Prime Minister Fumio Kishida marked 932 days in office Monday, tying Ryutaro Hashimoto as the eighth-longest-serving prime minister in Japan since the end of World War II.時事通信社 による

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, at a party meeting on Tuesday, broadly approved its own proposal to revise the political funds control law, following a high-profile money scandal involving its factions.時事通信社 による

The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force on Tuesday released the names of eight crew members aboard two MSDF patrol helicopters that crashed off a remote Tokyo island on Saturday during a nighttime exercise.時事通信社 による

Ryu Shionoya, former chairman of the General Council of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, submitted his resignation from the party on Tuesday, after the party rejected his appeal against its punishment for him over a political funds scandal involving LDP factions.時事通信社 による

Hiroyuki Miyazawa, a lawmaker in Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, submitted his resignation to the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the country's parliament, on Tuesday.時事通信社 による

A memorial ceremony was held in the town of Shari, Hokkaido, on Tuesday to remember the victims of the sinking of a tour boat off the Shiretoko Peninsula in the northernmost Japan prefecture two years ago.時事通信社 による

Princess Aiko, the only child of Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, made her first appearance in an Imperial garden party in Tokyo on Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Japan Post Bank said Tuesday that a system failure occurred in the morning, causing delays in around 1,176,000 money deposits from other banks as of 5 p.m.時事通信社 による

Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said Tuesday that the environment for an appropriate response over the foreign exchange market has become ready.時事通信社 による

The Jan. 1 earthquake in the Noto Peninsula in central Japan is estimated to have dented the country's nominal gross domestic product by around 90 billion yen to 115 billion yen in three affected prefectures in January-March, the Cabinet Office said Tuesday.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday instructed related ministers to create a fund for the medium- to long-term recovery of areas damaged in the Jan. 1 Noto Peninsula earthquake, which mainly struck Ishikawa Prefecture in central Japan.時事通信社 による

Former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, currently visiting New York, is slated to meet with former U.S. President Donald Trump as early as Tuesday afternoon local time, informed sources said.時事通信社 による

Investigations into the operator of the Kazu I sightseeing tour boat remain ongoing as Tuesday marked two years since the fatal sinking of the vessel off the Shiretoko Peninsula in the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido.時事通信社 による

Chugoku Electric Power Co. started a drilling survey Tuesday in the town of Kaminoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture for the possible construction of an interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel generated from nuclear power plants.時事通信社 による

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said Tuesday the Japanese central bank will raise short-term interest rates if the possibility of the economy achieving the bank's 2pctinflation target sustainably and stably grows further.時事通信社 による

North Korean animators may be involved in the production of some Japanese and U.S. animated shows, the 38 North website said Monday.時事通信社 による

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Monday instructed a firing drill involving super-large multiple rocket launchers, simulating a tactical nuclear counterattack, Pyongyang's state media said Tuesday.時事通信社 による

The International Atomic Energy Agency on Tuesday began its second review of the operations to discharge into the sea tritium-containing treated water from the meltdown-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan.時事通信社 による

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Some 90 Japanese lawmakers Tuesday visited together war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo during its three-day spring festival from Sunday.時事通信社 による

Japan's new "V Point" reward point program stumbled on the very day it was launched, due to a glitch found in related apps.時事通信社 による

Applications for publicly funded demolitions of houses damaged by the Noto Peninsula earthquake have been filed for only 30pctof the houses expected to undergo such work in Ishikawa Prefecture.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government Tuesday decided an additional spending of 138.9 billion yen from its reserve funds under its fiscal 2024 budget to support areas hit by the Jan. 1 Noto Peninsula earthquake.時事通信社 による

The apparent crash of two Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopters off a remote Tokyo island on Saturday occurred during a training mission inspected by the commander of the Fleet Escort Force, it was learned Monday.時事通信社 による

Candidates backed by the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan are in the lead ahead of three by-elections for the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the country's parliament, on Sunday, Jiji Press has learned.時事通信社 による

