Foreign ministers from, Japan, China, South Korea and Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states affirmed Saturday that the Chiang Mai initiative, a regional currency swap arrangement for addressing financial crises, will be utilized in time of natural disasters as well.時事通信社 による

The European Medicines Agency has said that its committee for assessing medicines recommended "not granting a marketing authorization" to Alzheimer's drug lecanemab.時事通信社 による

Japan is suffering from a scarcity of rice as quality issues stemming from the heat wave last year has led to a decline in distribution.時事通信社 による

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and her Norwegian counterpart Espen Eide, meeting in the Laotian capital of Vientiane, have agreed to cooperate for safety of the Paris Olympic Games following the vandalism, such as arson, that hit France's high-speed railway network early Friday.時事通信社 による

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee unanimously decided Saturday to register Sado Island Gold Mines in central Japan as a World Cultural Heritage site.時事通信社 による

The Paris Olympic Games fully kicked off Friday with an opening ceremony featuring a parade of boats carrying athletes from over 200 countries and regions on the Seine River.時事通信社 による

Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday discussed aid to Ukraine, including through the use of frozen Russian assets.時事通信社 による

Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies reaffirmed Friday their past agreement warning against excessive foreign exchange market fluctuations.時事通信社 による

Japan's Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. said Friday that it has failed to report to the health ministry some products containing its "beni koji" red fermented rice that were supplied to five companies.時事通信社 による

Two startups from Japan's Fukushima Prefecture exhibited their self-developed drones at this year's Farnborough International Airshow, held Monday to Friday in Farnborough, Hampshire, southern Britain.時事通信社 による

Toyota Motor Corp. is planning to build a plant in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, to produce lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, informed sources said Friday.時事通信社 による

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and her South Korean counterpart, Cho Tae-yul, on Friday affirmed the importance of cooperation to maintain and strengthen a free and open Indo-Pacific region.時事通信社 による

Hyogo Governor Motohiko Saito, facing power harassment and other allegations, vowed Friday to serve out his current term through July 2025.時事通信社 による

Regulators Friday concluded that the No. 2 reactor of Japan Atomic Power Co.'s nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, does not meet new safety standards.時事通信社 による

Japan's transport ministry said Friday that 14 air traffic controllers will be added from Thursday at five busy airports following a deadly aircraft collision at Tokyo's Haneda Airport in January.時事通信社 による

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corp. and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp. said Friday that they will end their "dial 177" weather information service at the end of March 2025.時事通信社 による

New COVID-19 cases reported from about 5,000 regularly monitored medical institutions across Japan have increased for the 11th consecutive week, health ministry data showed Friday.時事通信社 による

The average life expectancy for both Japanese men and women rose for the first time in three years in 2023, possibly reflecting a drop in fatality rates for COVID-19 patients, a health ministry survey showed Friday.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government decided on Friday to set up a task force to eradicate discrimination against disabled people.時事通信社 による

South Korea is now going to accept designation of forced labor-linked gold mines on Japan's Sado Island as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site, a senior official of the country's Foreign Ministry said Friday.時事通信社 による

The mayor of the city of Ginowan in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, was found dead at a hotel in the Akasaka area in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Friday.時事通信社 による

A memorial ceremony was held in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, on Friday to mourn for the 19 people killed in a knife attack on Tsukui Yamayuri-en, a prefectural care home for people with disabilities, eight years ago.時事通信社 による

Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies on Thursday adopted a statement for the early implementation of digital services taxes, apparently with information technology behemoths in mind.時事通信社 による

Japan's Justice Ministry has decided to expand the scope of cases in which multiple volunteer probation officers are assigned to watch over a person on probation, it was learned Friday.時事通信社 による

The Bank of Japan is set to deliberate whether to hike its policy interest rate again at a two-day meeting from Tuesday, after the central bank ended its negative rate policy in March.時事通信社 による

Five people have gone missing amid severe rain in the northeastern Japan prefectures of Yamagata and Akita, including two police officers responding to a distress call, police said Friday.時事通信社 による

