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Japan to Promote Digital Transformation for Water Systems
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0:10A Japanese government panel agreed Thursday to promote digital transformation to tackle the aging of public infrastructure, including water supply and sewage systems.時事通信社 による
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2 Ishin Politicians Quit Hyogo Special Panel Probing Governor
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0:12Two Hyogo prefectural assembly members of Nippon Ishin no Kai ()削除 resigned Thursday from a special committee investigating alleged harassment by Motohiko Saito, governor of the western prefecture.時事通信社 による
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Ishiba, IAEA Chief Agree to Strengthen Cooperation
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0:13Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, met in Tokyo on Thursday and agreed to strengthen cooperation between the two sides.時事通信社 による
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Trump Vowed to Raise Abduction Issue with N. Korea: Ishiba
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0:13U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to raise the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals if he meets with the country's leader, Kim Jong Un, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Thursday.時事通信社 による
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Japan Domestic Paper Shipments Hit 39-Year Low in 2024
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0:14Domestic shipments of paper and paperboard in 2024 dropped 2.9pctfrom the previous year to 19.91 million tons, the lowest in 39 years, the Japan Paper Association said Thursday.時事通信社 による
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Police Protect Japanese over Overseas Fraud in 10 Cases
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0:13Japanese police took Japanese nationals linked to fraud based overseas into protective custody in 10 cases over the four months from Oct. 18 last year, National Police Agency sources said Thursday.時事通信社 による
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KKR Successfully Completes Tender Offer for Fuji Soft
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0:13Fuji Soft Inc. said Thursday that U.S. investment fund KKR has successfully completed its tender offer for the Japanese system developer after a six-month takeover battle with U.S. rival Bain Capital.時事通信社 による
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Machinery Maker Ebara Warned over Subcontract Law Breaches
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0:12The Japan Fair Trade Commission on Thursday warned major machinery maker Ebara Corp. for receiving unfair economic benefits from subcontractors in violation of the subcontract law.時事通信社 による
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Norinchukin Bank Projects Net Loss of 1.9 T. Yen
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0:09Norinchukin Bank said Thursday it expects to incur a net loss of around 1.9 trillion yen in the fiscal year ending next month.時事通信社 による
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Trump Touts U.S.-Japan Alliance in Statement on Battle of Iwo Jima
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0:12U.S. President Donald Trump touted his country's alliance with Japan in a statement released Wednesday to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima in the closing days of World War II.時事通信社 による
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Boy to Be Sent to Family Court over Murder of Parents near Tokyo
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0:13A Japanese district court on Thursday called on a family court to hear a case involving a 16-year-old boy charged with murdering his parents in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, last year.時事通信社 による
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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda met on Thursday to discuss economic and financial situations at home and abroad.時事通信社 による
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Suzuki Motor Targets Operating Profit of 800 B. Yen in FY 2030
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0:13Suzuki Motor Corp. on Thursday announced a target to achieve an operating profit of 800 billion yen in fiscal 2030, up from 465.5 billion yen in fiscal 2023.時事通信社 による
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Bill Calling for Campaign Poster Decency Submitted in Japan
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0:14Japanese political parties, including the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the major opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, submitted a bill to parliament on Thursday calling for decency in campaign posters.時事通信社 による
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Osaka Gas Co. plans to increase its city gas sales in India by about 10 times from the current level to about 3.5 billion cubic meters in 2030 as the world's most populous country tries to cut greenhouse gas emissions, company officials said.時事通信社 による
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Ishin Politician Admits Giving Papers to NHK Party Boss
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0:15Nippon Ishin no Kai ()削除 said Wednesday that a Hyogo prefectural assembly member of the party has admitted his involvement in providing key documents to Takashi Tachibana, leader of controversial political group NHK Party.時事通信社 による
