Four Chinese coast guard ships sailed in Japanese territorial waters off the Senkaku Islands in the city of Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, on Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Japan's supply-demand gap, or the excess of potential supply capacity over demand in the economy, in January-March was minus 1.4 pct, or a demand shortfall of about 8 trillion yen on an annualized basis, according to revised estimates released by the Cabinet Office on Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Japan delivered its first shipment of mine-clearing vehicles to Ukraine on Tuesday as part of 91 billion yen in grant aid aimed at assisting the country's reconstruction.時事通信社 による

Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department on Tuesday arrested a 29-year-old Chinese national for alleged vandalism at Yasukuni Shrine in the Japanese capital earlier this year.時事通信社 による

Tokyo Disney Resort operator Oriental Land Co. said Tuesday that it will launch Disney cruises in Japan in fiscal 2028.時事通信社 による

The Bank of Japan began a two-day session with bond market participants Tuesday to hear opinions on a planned reduction in its purchases of Japanese government bonds.時事通信社 による

Planetarium operators in Japan aim to make their shows star attractions again by staging novel events such as mystery-solving games and yoga.時事通信社 による

U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor transport aircraft based at Yokota Air Base in Tokyo will take part in a Japan-U.S. defense exercise in the Kyushu region of southwestern Japan later this month, the Defense Ministry's Ground Staff Office said Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Renho's third-place finish in Sunday's race has sent shock waves through her former party, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan.時事通信社 による

Japanese trading house Itochu Corp. said Tuesday that it has invested an undisclosed amount in ZeroAvia Inc., a U.S. maker of hydrogen-electric engines for aircraft.時事通信社 による

Dozens of Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force divers are suspected of fraudulently receiving allowances, Defense Ministry sources said Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Kirayaka Bank said Tuesday that President Koji Kawagoe, 60, will step down after the regional bank, based in the northeastern Japan city of Yamagata, suffered its second straight year of losses.時事通信社 による

More Japanese companies should venture into the Indian market, given a considerable improvement in its business environment, Yoshiyuki Enomoto, president of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry in India, said in a recent interview with Jiji Press.時事通信社 による

Japan's National Police Agency issued Tuesday a seven-nation joint alert against attacks by a Chinese government-backed hacker group.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida instructed relevant ministers of his cabinet Tuesday to draw up a draft plan by year-end to prepare hospital ships.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday he hopes to meet on July 17 with plaintiffs of damages suits over forced sterilizations conducted under the now-defunct eugenic protection law.時事通信社 による

Inadequate lookout and altitude control led to the April crash of two Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopters during night training off a remote Tokyo island, an MSDF report said Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi on Tuesday condemned Russia's massive missile attacks on Ukraine the previous day.時事通信社 による

Japan's dependency on particular countries for imports of semiconductors and rare metals is high compared with other Group of Seven major powers, the Japanese government said in a white paper released Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Japan's Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission raided the home of an MUFG Bank employee who allegedly leaked insider information, as well as the head office of the major Japanese bank and other places in May, it was learned Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Three major Japanese automakers respectively reported new vehicle sales declines in China in January-June, with their combined sales in the six-month period falling 12.9pctfrom a year earlier.時事通信社 による

Japan should immediately dismantle structural discrimination and inequality stemming from social norms, a member of the U.N. Human Rights Council's Working Group on Business and Human Rights said in a recent interview with Jiji Press.時事通信社 による

The number of deaths under investigation over possible links to Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co.'s supplements containing "beni koji" red fermented rice reached 97, Japan's health ministry said Monday.時事通信社 による

Two years after the fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the western city of Nara, the date for the first hearing of a trial of his alleged killer has not been set yet.時事通信社 による

Yukihiko Imasaki, justice of the Japanese Supreme Court, is expected to be named chief justice of the top court shortly to replace Saburo Tokura, who will retire on Aug. 10, people familiar with the matter said Monday.時事通信社 による

