Appropriate prices top focus for new agriculture minister
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Major Japanese home furnishings retailer Nitori Holdings Co. on Monday said up to 37.62 million customer records may have leaked due
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Vietnamese President To Lam are expected to affirm deeper energy security cooperation in t
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YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) -- An exhibition of sculptures created by artists from Japan and Vietnam has begun in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo, to ma
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Nikkei stock index briefly jumped over 3 percent Monday, on dip-buying led by artificial intelligence- and semiconductor-related
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NAGATO, Yamaguchi -- Yamaguchi Prefecture has teamed up with the parent company of major conveyor belt sushi chain Sushiro and other partners to launc
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Recently elected Okinawa Gov. Genta Koja said Monday that he supports a controversial plan to relocate a U.S. military air base withi
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TOKYO -- Japan's education ministry has presented draft ministerial guidelines stating that digital textbooks scheduled for introduction from fiscal 2
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Chinese man was referred to prosecutors Monday for allegedly disrupting a major mobile carrier's services in Tokyo's Ginza shopping
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It has been one year since Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made comments in the Diet about a Taiwan contingency that so angered Beijing, yet Japan still
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FUKUTSU, Fukuoka -- The fire department serving the Fukuoka Prefecture cities of Munakata and Fukutsu has developed a small, unmanned firefighting rob
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan intervened in the foreign exchange market on July 30, buying a record 7.98 trillion yen ($50.4 billion) to stem the Japanese cu
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SAGA -- A new snack made with Saga Prefecture's "Ichigosan" brand strawberries has joined the lineup of products bearing the name of the popular Black
