A Japanese government annual foreign policy report released Tuesday highlighted the country's policy of strengthening trilateral cooperation with the United States and the Philippines to better counter China's increasing coercive actions.時事通信社 による

Japanese anime director Hayao Miyazaki is among Time's 100 most influential people of 2024, according to the list published by the U.S. magazine Wednesday.時事通信社 による

A Japanese ruling party faction led by senior lawmaker Toshimitsu Motegi decided Wednesday to withdraw its registration as a political organization amid a strong public backlash over a high-profile political funds scandal involving the party.時事通信社 による

Major Japanese trading house Itochu Corp. and investment fund J-Will Partners plan to acquire embattled used car dealer Bigmotor Co. for 60 billion yen, it was learned Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Wednesday that it has halted fuel loading at the idled No. 7 reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, following an electrical system problem.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Wednesday agreed to deepen coordination among both countries and the United States.時事通信社 による

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Wednesday that it will start on Friday the first round in fiscal 2024 of the release of treated water containing radioactive tritium from the crippled Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant into the sea.時事通信社 による

Toshiba Corp. is considering cutting several thousand jobs in Japan as it seeks to reduce costs and improve its profit structure, it was learned Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Government-backed Japan Investment Corp. said Wednesday that its tender offer for Japanese semiconductor materials giant JSR Corp. has been successfully completed.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government said Wednesday that it plans to survey trade practices in the creative sector to consider devising guidelines for appropriate contracts.時事通信社 による

Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday that it is recalling 135,305 units of its Prius hybrid car due to a risk of doors opening during driving.時事通信社 による

The estimated monthly number of foreign visitors to Japan surpassed three million for the first time last month, a Japan National Tourism Organization report showed Wednesday.時事通信社 による

A groundbreaking ceremony was held in Osaka on Wednesday for the U.S. pavilion at the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city.時事通信社 による

Japan's average retail price of regular gasoline fell for the first time in five weeks due to boosted subsidies, the industry ministry said Wednesday.時事通信社 による

The town assembly of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, began deliberations Wednesday on whether to accept a "literature survey" to examine the town's suitability for hosting a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear plants.時事通信社 による

The Supreme Court has rejected a retrial over the so-called 1949 Mitaka incident, in which an empty train ran out of control and killed six people in Tokyo.時事通信社 による

The Diet, Japan's parliament, enacted a bill Wednesday to ease restrictions on Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. partly to help the group become more competitive on the global stage.時事通信社 による

You can calm your anger simply by writing down what caused the feeling on a piece of paper and throwing it away into a trash can or shredding it, a Japanese study has found.時事通信社 による

A Japanese Liberal Democratic Party executive Wednesday expressed his eagerness to revise the political funds control law in response to a high-profile slush funds scandal involving LDP factions.時事通信社 による

Japanese drugstore chain Welcia Holdings Co. said Wednesday that Tadahisa Matsumoto has resigned as its president.時事通信社 による

Japan Broadcasting Corp., or NHK, plans to raise the base salaries of its employees for the first time in 23 years.時事通信社 による

Japan's exports exceeded 100 trillion yen to mark a record high in fiscal 2023, which ended in March, led by strong automobile exports to the United States, preliminary customs-cleared trade data from the Finance Ministry showed Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Intervention in the currency market may be tolerated when excessive movements of foreign exchange rates are seen, an executive of the International Monetary Fund suggested Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Major Japanese automakers are rushing to develop all-solid-state batteries, considered to be next-generation automotive batteries.時事通信社 による

Junji Ito, who served as president of Kanebo Ltd., currently Kracie Ltd., and chairman of Japan Airlines, died in December 2021 at the age of 99, people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Japanese companies are speeding up efforts to utilize cargo planes to tackle the so-called 2024 problem of possible logistics service disruptions due to new overtime rules for truck drivers.時事通信社 による

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Tuesday declined a request by senior party lawmaker Ryu Shionoya to review a penalty given to him over a high-profile political funding scandal.時事通信社 による

Japan's internal affairs ministry on Tuesday issued administrative guidance to Fujitsu Ltd. over a fresh problem with a subsidiary's My Number-linked certificate issuance system.時事通信社 による

The number of countries slated to build their own pavilions for the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city of Osaka is expected to decrease to about 40, Hirofumi Yoshimura, governor of Osaka Prefecture, said Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa criticized Iran's attacks against Israel in telephone talks Tuesday with her Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.時事通信社 による

Tokyo's Ueno Zoo on Tuesday began showing twin giant panda cubs in separate pens to prevent them from hurting each other.時事通信社 による

Government-backed Japan Investment Corp.'s tender offer for Japanese semiconductor materials maker JSR Corp. ended Tuesday.時事通信社 による

South Korea's Foreign Ministry protested Japan's renewed claim on the South Korean-controlled Sea of Japan islets on Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Japan's welfare ministry said Tuesday that it will examine the possible impact of changing the rule of reducing "kosei nenkin" public pension benefits for working pensioners with certain levels of income.時事通信社 による

The Japanese communications ministry on Tuesday issued a fresh administrative guidance to LY Corp., operator of the Line messaging app and Yahoo! Japan internet portal, over breaches of personal information.時事通信社 による

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. and Konica Minolta Inc. are set to start discussing a business tie-up for products including multifunction printers.時事通信社 による

Ailing semiconductor maker Kioxia Holdings Corp. may go public by the end of the year, it was learned Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Japanese writer Osamu Soda, known for his "Bokura" series of novels featuring junior or senior high school students, died of pneumonia at a hospital in the central Japan city of Nagoya on April 8. He was 95.時事通信社 による

Saga Governor Yoshinori Yamaguchi said Tuesday that the southwestern Japan prefecture has no plan to host a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants.時事通信社 による

Japan's House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill aimed at introducing in the country a system that allows divorced parents to share custody of their children.時事通信社 による

The official campaign period for by-elections for the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Japanese parliament, started in Tokyo and the two prefectures of Shimane and Nagasaki on Tuesday.時事通信社 による

A pure gold tea bowl that was stolen last week while being showcased in an event at a department store in Tokyo has been found at an antique shop in the Japanese capital, police said.時事通信社 による

Finance ministers from Japan, the United States and South Korea are expected to hold their first trilateral meeting on the sidelines of a Group of 20 meeting in Washington this week, it was learned Monday.時事通信社 による

The 2025 World Exposition in Osaka is seen serving as a catalyst for economic growth in the Kansai region including the western Japan city, Masayoshi Matsumoto, chairman of the Kansai Economic Federation, a local business lobby, said in a recent interview.時事通信社 による

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga visited the disaster-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan on Monday to inspect progress on the release of tritium-containing treated water from the plant into the sea.時事通信社 による

Nine countries and regions, including Japan, Russia and China, started annual talks of the North Pacific Fisheries Commission in the city of Osaka, western Japan, on Monday to discuss controls for saury fishing amid continuing poor catches.時事通信社 による

Three private-sector organizations are calling on Genkai, Saga Prefecture, to accept a "literature survey" to examine its suitability for hosting a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear plants, it was learned Monday.時事通信社 による

A volunteer helping people in the quake-hit Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, is trying to save some used goods reminiscent of old days in the area before they are dumped as disaster waste.時事通信社 による

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Monday that it has started fuel loading at the idled No. 7 reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government plans to impose fines equal to 20pctof related domestic revenue under an envisaged bill to prevent monopolies of smartphone apps and other products by technology giants, people familiar with the matter said Monday.時事通信社 による