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The Bank of Japan said Tuesday that unrealized loss on its holdings of Japanese government bonds ballooned to 10.5 trillion yen at the end of September from 157.1 billion yen six months before.時事通信社 による

Japan's Crown Prince Akishino admitted that explanations about the 3-billion-yen renovation of his family's residence in Tokyo's Minato Ward were inadequate, at a press conference ahead of his 58th birthday on Thursday.時事通信社 による

Toyota Motor Corp., Toyota Industries Corp. and Aisin Corp. will sell a total of nearly 10pctof Denso Corp. shares, Denso said Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Toyota Motor Corp. on Wednesday revealed that production lines at the Fujimatsu plant of wholly owned unit Toyota Auto Body Co. in Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, have been halted again.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government decided Wednesday to designate 180 sites in 25 of the country's 47 prefectures, including Hokkaido, Aichi and Hyogo, as critical to national security under a related law.時事通信社 による

Japanese tourism minister Tetsuo Saito and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday signed a memorandum of cooperation to designate 2024 as a year to promote tourism between the two countries.時事通信社 による

Nippon Life Insurance Co. said Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Nichii Holdings Co., the parent of leading Japanese nursing care provider Nichiigakkan Co. for about 210 billion yen.時事通信社 による

Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong delivered a speech in the Diet, Japan's parliament, on Wednesday, calling for deeper cooperation between his country and Japan in the areas of maritime security, information sharing and U.N. peacekeeping.時事通信社 による

The Diet, Japan's parliament, on Wednesday passed the government's fiscal 2023 supplementary budget to partially finance a new economic policy package.時事通信社 による

A regional headquartes of the Japan Coast Guard received a report around 2:47 p.m. Wednesday that an Osprey transport aircraft had crashed off the island of Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan.時事通信社 による

A group of creditors led by Japan and others is expected to reach a broad agreement on debt restructuring for cash-strapped Sri Lanka, it was learned Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Nihon University plans to disband its American football club following a drug scandal involving some of its members, informed sources said Wednesday.時事通信社 による

An internal network of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, has been hit by unauthorized access, it was learned Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Hiroshima Governor Hidehiko Yuzaki on Tuesday called for the establishment of alternative security systems that do not rely on nuclear deterrence, in order to realize a world without nuclear weapons.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government intends to strengthen measures against male host clubs that charge female customers extortionate fees beyond their payment capacity, make them heavily indebted and force them into prostitution in order to collect the debt.時事通信社 による

Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven major democracies, in a statement issued Wednesday, welcomed the recent pause in the fighting between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip and sought the extension of the pause.時事通信社 による

Toyota Motor Corp. resumed the production of its Noah and Voxy minivans in Japan on Wednesday after confirming that procedural flaws related to the vehicles will not pose any safety problems.時事通信社 による

Russia said Tuesday that it will not participate in the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city of Osaka, citing a lack of communication with the organizer.時事通信社 による

Companies in Japan raised or plan to raise the average monthly pay per employee by 3.2 pct, or 9,437 yen, in 2023, a labor ministry survey has shown.時事通信社 による

Japanese Ambassador to China Hideo Tarumi met Tuesday with a Japanese employee of drugmaker Astellas Pharma Inc. who has been detained in China since March this year on suspicion of espionage, diplomatic sources said.時事通信社 による

Nippon Life Insurance Co. will acquire Nichii Holdings Co., the parent of Japan's leading nursing care provider Nichiigakkan Co., for about 210 billion yen, it was learned Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Japan's culture ministry said Tuesday that it will recommend that a set of photographs and films taken after the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima be added to UNESCO's Memory of the World register.時事通信社 による

The prefectural government of Ibaraki, northeast of Tokyo, published Tuesday the results of simulations showing how radioactive materials would be dispersed if an accident occurred at Japan Atomic Power Co.'s Tokai No. 2 nuclear plant.時事通信社 による

A survey showed Tuesday that 159 people have experienced sexual abuse in the Jehovah's Witnesses religious organization in Japan.時事通信社 による