The families of 18 deceased former Chinese "comfort women" have filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government with a court in China's Shanxi Province, the plaintiffs' lawyer said Monday.時事通信社 による

The new "V Point" reward point program was launched in Japan on Monday through the merger of Culture Convenience Club Co.'s T-Point program and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc.'s existing V Point program.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government said in a report Monday that it will scrap 15 state fund-backed projects over the two years through fiscal 2024, as a result of a review of a total of 200 projects backed by 152 state funds.時事通信社 による

Japan's crude steel production in fiscal 2023 decreased 1.1pctfrom the previous year to 86.83 million tons, down for the second straight year and below 100 million tons for the fifth consecutive year, the Japan Iron and Steel Federation said Monday.時事通信社 による

About 70pctof companies in Japan will implement pay scale increases in fiscal 2024, a survey by the Finance Ministry showed Monday.時事通信社 による

A sense of relief is spreading among foreign players on the Japanese stock market as an "end is in sight" for the yen's rapid fall, a Japanese equity expert has said.時事通信社 による

Nagoya District Court on Monday sentenced a Japanese "sugar baby" who called herself "itadaki joshi" to nine years in prison and a fine of 8 million yen for defrauding men out of money and selling a manual on sugar babying.時事通信社 による

Japan's Fair Trade Commission on Monday took its first ever administrative action against U.S. technology giant Google LLC, over its digital advertising business.時事通信社 による

A Chinese professor at Japan's Asia University has been missing since he made his temporary homecoming last year, it was learned Monday.時事通信社 による

North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the Sea of Japan, the South Korean military said Monday.時事通信社 による

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party will draft a bill to revise the political funds control law this week, following a money scandal involving the LDP, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday.時事通信社 による

Japan's Finance Ministry lowered its economic assessments for three of the country's 11 regions Monday, reflecting a weaker rebound in production due to record inflation, the slowdown of the Chinese economy and the effects of a recent major earthquake in the country.時事通信社 による

Former Japanese baseball star Hideki Matsui, who played in the U.S. major league and Japanese professional baseball, on Sunday promoted an upcoming Japan-U.S. exhibition at the U.S. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.時事通信社 による

Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani blasted the 176th home run in his Major League Baseball career Sunday, rewriting the record for a Japanese-born player.時事通信社 による

A collision warning system apparently was not working in Saturday's crash of Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopters in the Pacific, Defense Ministry officials have said.時事通信社 による

Japan's NanoTerasu next-generation synchrotron radiation facility went into operation at a Tohoku University campus in Sendai in the northeastern prefecture of Miyagi this month.時事通信社 による

The Japanese aircraft industry's desire to develop and produce a new Air Self-Defense Force jet trainer entirely in the country has faded following a White House summit between Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S. President Joe Biden earlier this month.時事通信社 による

Upcoming parliamentary by-elections are a major test for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's effort to maintain his clout as his ruling party comes under fire over a political funds scandal.時事通信社 による

Japanese dancer Yuna Yamada won first place on Saturday in the women's precompetitive age classical division at this year's Youth America Grand Prix international ballet contest in New York.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a ritual "masakaki" tree offering at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Sunday, when the war-related Shinto shrine's three-day spring festival began.時事通信社 による

Two Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopters are believed to have crashed as they went missing while flying in the Pacific south of Tokyo Saturday night, Defense Ministry officials said.時事通信社 による

The organizers of the Cannes Film Festival on Friday unveiled the official poster for this year's event, featuring a scene from Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's "Rhapsody in August."時事通信社 による

Sony Group Corp. said Friday that it has created a new scholarship program that provides about 10 college students in science and engineering in Japan with up to 1.2 million yen in grants per year each.時事通信社 による

Honda Motor Co. said Friday that it will spend 4.2 billion reals in Brazil by 2030 as a strategic investment as the Japanese automaker considers the country as a promising market.時事通信社 による

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. is considering a joint bid to acquire Paramount Global, according to news reports.時事通信社 による