Fuji Television Network Inc. is facing management turmoil over its poor handling of a sex scandal involving popular television personality Masahiro Nakai, who has announced his retirement from show business.時事通信社 による

Japan's communications ministry said Friday that it will submit bills to parliament in late February to revise the laws on Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. and telecommunications business.時事通信社 による

Four major Japanese commercial banks said Friday that they will raise their interest rates on ordinary deposits from 0.1pctto 0.2 pct, the highest level in about 17 years, following the Bank of Japan's decision to raise its policy interest rate.時事通信社 による

Japan Airlines, or JAL, will punish President Mitsuko Tottori, Chairperson Yuji Akasaka and three other executives over a scandal in which two pilots drank more alcohol than allowed by internal rules the day before taking charge of a flight last year, company officials said Friday.時事通信社 による

The Bank of Japan's decision on Friday to raise interest rates further is expected to affect household and corporate finances.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government will strive to balance economic revitalization and fiscal consolidation, Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said in a fiscal policy speech to the Diet on Friday.時事通信社 による

A Chinese regional court held the first hearing Friday for a man indicted for stabbing to death a 10-year-old Japanese boy in Shenzhen last September.時事通信社 による

Duty-free sales at department stores in Japan in 2024 soared 85.9pctfrom the previous year, led by sales of jewelry, luxury brand goods and cosmetics amid an increase in inbound visitors and the yen's depreciation, a Japan Department Stores Association report showed Friday.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government will raise public pension benefits by 1.9pctin fiscal 2025, which begins in April, from the previous year, the third straight year of increase, the welfare ministry said Friday.時事通信社 による

The number of foreigners who entered Japan in 2024 surged 42.4pctfrom the previous year to a record 36.78 million, the Immigration Services Agency said in a preliminary report Friday.時事通信社 による

A ceremony to return a stolen Buddha statue to a Japanese temple on Tsushima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture, was held in the central South Korea city of Daejeon on Friday.時事通信社 による

Japan's Financial Services Agency said Friday that it has issued business improvement orders to car dealer Toyota Mobility Tokyo Inc. and used car dealer Good Speed Co. under the insurance business law.時事通信社 による

Narita International Airport Corp., the Japanese government and local governments agreed Friday to expand the annual quota for flight departures and arrivals at the airport near Tokyo from 300,000 a year to 340,000, effective in October.時事通信社 による

Informal job offers have been accepted by 84.3pctof job-seeking university students in Japan who plan to graduate in March, the labor and education ministries said Friday.時事通信社 による

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, in his first policy address at parliament since taking office last October, vowed Friday to bring vitality back to the country through the remodeling of the Japanese archipelago in the current Reiwa era.時事通信社 による

Japan's Mitsubishi Motors Corp. is unlikely to join the business integration talks between Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co., it was learned Friday.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government introduced Friday a fiscal 2025 budget bill featuring 115,541.5-billion-yen general-account expenditures, an all-time high recorded for the first time in two years.時事通信社 による

Japan's core consumer prices grew 2.5pctin 2024 for the third successive annual increase, although the pace slowed from the previous year's 3.1 pct, the internal affairs ministry said Friday.時事通信社 による

The Bank of Japan decided to raise interest rates at its two-day monetary policy meeting that ended Friday, taking its policy rate to a level unseen in over 16 years.時事通信社 による

U.S. federal prosecutors sought Thursday a prison term of four years and nine months and a three-year probation after the release for Ippei Mizuhara, a former interpreter for Major League Baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani, on charges including bank fraud.時事通信社 による

The Diet, Japan's parliament, convened Friday for a 150-day ordinary session, the first such session for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who leads a minority government.時事通信社 による

"Black Box Diaries," a documentary film directed by Japanese journalist Shiori Ito, received an Academy Awards nomination for documentary feature film Thursday.時事通信社 による

Japan plans to tighten its screenings of foreign companies' plans to make investment in the country, in order to address national security concerns, particularly regarding entities that may share information with foreign governments.時事通信社 による

The Naha District Public Prosecutors Office decided Thursday not to indict a U.S. Marine who had been investigated for alleged sexual assault in Okinawa Prefecture, sourthern Japan, citing insufficient evidence.時事通信社 による

Sony Group Corp. on Thursday held a media preview of Ginza Sony Park, a new commercial complex that will open in Tokyo's upscale Ginza district on Sunday.時事通信社 による

