Japan's jobless rate falls to 2.4% in Sept. amid labor shortages
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's unemployment rate in September improved to 2.4 percent from 2.5 percent in the previous month, the first fall in two months
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's unemployment rate in September improved to 2.4 percent from 2.5 percent in the previous month, the first fall in two months
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MAKUBETSU, Hokkaido -- Researchers are conducting an excavation for fiscal 2026 at a fossil site in the Churui district of this northern Japan town wh
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SHANGHAI (Kyodo) -- Character licensing company Sanrio Co. said Thursday it has decided to end a tie-up campaign with the hit Japanese spy thriller "V
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's industrial output in September rose 2.2 percent from the previous month, marking the first increase in three months, as auto
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CEBU, Philippines (Kyodo) -- Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi pledged Thursday at a regional defense forum to uphold the country's exclusive
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KATHMANDU (Kyodo) -- The Japanese Embassy in Kathmandu said Thursday that two bodies found on a mountain in central Nepal earlier this month were thos
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan plans to gradually reduce subsidies for gasoline and other fuels from December, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Thursday, am
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A luxury watch worth an estimated 46 million yen ($291,000) was stolen from a shop in Tokyo's Nakano Ward on Thursday, police said, a
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OSAKA (Kyodo) -- A gauge on the control panel crept upward as students watched closely inside a university nuclear research facility in western Japan.
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TOKYO -- Japanese manga artist Tetsuya Chiba passed away on Oct. 22 at the age of 87, having remained a central figure in the manga world, with his lo
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TOKYO -- Grapes hang from vines on the rooftop of a high-rise building in central Tokyo, while rice stalks sway in a paddy. Major developer Mori Build
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A city assembly member in central Japan was ordered on Thursday to pay damages to award-winning author Li Kotomi for revealing her ge
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese airline ANA Holdings Inc. said Thursday its net profit for the April-September period fell 11.8 percent from a year earlier
