The Japanese government decided Friday to extend the deployment of Self-Defense Forces personnel in the Middle East for one year to deal with issues including maritime piracy.時事通信社 による

Vice foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea on Friday agreed that they will communicate repeatedly to develop their countries' future-oriented relationship in a stable way, in line with last week's summit meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung.…

Honda Motor Co. on Friday lowered its full-year consolidated net profit forecast for the fiscal year ending in March 2026 to 300 billion yen from the previous projection of 420 billion yen.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Friday apologized after the Supreme Court ruled the government reductions of welfare benefits to be unlawful.時事通信社 による

Japan's industry ministry said Friday it will gradually increase subsidies to oil wholesalers to prevent turmoil and radical fluctuations in gasoline prices after the planned abolition of the provisional gasoline tax surcharge of 25.1 yen per liter.時事通信社 による

Japan's Fiscal System Council, which advises the finance minister, proposed at a subcommittee meeting on Friday that the government considers sales of minimum access rice for staple food as long as they do not affect markets.時事通信社 による

Russian authorities have issued a navigational warning for planned drills near Shikotan, one of the four Russian-held northwestern Pacific islands claimed by Tokyo, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara told a press conference on Friday.時事通信社 による

Hussain Al-Shahristani, president of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, expressed concern at a press conference in Tokyo on Friday about U.S. President Donald Trump's order to resume nuclear tests.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said that her government plans to withdraw single-fiscal-year targets for turning the primary balance at the central and local governments into a surplus, at a House of Representatives Budget Committee meeting on Friday.時事通信社 による

A group of middle-ranking officers from the Japanese Self-Defense Forces visited a Chinese army facility as part of an exchange program between the two Asian neighbors' defense personnel, it was learned Friday.時事通信社 による

Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund said Friday that it earned 14,447.7 billion yen in investment profit in the July-September period thanks to higher stock prices at home and abroad.時事通信社 による

A high court in Japan ruled Friday that the July 20 House of Councillors election was held "in a state of unconstitutionality" in terms of vote-value disparities between prefectural constituencies, which reached a maximum of 3.13 times.時事通信社 による

Japan's Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Friday it has selected 142 artisans with excellence in craft as contemporary master craftspeople who lead their respective areas.時事通信社 による

Japan's Financial Services Agency said Friday that it will support a pilot project by three major domestic banks to jointly issue stablecoins, a crypto asset backed by legal tender.時事通信社 による

The average number of new influenza cases per regularly monitored medical institution in Japan in the week through Sunday stood at 14.90, exceeding the alert level of 10, the health ministry said Friday.時事通信社 による

A senior official of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA, has said that the war in the Gaza Strip is "not over" despite a ceasefire deal between Islamic group Hamas and Israel.時事通信社 による

Toyota Motor Corp. will review over the next year its program to build a battery plant for electric vehicles in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, due to a slowdown in global EV demand, Fukuoka Governor Seitaro Hattori said Friday.時事通信社 による

A team at Kyoto University's Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, or CiRA, has succeeded in creating component cells for the thymus using human induced pluripotent stem cells.時事通信社 による

Household spending in Japan in September rose 1.8pctfrom a year before in inflation-adjusted real terms, reflecting higher expenditures on automobiles as well as education and entertainment, government data showed Friday.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Friday that her government will support domestic production of next-generation semiconductors.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi held a study session at the prime minister's official residence from around 3 a.m. Friday to prepare for questions in her first parliamentary budget committee meeting as prime minister later that day.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Friday instructed a government panel to start a study to revise the economic security promotion law.時事通信社 による

Police have arrested an elementary school teacher in the western Japan prefecture of Okayama, marking the seventh and final arrest in a group of teachers who shared voyeuristic videos of schoolgirls on social media.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government is considering appointing Masazumi Wakatabe, who served as Bank of Japan deputy governor when then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe promoted his "Abenomics" reflationary policy mix, as a private member of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, informed sources have said.時事通信社 による

Japanese office and household goods seller Askul Corp. said Thursday it will fully resume the service of its office supplies shopping website "Askul" for corporate customers as soon as early December, following a suspension caused by a cyberattack.時事通信社 による

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its new coalition partner, Nippon Ishin no Kai ()削除, agreed Thursday to launch five panels to implement their policy agreement.時事通信社 による

