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Bipartisan members of the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced a draft resolution condemning China's "coercive actions against Japan" that followed Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks on a potential Taiwan contingency.
The prefectural police department of Hyogo, western Japan, has sent papers on nine male officers to public prosecutors for alleged illegal gambling at online casinos.
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung may visit China and Japan next month, it has been learned.
Japanese Emperor Emeritus Akihito, the father of Emperor Naruhito, turned 92 on Tuesday.
The Japanese government decided Monday to move up a planned overhaul of the pay structure for Self-Defense Forces personnel to fiscal 2027, a year earlier than scheduled, as it seeks to address chronic staffing shortages.
The Japanese government is considering allocating a total of 3,069.3 billion yen under its fiscal 2026 budget for policies linked to the industry ministry, a 1.5-fold increase from the fiscal 2025 initial budget, it was learned Monday.
Kazuhiro Sugita, who was Japan's longest-serving deputy chief cabinet secretary with a tenure of eight years and nine months, has died, it was learned Monday. He was 84.
Koichi Hagiuda, executive acting secretary-general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te on Monday agreed to strengthen Japan-Taiwan relations, according to the Taiwanese presidential office.
The Japanese government and ruling parties began considering tightening the requirement for acquiring Japanese nationality to 10 years of residency or longer in principle, compared with the current five years, informed sources said Monday.
Japanese public prosecutors issued a summary indictment on Monday to actor Ryoko Hirosue, 45, over alleged negligent driving resulting in injury in a car accident on an expressway in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, in April.
A total of 281 teachers and staff at kindergartens, public elementary, junior high and high schools in Japan were disciplined for sexual offenses in fiscal 2024, the education ministry said in a survey report on Monday.
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Monday it has completed the sixth release of treated water from its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan into the Pacific for fiscal 2025.
Nippon Life Insurance Co. is considering increasing wages for its 40,000 sales representatives by at least 6pctin fiscal 2026 starting next April, a major pay hike for the second consecutive year, Nippon Life President Satoshi Asahi said in a recent interview.
Japan's Fast Retailing Co. said Monday that it will raise its starting salary by 12pctto 370,000 yen per month for employees joining next spring who may be assigned overseas.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's launch of its No. 8 H3 rocket on Monday was unsuccessful, failing to send the Michibiki No. 5 positioning satellite into the intended orbit.
A Japanese expert team Monday released draft guidelines for the planned Japanese version of Britain's Disclosure and Barring Service to check the sexual offense records of teachers and others whose work involves contact with children.
A suicide note left by Japan's under-the-table negotiator on the 1972 Okinawa reversion has been exhibited at the Okinawa Prefectural Archives, telling visitors the envoy's grief of brokering a secret nuclear agreement with the United States.
A cafe set up by Japanese actor Ken Watanabe in 2013 has closed down after supporting the reconstruction of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, hit hard by tsunami from the March 2011 major earthquake.
The Niigata prefectural assembly Monday endorsed Niigata Governor Hideyo Hanazumi's decision to approve a restart of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in the central Japan prefecture.
Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter, Princess Aiko, visited on Sunday a special photo exhibition themed on Tokyo during World War II.




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