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The U.N. Security Council on Thursday rejected a draft resolution that recommended Palestine become a full U.N. member state, with the United States casting a veto.

Japan's core consumer prices in fiscal 2023 grew 2.8pctfrom the previous year, rising for the third straight year on higher food prices, government data showed Friday.

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. started the release for fiscal 2024 of treated water containing tritium, a radioactive substance, from its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant into the sea on Friday.

U.S. activist fund ValueAct Capital has expressed support for Japanese retail group Seven & i Holdings Co.'s stock listing plan for its supermarket operations.

Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies ended their two-day meeting in Washington on Thursday without adopting a joint statement or other outcome documents.

A Japanese man who lost his wife and daughter in a high-profile accident involving a runaway car driven by an elderly man five years ago says he hopes to "leverage ()削除 the victimizer's experience to prevent traffic accidents."

A group of doctors has filed a 1.4-million-yen damages lawsuit against technology giant Google over its Google Maps online map service.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda on Thursday suggested a possible change in the Japanese central bank's monetary policy in the event of a weaker yen affecting prices considerably.

Japanese companies with labor unions of under 300 members have agreed to raise monthly pay by 4.75pcton weighted average in this year's "shunto" spring wage talks, the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo, said in a survey report on Thursday.

Japan and eight other economies agreed on a new rule Thursday that reduces the 2024 catch quota for saury in the high seas in the northern Pacific to 135,000 tons from 150,000 tons.

Boeing Co. on Thursday opened a research and development base in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, its first such facility in Japan.

Tokyo District Court on Thursday ordered the former operator of a now-closed manga piracy website called Mangamura to pay three major Japanese publishers a total of about 1.73 billion yen in damages.

Japanese Crown Prince Akishino on Thursday visited a farmer in Anamizu, a town in the central prefecture of Ishikawa that was hard hit by a magnitude-7.6 earthquake on New Year's Day.

Sapporo District Court on Thursday rejected a claim by a group of Ainu indigenous people in the town of Urahoro in Hokkaido, northernmost Japan, that they have an "indigenous right" to catch salmon in local rivers.

Nippon Steel Corp. and United States Steel Corp. released a joint statement Thursday in response to U.S. President Joe Biden's speech opposing the Japanese company's acquisition of the U.S. company.

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa told her Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba, on Thursday that her country's support for Ukraine will not waver amid Russia's invasion.

A Japanese district court Thursday ordered Resonac Holdings Corp. to pay 104 million yen in damages to people claiming to suffer from Niigata Minamata disease, a neurological disorder caused by mercury poisoning.

Oracle Corp. plans to invest more than 8 billion dollars in Japan over the next decade to meet growing demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure, its Japan unit said Thursday.

Japan's National Police Agency plans to introduce driver's licenses for large automatic transmission, or AT, vehicles, including trucks and buses, in fiscal 2026 or later, it was learned Thursday.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday dismissed concerns that the country's Self-Defense Forces may come under the command and control of the U.S. military.

The average unit price of new condominiums put up for sale in the greater Tokyo area in fiscal 2023 hit a record high for the third consecutive year, Real Estate Economic Institute Co. said Thursday.

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Wednesday it has launched a fresh investigation into the phantom braking issues targeting some 3 million vehicles made by Japan's Honda Motor Co.

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Finance ministers and central bank chiefs of the Group of Seven major democracies Wednesday reaffirmed their "unwavering support" for Ukraine amid its war with invading Russia.

Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara is considering visiting Hawaii to meet his U.S. counterpart, Lloyd Austin, as early as the beginning of May, Japanese Defense Ministry officials said Thursday.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Thursday met with families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago.

The Diet, Japan's parliament, enacted a bill Thursday to start a scheme to allow crime victims and bereaved families to receive support from lawyers from soon after incidents.

A House of Representatives special committee on Thursday approved a bill aimed at boosting measures to tackle Japan's declining birthrate.

A total of nine people were injured in a strong earthquake that struck western Japan on Wednesday night, local authorities said Thursday.

Japanese anime powerhouse Studio Ghibli Inc. will be given an Honorary Palme d'Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, it was announced Wednesday.

Finance ministers of Japan, the United States and South Korea on Wednesday affirmed that the three countries will keep working closely in dealing with movements of foreign exchange rates.

Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen confirmed that their countries will "communicate closely" on the trend of the foreign exchange market, where the yen has been weakening rapidly, Suzuki said Wednesday.

Japanese anime director Hayao Miyazaki is among Time's 100 most influential people of 2024, according to the list published by the U.S. magazine Wednesday.

A Japanese ruling party faction led by senior lawmaker Toshimitsu Motegi decided Wednesday to withdraw its registration as a political organization amid a strong public backlash over a high-profile political funds scandal involving the party.

Major Japanese trading house Itochu Corp. and investment fund J-Will Partners plan to acquire embattled used car dealer Bigmotor Co. for 60 billion yen, it was learned Wednesday.

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Wednesday that it has halted fuel loading at the idled No. 7 reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, following an electrical system problem.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Wednesday agreed to deepen coordination among both countries and the United States.

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Wednesday that it will start on Friday the first round in fiscal 2024 of the release of treated water containing radioactive tritium from the crippled Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant into the sea.

Toshiba Corp. is considering cutting several thousand jobs in Japan as it seeks to reduce costs and improve its profit structure, it was learned Wednesday.

Government-backed Japan Investment Corp. said Wednesday that its tender offer for Japanese semiconductor materials giant JSR Corp. has been successfully completed.

The Japanese government said Wednesday that it plans to survey trade practices in the creative sector to consider devising guidelines for appropriate contracts.

Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday that it is recalling 135,305 units of its Prius hybrid car due to a risk of doors opening during driving.

The estimated monthly number of foreign visitors to Japan surpassed three million for the first time last month, a Japan National Tourism Organization report showed Wednesday.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held in Osaka on Wednesday for the U.S. pavilion at the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city.

Japan's average retail price of regular gasoline fell for the first time in five weeks due to boosted subsidies, the industry ministry said Wednesday.

The town assembly of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, began deliberations Wednesday on whether to accept a "literature survey" to examine the town's suitability for hosting a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear plants.

The Supreme Court has rejected a retrial over the so-called 1949 Mitaka incident, in which an empty train ran out of control and killed six people in Tokyo.

The Diet, Japan's parliament, enacted a bill Wednesday to ease restrictions on Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. partly to help the group become more competitive on the global stage.

You can calm your anger simply by writing down what caused the feeling on a piece of paper and throwing it away into a trash can or shredding it, a Japanese study has found.