Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba told U.S. President Donald Trump he hopes to buy U.S. transport planes during their meeting in early February, a Japanese government source said Thursday.Von 時事通信社

Japan's ruling coalition plans to reduce general-account spending in the government's fiscal 2025 budget bill by some 340 billion yen to 115.2 trillion yen, people familiar with the matter said Thursday.Von 時事通信社

Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball Organization, or NPB, said Thursday that 14 people from seven teams, including players and team officials, have voluntarily admitted to using online casinos in the past.Von 時事通信社

Uber Japan and Japan Post Co. said Thursday that they will jointly provide parcel delivery services using ride-hailing drivers on a trial basis.Von 時事通信社

Japan's Keio University said Thursday that its ethics committee has approved clinical research in which women without uteruses are given transplants of other people's uteruses in order to become pregnant and give birth.Von 時事通信社

Hisashi Hieda, a longtime director at Fuji Media Holdings Inc., has stepped down as a member of its management advisory committee, Fuji Media President Osamu Kanemitsu said Thursday.Von 時事通信社

Japan's Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a high court ruling that dismissed a petition by the city of Izumisano, whose special tax grants from the state were slashed for its huge "furusato nozei" donation revenue.Von 時事通信社

Japan Post Holdings Co. said Thursday that it will sell a portion of its shares in Japan Post Bank in mid-March, in order to increase the flexibility of the banking unit's management.Von 時事通信社

Tokyo police have arrested two Chinese men for allegedly stealing others' credit card data to charge electronic money to a mobile payment service provided by East Japan Railway Co., or JR East.Von 時事通信社

Tokyo police have arrested three teenage boys on suspicion of fraudulently subscribing to Rakuten Mobile Inc.'s mobile phone service through a self-made program using artificial intelligence.Von 時事通信社

Japanese Prince Hisahito, the only son of Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko, will attend a coming-of-age ceremony on Sept. 6, his 19th birthday, the Imperial Household Agency said Thursday.Von 時事通信社

The annual number of babies born in Japan fell to 720,988 in 2024, hitting a record low for the ninth straight year, a preliminary report by the health ministry showed Thursday.Von 時事通信社

Japanese police on Thursday arrested a 74-year-old man, already imprisoned for murder, on suspicion of another murder involving the dismemberment of a body found in Shiga Prefecture in 2008.Von 時事通信社

Four former senior members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party faction previously led by the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe unanimously agreed in August 2022 to resume the practice of kicking back fundraising party revenues to faction members, a former chief accountant of the now-defunct faction said Thursday.…

Perhaps one of the most iconic Japanese dictionaries, "Kojien" with its vast collection of some 250,000 words and phrases still include language that may be perceived as misogynistic.Von 時事通信社

Mizuho Bank officials said Thursday that the total amount of cash stolen by a former employee from customers' safe deposit boxes was 66 million yen.Von 時事通信社

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Thursday that it has abandoned a plan to complete by the October 2025 deadline an antiterrorism facility for the No. 7 reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan.Von 時事通信社

A founding family of Seven & i Holdings Co. has given up its acquisition plan for the Japanese retail giant due to financing difficulties, the company said Thursday.Von 時事通信社

The number of fatal and serious injury car accidents in Japan that occurred while drivers were using mobile phones rose by 14 from the previous year to 136 in 2024, the highest since available data began in 2007, the National Police Agency said Thursday.Von 時事通信社

Tokyo police are stepping up a crackdown on a group that recruits women for sexual services by luring them on social media with promises of high incomes.Von 時事通信社

The top appeals court in France on Wednesday ordered a retrial over the alleged murder of a Japanese university student who went missing while studying in the European nation in 2016, local media have reported.Von 時事通信社

A forest fire continued Thursday in the Pacific coastal city of Ofunato in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, with at least 84 buildings burned, according to the city.Von 時事通信社

The No. 7 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, is set to stay offline for longer than planned, due to delays in constructing an antiterrorism facility, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday.Von 時事通信社

JTB Corp. and two other Japanese companies said Wednesday that they will launch services employing drones to shoot videos of customers at tourist spots from the sky.Von 時事通信社

Japanese trading house Itochu Corp. plans not to take part in a bid by Seven & i Holdings Co.'s founding family to buy out the Japanese retail giant, it was learned Wednesday.Von 時事通信社

Japan Post Holdings Co. plans to reduce its stake in Japan Post Bank to 50pctor less soon from the current 61.5 pct, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday.Von 時事通信社