The 38th Tokyo International Film Festival has concluded with "Palestine 36," directed by Annemarie Jacir, winning the Tokyo Grand Prix, the highest prize, in the competition section.時事通信社 による

LY Corp. said Thursday that it will ban game software being listed on its flea market website Yahoo! Japan Flea Market for sale at a higher price than the retail price until about a month after its release.時事通信社 による

Seven guns made by Tetsuya Yamagami, charged with the murder of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, were all lethal, a police witness said at Nara District Court on Thursday.時事通信社 による

A Japanese court found on Thursday that the July 20 election for the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament, was held "in a state of unconstitutionality" because of large vote-value disparities.時事通信社 による

The Tokyo metropolitan government's board of education on Thursday drafted an outline of proposed guidelines to help school teachers respond to unreasonable demands from parents and guardians, and presented it to an expert panel.時事通信社 による

Japan's economy is projected to have shrunk for the first time in six quarters in July-September, hit by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs, private think tanks said.時事通信社 による

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party will propose that the government quadruple its aid for the country's content industry to around 100 billion yen, it was learned Thursday.時事通信社 による

Osaka District Court on Thursday sentenced a 25-year-old man to four years and six months in prison for swindling 1.45 billion yen in a real estate scam in the busy Minami area in Osaka, western Japan.時事通信社 による

Nissan Motor Co. said Thursday that it fell into the red in April-September for the first time in five years, weighed down by higher U.S. tariffs imposed by the administration of President Donald Trump, as well as lackluster sales in Japan and the United States.時事通信社 による

Japanese police have arrested a man for allegedly having a 12-year-old Thai girl work at his massage shop in Tokyo, in a suspected human trafficking case involving sexual exploitation of a child.時事通信社 による

Tokyo police have arrested the head of a fraud group believed to be linked to hundreds of fraud cases in Japan, along with six related people.時事通信社 による

Japan's Ministry of Finance kept its economic assessments for all 11 regions unchanged in a quarterly report released Thursday, citing solid private consumption and reduced uncertainty following the Japan-U.S. tariff agreement.時事通信社 による

High school students from Sendai, a northeastern Japan city hit by a massive tsunami in 2011, emphasized the importance of passing on disaster lessons to future generations and the significance of disaster prevention education at a meeting at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi vowed Thursday to take strict action if a problem similar to the "slush funds" scandal occurs in her ruling Liberal Democratic Party again.時事通信社 による

A Japanese Fisheries Agency panel has approved an expansion of the fiscal 2025 fishing quota for the Japanese common squid by 1,800 tons following bigger-than-expected catches.時事通信社 による

Nissan Motor Co. said Thursday that it will sell its headquarters building in the city of Yokohama, south of Tokyo, for 97 billion yen as part of its turnaround efforts.時事通信社 による

Japan's Mitsubishi Motors Corp. has reported a group net loss of 9.2 billion yen for April-September, against the year-before profit of 37.9 billion yen, due mainly to high tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration.時事通信社 による

Honda Motor Co. has unveiled to the press its new hybrid system for large SUVs, with an eye on the North American market, where large vehicles are in strong demand and hybrid vehicles are popular.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi held her first phone talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday, and vowed that Japan will continue to support Ukraine's recovery and reconstruction from Russian aggression.時事通信社 による

Nippon Steel Corp. said Wednesday that it expects to incur a consolidated net loss of 60 billion yen for the fiscal year through next March, widening from the previous forecast of 40 billion yen.時事通信社 による

Japan's Social Democratic Party is on the verge of losing its only seat in the House of Representatives, the all-important lower chamber of the Diet, as its deputy head has expressed his intention to leave the party.時事通信社 による

Scientists and scholars from around the globe demanded in a joint declaration Wednesday that nuclear powers never use the weapons of mass destruction.時事通信社 による

Wasteful and ineffective use of taxpayer money by the Japanese government in fiscal 2024 totaled about 54,081 million yen in 319 projects, according to a report the Board of Audit of Japan submitted to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Kansai Electric Power Co. said Wednesday that it has started a survey to consider building a new nuclear reactor in the central Japan town of Mihama, Fukui Prefecture, which already hosts the company's Mihama nuclear plant.時事通信社 による