Bank of Japan policymakers Friday voted to reduce the central bank's purchase amount of Japanese government bonds, the BOJ said.時事通信社 による

The suspected mastermind in a high-profile incident in which the bodies of a Tokyo man and his wife were found in Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, in April and another person believed to be involved in the case were arrested Friday for allegedly murdering the couple.時事通信社 による

Japan's parliament enacted legislation on Friday to create a new skill development program for foreign workers to ease serious labor shortages in the country.時事通信社 による

Japanese beverage maker Kirin Holdings Co. plans to take full control of cosmetics and dietary supplement maker Fancl Corp., people familiar with the matter said Friday.時事通信社 による

LY Corp. said Thursday that it will end its Line Pay smartphone payment service in Japan by the end of April next year.時事通信社 による

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed his gratitude for Japan's "unwavering solidarity" with his war-torn country in a post on his X social media account Thursday.時事通信社 による

Leaders of the Group of Seven major powers Thursday reached a basic agreement to extend 50 billion dollars in loans to Ukraine by year-end utilizing proceeds from frozen Russian assets.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed on Thursday that their governments will hold talks within 24 hours in the event of a military attack on Ukraine.時事通信社 による

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has abandoned its plan to submit a draft of constitutional revision during the current Diet session ending on June 23.時事通信社 による

The tenure of Natsuo Yamaguchi, 71, as leader of Komeito, the coalition partner of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, may be extended, given the possibility that the next general election will be held this autumn, party sources said Thursday.時事通信社 による

Japan's House of Representatives on Thursday adopted a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.時事通信社 による

Tokyo District Court on Thursday revoked welfare benefit cuts between 2013 and 2015 for plaintiffs in the Japanese capital, finding that the government's decision to lower the standard amounts of benefits went beyond its scope of discretion.時事通信社 による

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Thursday that it has completed safety inspections 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

Honda Motor Co. said Thursday that it will establish a joint company with general trader Mitsubishi Corp. for operations related to electric vehicle batteries.時事通信社 による

The idea of opening up the ride-hailing market has won support from 37.6pctof people in Japan, a Jiji Press survey has shown.時事通信社 による

Logistics companies in Japan are racking their brains to come up with ways to reduce parcel redeliveries as they face serious shortages of truck drivers due to new overtime regulations that took effect in April.時事通信社 による

Japan's House of Councillors committee passed on Thursday a bill to create a new skill development program for foreign workers to ease serious labor shortages in the country.時事通信社 による

U.S. film studio Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. said Wednesday that it has acquired Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the seventh-largest theater chain in North America.時事通信社 による

Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department on Thursday sent prosecutors papers on a former Singaporean diplomat on suspicion of secretly photographing a naked boy at a public bath in the Japanese capital.時事通信社 による

Tokyo police have arrested Tomohiro Konno, a former member of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament, for allegedly lending his name as a lawyer to other people and allowing them to do legal work, in violation of the attorney law.時事通信社 による

Japan Post Co. announced Thursday that it will raise postage rates for letters and postcards in October.時事通信社 による

Public prosecutors Thursday demanded a prison term of two years and six months for the former head of a "kodomoen" kindergarten-nursery hybrid in central Japan over a 2022 incident in which a 3-year-old girl died of heatstroke after being left in the school's bus.時事通信社 による

The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's cabinet in June dropped 2.3 percentage points from the previous month to 16.4 pct, the worst level since the ruling Liberal Democratic Party returned to power in 2012, a Jiji Press public opinion survey showed Thursday.時事通信社 による

Iconic test trains nicknamed "Doctor Yellow," used to monitor conditions of tracks and overhead wires for Japan's Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen bullet train lines while traveling, are set to retire due to their aging, to the disappointment of train lovers in the country, including children.時事通信社 による

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi on Thursday avoided commenting on a media report that Japan secretly came in contact with North Korea in Mongolia last month.時事通信社 による

Honda Motor Co. unveiled a new electric commercial minivehicle called N-Van e: on Thursday.時事通信社 による

The number of people who got stranded on mountains in Japan rose to 3,568 in 2023, the highest level since the statistics began in 1961, National Police Agency data showed Thursday.時事通信社 による

A 32-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering Japanese chef Wataru Kakiuchi in Vancouver, local police said Wednesday.時事通信社 による

A sharp increase in wildfires in Russia's Siberia region may cause a substantial number of deaths in Japan and China from air pollution, as well as hefty economic losses in the two neighboring countries, according to a simulation run by a Japanese team of researchers.時事通信社 による

After more than a century, the story of the arrival of baseball in Japan is about to be revised.時事通信社 による

Japan is considering hosting an international conference in autumn 2025 on mine removal and other measures for the reconstruction of Ukraine, which is fighting Russia's military aggression, government sources said Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Opposition party Nippon Ishin no Kai ()削除 decided on Wednesday not to field its own candidate in the July 7 Tokyo gubernatorial election.時事通信社 による

The International Criminal Court is considering establishing an Asian regional hub office in Tokyo, President Tomoko Akane told a press conference in the Japanese capital Wednesday.時事通信社 による

The number of accounts for the NISA tax exemption program for small-lot investors as of the end of March increased by 1.86 million from three months before, the Financial Services Agency said Wednesday.時事通信社 による

A leukemia drug has curbed the progression of neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in over half of patients in a clinical trial in Japan, a research team said Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Japan Nuclear Fuel Development Co., which conducts research and development on nuclear fuel, has falsified inspection records at its facilities over a long period, it was learned Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Japan's ruling and opposition parties are unlikely to reach an agreement during the current parliamentary session over measures to secure a sufficient number of Imperial Family members, sources said Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Popular rakugo storyteller Katsura Zakoba died of asthma on Wednesday at his home in the city of Suita, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan. He was 76.時事通信社 による

An industrial city in central Japan is working to help children from overseas to study at school and learn the Japanese language, as such kids increase along with foreign workers in the country.時事通信社 による

An education ministry survey showed Wednesday that 43pctof Japanese municipalities as of fiscal 2023 had offered free school lunches or had planned to do so by the March 2024 end of the fiscal year, mainly to help child-rearing households reduce their financial burdens.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida left for Puglia, southern Italy, on Wednesday afternoon to attend a three-day summit of the Group of Seven major countries starting Thursday.時事通信社 による

Sales of beer and quasi-beer products in Japan in May increased 1pctby volume from a year earlier, up for the second consecutive month, data from four major brewers showed Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike announced Wednesday that she will run in the July 7 gubernatorial election in the Japanese capital for a third term.時事通信社 による

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan on Wednesday agreed that political party leaders will hold a parliamentary debate session on June 19, the first such talks since Prime Minister Fumio Kishida took office in October 2021.時事通信社 による

The Diet, Japan's parliament, passed into law on Wednesday a bill to promote competition over smartphone apps.時事通信社 による

Japanese police on Wednesday arrested two women on suspicion of murdering a 17-year-old high school girl in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido.時事通信社 による

Producer prices in Japan grew 2.4pctfrom a year before in May to hit the highest level on record, mainly because materials and energy prices stayed high due to the yen's weakening, Bank of Japan data showed Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Giant panda Xiang Xiang, who was born in Japan in 2017 and returned to China in February last year, turned 7 years old Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Japan ranked last among the Group of Seven major industrialized nations in terms of gender equality in 2024 despite improvement from the previous year, the World Economic Forum said Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Embattled Japanese chipmaker Kioxia Holdings Corp. is planning to receive 100 billion yen in additional loans from creditor banks, it has been learned.時事通信社 による