Japan's national soccer team for women, known as Nadeshiko Japan, lost 1-2 to Spain on Thursday in its first group stage match at the Paris Olympic Games.時事通信社 による

Japanese furniture retailer Nitori Holdings Co. opened a store at a shopping mall in West Jakarta on Thursday, its first outlet in Indonesia.時事通信社 による

History shows that nations that enjoyed success in their home Olympics tend to continue riding the medal wave in the next quadrennial event, boosting hopes that Japan will do the same in the Paris Olympics.時事通信社 による

Core consumer prices in central Tokyo rose 2.2pctin July from a year before, climbing for the 35th consecutive month, Japan's internal affairs ministry said Friday.時事通信社 による

The Brazilian government issued its first formal apology Thursday for its persecution of Japanese immigrants during World War II.時事通信社 による

The annual amount of money collected under Japan's "furusato nozei" hometown donation system is believed to have exceeded 1 trillion yen in fiscal 2023 for the first time ever, sources said Thursday.時事通信社 による

Japanese beverage group Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. said Thursday that it will quit the restaurant business by selling its "ryotei" high-end restaurant operator Nadaman Co. to food service company Onodera Group Co.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government decided at a ministerial meeting on Thursday to lift the ban on double trailers on some sections of Tokyo's Metropolitan Expressway, the Hanshin Expressway in western Japan and the Hokkaido Expressway in northernmost Japan in September.時事通信社 による

Japan Post Co. on Thursday reported an operating loss of 89.6 billion yen from its mainline postal business in fiscal 2023, even bigger than the previous year's 21.1 billion yen.時事通信社 による

Japan's House of Representatives said Thursday that its speaker, Fukushiro Nukaga, will visit India for five days from Monday.時事通信社 による

The Ground Self-Defense Force is considering establishing a firing range on Tokyo's Minamitorishima, a remote island in the Pacific, for surface-to-ship missile training, GSDF Chief of Staff Gen. Yasunori Morishita said Thursday.時事通信社 による

A limited-time bar featuring cocktails using whisky and gin from Nikka Whisky Distilling Co. will open in Tokyo in August.時事通信社 による

Now that the Japanese government has decided on a 50-yen minimum hourly wage hike for fiscal 2024, small businesses in the country fear they will be heavily burdened with higher labor costs.時事通信社 による

Skateboarding has been gaining attention in Japan since the street sport was selected as an official event at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, with a growing number of skateboard parks opening across the country.時事通信社 による

Restaurant sales in Japan in June climbed 12.4pctfrom a year before, reflecting a rise in the number of people going out due to the late start of this year's rainy season, industry data showed Thursday.時事通信社 による

An exhibition of items to prevent workers from suffering heatstroke on the job, such as protective clothing that lets air through, opened in Tokyo on Wednesday for a three-day run.時事通信社 による

The Japan Meteorological Agency on Thursday issued special warnings of heavy rain for the city of Sakata and the town of Yuza in Yamagata Prefecture, northeastern Japan.時事通信社 による

Japan's Nissan Motor Co. said Thursday that its group operating profit in April-June plunged 99.2pctfrom a year earlier to 995 million yen.時事通信社 による

Nippon Steel Corp.'s decision to end its automotive steel sheet joint venture in China with Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. reflects Japanese automakers' struggle in the Chinese electric vehicle market.時事通信社 による

Another Hyogo prefectural government employee linked to power harassment allegations against Motohiko Saito, governor of the western Japan prefecture, was found to have died, in an apparent suicide, it was learned.時事通信社 による

Japan trounced Paraguay 5-0 in its group stage opening match in the men's soccer at the Paris Olympic Games on Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Japanese "truck G-men," or inspectors who monitor working conditions in the logistics sector, have issued corrective guidance to cargo owners and prime contractors 722 times through end-June since the role was established about a year ago.時事通信社 による

Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Seven advanced democracies confirmed Wednesday that they will continue to work together to aid Ukraine in its fight against Russia's invasion.時事通信社 による

West Japan Railway Co., or JR West, said Wednesday that its 500 series Shinkansen bullet trains, which were once among the fastest trains in the world, will be retired in 2027 due to their aging.時事通信社 による