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Japan Ruling Bloc, Ishin Broadly Agree on Free Education
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0:14Japan's Liberal Democratic Party-led ruling bloc has broadly agreed with opposition Nippon Ishin no Kai ()削除 over a proposal to make high school education free of tuition, an LDP executive said Wednesday.時事通信社 による
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Hyogo Assembly Panel to Find Harassment Allegations True
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0:14The Hyogo prefectural assembly's special committee investigating harassment allegations against Governor Motohiko Saito is planning to acknowledge in its upcoming report that the allegations are largely true, informed sources said Wednesday.時事通信社 による
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Former residents of Japan's Iwojima, a major World War II battlefield, on Wednesday submitted to the land ministry a request to return to the Pacific island in stages.時事通信社 による
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Japan Rice Price to Wholesalers Surges to Another High
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0:11The average price of Japan's 2024 rice crop sold to wholesalers surged in January to hit a record high for the fifth straight month, the agriculture ministry said Wednesday.時事通信社 による
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32 Japanese Prefectures' Draft Budgets Grow in FY 2025
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0:12Thirty-two of Japan's 47 prefectures have compiled draft general-account budgets for fiscal 2025 that are larger than those of the previous year, a Jiji Press tally showed Wednesday.時事通信社 による
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Mitsui to Invest 5.3 B. Dlrs in Aussie Iron Ore Project
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0:14Japan's Mitsui & Co. said Wednesday that it will acquire a 40pctinterest in an Australian iron ore project for 5,342 million U.S. dollars, one of the biggest investments by the trading house.時事通信社 による
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Kobayashi Pharma Shareholders Reject Hong Kong Fund's Proposals
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0:11Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. shareholders voted down proposals by Hong Kong-based investment fund Oasis Management Co. at their extraordinary meeting in Osaka on Wednesday.時事通信社 による
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2 More Rulings Back Japan 2024 Lower House Election
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0:12Nagoya High Court and Sendai High Court's Akita branch ruled on Wednesday that Japan's House of Representatives election in October 2024 was constitutional in terms of vote-value disparities.時事通信社 による
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BOJ Needs to Shift Gears on Rate Hikes: Policymaker Takata
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0:12The Bank of Japan needs to consider implementing further gear shifts in its monetary policy after last month's additional interest rate hike, BOJ policymaker Hajime Takata said Wednesday.時事通信社 による
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Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and leading opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan agreed Wednesday to postpone an unsworn testimony over slush funds created by the now-defunct LDP faction once led by late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.時事通信社 による
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Death Sentence over Murder of Japanese Boy in China to Be Finalized
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0:11The death sentence for the Chinese man who stabbed a Japanese boy to death in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, southern China, last September is likely to be finalized, it was learned Wednesday.時事通信社 による
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Monthly Number of Visitors to Japan Hits Record High in Jan.
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0:15The monthly number of foreign visitors to Japan hit a record high in January, partly reflecting travel demand from China and other parts of Asia during the Lunar New Year holiday period, a Japan National Tourism Organization report showed Wednesday.時事通信社 による
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Major Japanese automakers are seeking strategies to handle U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to impose tariffs.時事通信社 による
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14 Years On: Miyagi Governor Stresses Importance of Mental Health Care
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0:13Mental health care and the rebuilding of local communities remain challenging issues in Miyagi Prefecture 14 years after a massive earthquake and tsunami, Governor Yoshihiro Murai said in an interview on Tuesday.時事通信社 による
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Japan Economic Magazines before, during WWII Released Online
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0:10The Japan Press Research Institute released digitized editions of "Kokusai Keizai Shuho" ()削除, published before and during World War II, on its website Wednesday.時事通信社 による
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Japan Core Machinery Orders Fall 1.2 Pct in Dec.