Japanese police have arrested a man for allegedly kicking a rabbit in violation of the animal protection law in Okunoshima Island in the city of Takehara in the western prefecture of Hiroshima.時事通信社 による

Fuji Media Holdings Inc., the parent of Fuji Television Network Inc., said Thursday that it has decided to set up a third-party committee to investigate a sex scandal centered around television personality Masahiro Nakai.時事通信社 による

The Bank of Japan will raise its policy interest rate to 0.5pctat a two-day policy-setting meeting through Friday, the first rate hike since last July, it was learned Thursday.時事通信社 による

A Chinese district court on Thursday sentenced a man to death over an attack on two Japanese people that left a Chinese woman dead in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, eastern China, last June, Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said.時事通信社 による

The two chambers of Japan's parliament plan to resume talks Jan. 31 on measures to secure a sufficient number of Imperial Family members.時事通信社 による

Popular Japanese television personality Masahiro Nakai announced his retirement from show business on Thursday, amid allegations of his involvement in a sex scandal that has had a major impact on the television industry and elsewhere.時事通信社 による

The Liberal Democratic Party group in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly said Thursday that 26 of its members will make corrections to their funds reports over a political money scandal involving the group.時事通信社 による

The average unit price of new condominiums put up for sale in Tokyo's densely populated 23 special wards topped 100 million yen for the second straight year in 2024, a think tank said Thursday.時事通信社 による

The Japanese Electrical, Electronic & Information Union said Thursday that its member unions will request a pay scale hike of at least 17,000 yen per month in the 2025 "shunto" spring wage negotiations.時事通信社 による

Japan's National Police Agency on Thursday released newly compiled guidelines for undercover investigations that use fake identification documents to apply for "dark part-time jobs" such as robberies in an effort to deter such crimes.時事通信社 による

The Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday announced the signing of a minor league contract with Japanese baseball pitcher Roki Sasaki.時事通信社 による

Japan logged a customs-cleared trade deficit of 5,332.6 billion yen in 2024, incurring a deficit for the fourth straight year, the Finance Ministry said Thursday.時事通信社 による

Japan's Nissan Motor Co. has canceled its plan to build a small electric vehicle model in Canton in the U.S. state of Mississippi, it was learned Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Chinese researchers have found no abnormalities in concentrations of radioactive materials, such as cesium and strontium, in seawater collected near Japan's Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to a Chinese newspaper report.時事通信社 による

Yemen's pro-Iran Houthi militants have released the crew of the Galaxy Leader car carrier operated by Nippon Yusen K.K., which was seized in the Red Sea in November 2023, Houthi media reports said Wednesday.時事通信社 による

An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 5.0 occurred in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, around 2:49 a.m. Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.時事通信社 による

A man attacked two men and a woman with an apparent knife near JR Nagano Station in the central Japan city of Nagano on Wednesday, leaving one of the two men in his 40s in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest.時事通信社 による

Riken, a Japanese government-backed research institute, said Wednesday that it has launched the development of a successor to its Fugaku supercomputer.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will this week announce a plan to spend more than 15 trillion yen, starting in fiscal 2026, to make the country more resilient to natural disasters, government officials said Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Nippon Ishin no Kai ()削除 on Wednesday unveiled a draft plan to hold primaries to unify opposition candidates for 32 single-seat constituencies in the upcoming House of Councillors election.時事通信社 による

Japan's Imperial Household Agency is considering a visit by Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako to the island of Iwoto, also known as Iwojima, in April to pay respects to soldiers killed in World War II, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Japanese government expenditures to pay interest on bonds are projected to reach 16.1 trillion yen in fiscal 2028, 1.5 times higher than in fiscal 2025, according to Finance Ministry estimates based on the government's fiscal 2025 budget plan.時事通信社 による

Harassment by customers is pushing part-time workers to quit their jobs quickly, a survey conducted by Japanese job information provider Mynavi Corp. suggested Wednesday.時事通信社 による

Japanese people in places linked to Ichiro Suzuki expressed joy and congratulations Wednesday for the 51-year-old Japanese baseball legend's induction into the U.S. National Baseball Hall of Fame.時事通信社 による

The Tokyo metropolitan assembly election will be held on June 22, the election administration commission said Wednesday.時事通信社 による