a long period.
The Bank of Japan's decision at a monetary policy meeting in December to raise its policy rate to 0.75pctreflected concerns over higher inflation stemming from a weak yen, according to the minutes of the meeting released on Wednesday.
Japan and Belgium held the opening ceremony for events commemorating the 160th anniversary of their diplomatic relations at the Egmont Palace in Brussels on Tuesday.
Twin giant pandas, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, arrived in Sichuan Province in southwestern China on Wednesday after leaving Tokyo's Ueno Zoo the previous day.
The share of women in all candidates in Japan's House of Representatives election next month stands at 24.4 pct, up 1.0 percentage point from the previous Lower House poll in October 2024 and marking a record high for a general election in the country.
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