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0:12Japan's seasonally adjusted core machinery orders in December last year fell 1.2pctfrom the previous month, the first decline in three months, the Cabinet Office said Wednesday.時事通信社 による
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14 Years On: Iwate to Ask for Continued Reconstruction Support
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0:16Iwate Prefecture will ask the Japanese government for continued assistance after the second-phase reconstruction period expires at the end of fiscal 2025 following a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, Governor Takuya Tasso said in an interview.時事通信社 による
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Man Gets 10 Years over Attack on Ex-Japan PM Kishida
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0:14A Japanese district court on Wednesday sentenced a 25-year-old man to 10 years in prison over a high-profile attack on then Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a campaign trail in the western city of Wakayama in 2023.時事通信社 による
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Japan Norinchukin Bank Pres. to Resign after Huge Loss
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0:10Norinchukin Bank President Kazuto Oku plans to step down as early as the end of March after the Japanese lender reported a huge net loss, it was learned Tuesday.時事通信社 による
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Japan, IAEA to Cooperate in Fukushima N-Plant Decommissioning
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0:16Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Rafael Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, agreed on Tuesday to strengthen cooperation in work to decommission and dismantle the meltdown-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.時事通信社 による
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Japan will not participate as an observer in the third meeting of signatories to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in New York in March, Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said Tuesday.時事通信社 による
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Japan Urges Taliban Officials to Cooperate with Int'l Society
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0:12A senior Japanese Foreign Ministry official met with visiting senior officials of Afghanistan's Taliban-led interim government in Tokyo on Tuesday and urged them to cooperate with the international community.時事通信社 による
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Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Tuesday proposed increasing the tax-free portion of annual income to 1.6 million yen, but only for people with annual incomes of 2 million yen or less.時事通信社 による
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Ex-Heads Oppose Japan Govt's Science Council Conversion Plan
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0:12Six former presidents of the Science Council of Japan urged Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Tuesday to scrap a planned bill that would transform the council into a corporation separate from the government.時事通信社 による
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Yet Another Court Finds 2024 Lower House Poll Constitutional
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0:11The Naha branch of Fukuoka High Court on Tuesday found last year's House of Representatives election constitutional in terms of vote-value disparity, following similar rulings on the event.時事通信社 による
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Japan to Allow Taiwan as Nationality in Family Register
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0:13Japan will allow regions to be recorded as nationalities under its family register system, enabling people from Taiwan to write the self-governing island instead of China, Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki said Tuesday.時事通信社 による
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Man Gets Indefinite Term for Robbery in Tokyo's Komae
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0:13Tokyo District Court's Tachikawa branch on Tuesday gave an indefinite prison term, as sought by prosecutors, to a 54-year-old man over a robbery resulting in death in Komae, Tokyo, about two years ago.時事通信社 による
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Japan Priest Wants to Help People in Hospitals, Disaster Areas
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0:14Buddhist priest Kodai Furutani, known for online videos explaining the teachings of Buddhism in an easy-to-understand manner, hopes to become a "clinical" chaplain providing mental and spiritual support in hospitals and disaster-hit areas.時事通信社 による
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Hong Kong Game Firm Faces 1.8-B.-Yen Back Taxes in Japan
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0:16The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau has imposed some 1.8 billion yen in back taxes, including penalties, on a Hong Kong-based game company for failing to pay in Japan consumption tax associated with revenue from in-game spending, it was learned Tuesday.時事通信社 による
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A former employee at Mizuho Bank had stolen several tens of millions of yen in assets from two customers' safe deposit boxes several years ago, people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.時事通信社 による
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Ex-Abe Faction Accountant to Be Questioned Thurs.
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0:13The House of Representatives Budget Committee agreed Tuesday to question on Thursday a former chief accountant of a now-defunct faction of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party over a high-profile slush funds scandal.時事通信社 による
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The Japanese government said Tuesday that the country will make maximum use of nuclear power, which does not emit carbon dioxide, as it is preparing for a surge in electricity demand from data centers.時事通信社 による
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Shiba Inu Dog Kabosu Continues to Be Loved after Death
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0:11Kabosu, the Shiba Inu dog known as the logo model for a cryptocurrency, remains hugely popular even after her death last May, with fan letters flooding in from around Japan.時事通信社 による
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Japan Vows to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 60 Pct in FY 2035
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0:16The Japanese government said Tuesday that it will aim to reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions by 60pctin fiscal 2035 from fiscal 2013 and 73pctin fiscal 2040 to achieve carbon neutrality in calendar 2050.時事通信社 による
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