Representatives from a record 115 countries plus the European Union are slated to attend this year's peace memorial ceremony in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, the municipal government said Monday.時事通信社 による

Japan's education ministry said Monday that it plans to make its national achievement test for junior high school third-graders and elementary school sixth-graders fully online, starting in fiscal 2027.時事通信社 による

The Bank of Japan upgraded its economic assessments for two of the country's nine regions and lowered them for two others, in a quarterly report released Monday.時事通信社 による

Resonac Holdings Corp. said Monday it will set up a consortium comprising 10 Japanese and U.S. semiconductor materials and equipment companies in Silicon Valley to develop technologies for the back-end process in semiconductor manufacturing.時事通信社 による

An expert panel of Japan's Environment Ministry on Monday approved the idea of allowing the use of rifles to hunt bears under some conditions in residential areas.時事通信社 による

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party still has a sense of crisis over the next general election even after Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, supported by the LDP, won a landslide victory in Sunday's gubernatorial election by beating rivals including one backed by opposition parties.時事通信社 による

Japanese Environment Minister Shintaro Ito on Monday met again with Minamata disease sufferers after the microphone was abruptly switched off at a previous meeting while such people were speaking.時事通信社 による

Flowers and prayers were offered for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday, which marked the second anniversary of his gunning down during a stump speech in the western Japan city of Nara.時事通信社 による

The number of Japanese Self-Defense Forces personnel hired in fiscal 2023 totaled 9,959, only 51pctof the Defense Ministry's target, the ministry announced Monday.時事通信社 による

Japan and the Philippines signed on Monday a reciprocal access agreement to facilitate visits to each other's country by the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the Philippine military.時事通信社 による

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te plans to appoint Lee Yi-yang, former vice president of the Examination Yuan, as the next de facto ambassador to Japan, a source has said.時事通信社 による

Japan posted 2,849.9 billion yen in current account surplus in May, up 41.8pctfrom a year before and the largest for the month since comparable statistics became available in 1985, Finance Ministry data showed Monday.時事通信社 による

Japan's inflation-adjusted real wage index declined 1.4pctfrom a year before in May, extending its record declining streak to a 26th month, the labor ministry said Monday.時事通信社 による

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike is bound to face a real test over policies related to child-rearing and education, following her winning of a third term in Sunday's closely watched gubernatorial election in the Japanese capital.時事通信社 による

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The Liberal Democratic Party suffered a major defeat in Sunday's by-elections for the Tokyo metropolitan assembly, chiefly reflecting a backlash caused by a high-profile slush funds scandal involving factions at the ruling party in national politics.時事通信社 による

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike is certain to win a third term after polls closed in Sunday's gubernatorial election.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Sunday that he will continue to work to revise the Constitution, fully overcome deflation and strengthen the Japan-U.S. alliance, as pursued by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot dead two years ago.時事通信社 による

Temperatures rose to 40 degrees Celsius in the central Japan city of Shizuoka at 1:18 p.m. Sunday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.時事通信社 による

As Monday marks the second anniversary of the fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the Unification Church finds itself in a difficult position as the incident shed light on the religious group's controversial practices, such as collecting massive donations from its followers.時事通信社 による

Japan's Defense Ministry plans to shortly release the results of its internal investigation into a series of harassment cases and punish officials involved, government sources said Sunday.時事通信社 による

Polling stations opened on Sunday morning for Tokyo's gubernatorial election, in which a record 56 candidates have filed their candidacies and promoted their policies on child-rearing support, administrative reform and disaster prevention.時事通信社 による

How did Japanese society, which was supposed to have transformed into a democracy after World War II, justify discrimination against people with disabilities and openly endorse eugenics?時事通信社 による

On the eve of Sunday's gubernatorial election in Tokyo, candidates made their final campaign pitches on Saturday, giving speeches before crowds in bustling areas and elsewhere.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer agreed Saturday to promote security cooperation between their countries as they see the security of the Euro-Atlantic region and that of the Indo-Pacific region as inseparable.時事通信社 による