Japanese eyeglass store chain Jins Inc. released Wednesday a device designed to allow users to operate a personal computer with small movements of their heads.Von 時事通信社

The Hyogo prefectural arm of Nippon Ishin no Kai ()削除 said Wednesday that it will expel prefectural assembly member Minoru Kishiguchi for inappropriately providing information about a probe into the governor of the western Japan prefecture to Takashi Tachibana, head of a political group.Von 時事通信社

Osaka University researchers said Wednesday that they have developed a method to test for pancreatic cancer with pancreatic cells or DNA collected through a modified catheter during gastric examinations.Von 時事通信社

Tokyo High Court basically upheld Wednesday a lower court ruling ordering the government to pay damages to residents in Ibaraki Prefecture hit by the 2015 Kinugawa River flooding.Von 時事通信社

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party-Komeito ruling coalition and the opposition Democratic Party for the People failed to agree on raising the taxable income threshold at a meeting of their tax panel chiefs on Wednesday.Von 時事通信社

Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said Wednesday that it has established a temporary office in Canberra to promote the Maritime Self-Defense Force Mogami-class frigate in Australia.Von 時事通信社

The average price of new condominiums in Japan hit a record high for the eighth consecutive year in 2024 because of rising costs for construction materials and labor, Real Estate Economic Institute Co. said Wednesday.Von 時事通信社

Eliminating family income-linked restrictions on eligibility for 118,800-yen annual aid for high school students under a deal between the Liberal Democratic Party-Komeito coalition and Nippon Ishin no Kai ()削除 is estimated to cost about 100 billion yen, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Wednesday.…

Reflecting rising anxiety over sluggish ticket sales for the 2025 World Exposition that will kick off in less than two months, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is moving to boost ticket sales.Von 時事通信社

A Chinese official on Wednesday criticized a change in Japan's family register system that will allow people from Taiwan to write Taiwan instead of China as their place of citizenship, according to a state media report.Von 時事通信社

Japan's Supreme Court has finalized lower court rulings rejecting a plea by a 97-year-old woman for a retrial for the 1979 murder of a man in the town of Osaki, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan.Von 時事通信社

Japanese comedian Teruyoshi Uchimura and television announcer Asami Miura topped the list of ideal male bosses and that of female bosses, respectively, for the ninth consecutive year, a survey by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. showed Wednesday.Von 時事通信社

Toyota Motor Corp. has said that it will switch over to a company with an audit and supervisory committee from the current system of a company with an audit and supervisory board.Von 時事通信社

At a time when the number of foreign travelers to Japan is growing at a record pace, local governments are struggling to deal with the influx driven by social media influencers.Von 時事通信社

Japanese airline ANA Holdings Inc. said Tuesday that it will place orders for 77 new aircraft, worth around 2,158 billion yen on a list price basis, in anticipation of increased air travel demand.Von 時事通信社

The leaders of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, its ally Komeito and Nippon Ishin no Kai ()削除, an opposition party, signed an accord Tuesday on revising the government's budget bill for fiscal 2025.Von 時事通信社

Japanese industry minister Yoji Muto met with executives from related industries Tuesday to discuss U.S. President Donald Trump's planned tariffs on steel, aluminum and automobile imports.Von 時事通信社

Nippon Steel Corp. still intends to acquire United States Steel Corp. outright as planned, President and CEO Tadashi Imai said Tuesday.Von 時事通信社

The Japanese government adopted a bill Tuesday to oblige companies that emit at least 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year to participate in the country's carbon emissions trading system.Von 時事通信社

Japan's ruling and opposition parties on Tuesday broadly agreed to question a former accountant at the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday morning over a slush funds scandal involving the LDP.Von 時事通信社

Japan's Yamaha Motor Co. said Tuesday that it will fully enter the automatic pesticide-spraying business for fruit tree farmers in North America, Australia and New Zealand.Von 時事通信社

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani on Tuesday emphasized that safety was secured in a multilateral exercise in the Black Sea last September to which 10 Maritime Self-Defense Force members were dispatched.Von 時事通信社

Terumi Tanaka of hibakusha atomic bomb survivor group Nihon Hidankyo on Tuesday criticized the Japanese government's decision not to attend the upcoming third meeting of nuclear ban treaty signatories as an observer.Von 時事通信社

A wood-processing company in a town hit by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan 14 years ago is producing building materials for a key symbol of the upcoming 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city of Osaka.Von 時事通信社