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako welcomed Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong and his wife at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Japan's government and ruling coalition are considering a new consumption tax exemption system for foreign visitors to the country following a series of illicit resale cases, informed sources said Tuesday.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government and food industries are hurriedly taking steps to minimize the impact of bird flu before the infectious disease rages across the country this season.時事通信社 による

The proportions of elementary, junior high and high school students with less-than-normal visual acuity have reached record highs, a fiscal 2022 education ministry survey showed Tuesday.時事通信社 による

An expert panel under Japan's communications ministry on Tuesday released a report on measures to combat defamation on social media, stressing the need for guidelines on deleting defamatory posts to ensure transparency.時事通信社 による

Tokyo District Court sentenced an executive of a Japanese nonprofit organization to eight months in prison Tuesday for unauthorized brokering of organ transplants.時事通信社 による

Tomoko Yoshino, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo, on Tuesday stressed the need to reflect higher personnel costs in sales prices in order to continue wage hikes.時事通信社 による

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno on Tuesday warned that a North Korean military spy satellite launched last week could pose a threat to regional security.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government will swiftly present a "full picture" of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, including not only venue construction costs but also expenses directly related to preparations for the event, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said Tuesday.時事通信社 による

An 83-year-old Japanese hibakusha atomic bomb survivor called for the abolition of nuclear weapons at an international conference Monday, describing them as "an absolute evil" that human beings cannot accept.時事通信社 による

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and her Mozambique counterpart, Veronica Macamo, have agreed to cooperate to resume the development of liquefied natural gas in the African country.時事通信社 による

The U.N. Security Council at an emergency meeting Monday failed to take concerted action against North Korea's recent launch of a military reconnaissance satellite due to opposition by China and Russia.時事通信社 による

A 19-year-old university student is taking on the challenge of saving a railway in northeastern Japan facing the possibility of being closed down due to the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis and natural disasters.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government has said that it will need to spend about 84 billion yen for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka besides the already announced venue construction costs.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prince Hitachi, the younger brother of Emperor Emeritus Akihito and uncle of Emperor Naruhito, celebrated his 88th birthday on Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong agreed Monday to upgrade their countries' relationship to a comprehensive strategic partnership as their diplomatic relations mark 50 years this year.時事通信社 による

Japanese Princess Kako, the second daughter of Crown Prince Akishino, said in a statement Monday that she felt the deep ties between Japan and Peru during her recent official visit to the South American nation.時事通信社 による

Japan's Supreme Court said Monday that it has set new rules for the permanent preservation of court records as "assets shared by the people."時事通信社 による

Industrial labor groups that make up the Japan Council of Metalworkers' Unions, or JCM, plan to demand a pay scale increase of at least 10,000 yen per month in next year's "shunto" spring wage negotiations, informed sources said Wednesday.時事通信社 による

A third member of Nihon University's American football club was arrested Monday for allegedly buying illegal drugs, investigative source said.時事通信社 による

Japan and India can build the foundations of an Indo-Pacific economic zone through their cooperation in the semiconductor field, a senior official at an Indian think tank has suggested in a recent interview with Jiji Press.時事通信社 による

Restaurant sales in Japan in October rose 8.8pctfrom a year before as the number of customers increased amid favorable weather, industry data showed Monday.時事通信社 による

The family of a Takarazuka Revue member who died in September has urged the Japanese musical theater company to recognize power harassment by senior members and overwork behind the member's death, a lawyer for the bereaved family said Monday.時事通信社 による

The recent trend for Japanese companies to scrap shareholder perks is reversing, a private-sector survey has shown.時事通信社 による

Japanese information technology giant LY Corp. said Monday that more than 400,000 personal information items may have been compromised by a third-party breach of its system.時事通信社 による

A Japanese court started on Monday hearings to determine a sentence for a man accused of the July 2019 arson attack on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio, which killed more than 30 people.時事通信社 による