1+ hour, 17+ min ago  (176+ words) Tokyo, July 2 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government's general-account tax revenue for fiscal 2025, which ended in March, is believed to have reached around 84. 2 trillion yen, setting a record high for the sixth consecutive year, it was learned on Thursday. This figure…...

1+ hour, 49+ min ago  (130+ words) Tokyo, July 2 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Atsushi Mimura on Thursday declined to comment on a brief surge of the yen against the dollar in the day. "I'm not going to say anything," Mimura told reporters....

1+ hour, 33+ min ago  (343+ words) New Delhi, July 2 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, at their meeting in New Delhi on Thursday agreed to deepen the two countries' strategic cooperation. A joint document adopted at the bilateral summit…...

3+ hour, 5+ min ago  (134+ words) Tokyo, July 2 (Jiji Press)--Summer bonuses at major Japanese companies this year topped 1 million yen for the first time since comparable data became available in 1981, a survey by the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, showed Thursday. The weighted average amount…...

3+ hour, 53+ min ago  (166+ words) Tokyo, July 2 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo District Court decided Thursday to play video clips of interrogations by a public prosecutor in the courtroom as part of an 11-million-yen damages lawsuit against the state. The lawsuit was filed by the head of…...

4+ hour, 12+ min ago  (165+ words) Tokyo, July 2 (Jiji Press)--Russian Ambassador to Japan Nikolay Nozdrev has no plans to attend a peace ceremony in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 commemorating the 1945 U. S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city, the Russian Embassy in Tokyo said Thursday. The annual…...

5+ hour, 29+ min ago  (218+ words) New York, July 1 (Jiji Press)--The combined number of new vehicles sold by six Japanese automakers in the United States was almost unchanged from a year before in the January-June period of 2026, industry data showed Wednesday. The total edged down…...

4+ hour, 21+ min ago  (132+ words) Tokyo, July 2 (Jiji Press)--Sony Interactive Entertainment said Thursday that it will stop producing disc editions of new Play Station games in January 2028, making all new titles available only in downloadable versions. The company will draw the curtain on the…...

5+ hour, 6+ min ago  (179+ words) Tokyo, July 2 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Centrist Reform Alliance, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Komeito on Thursday agreed that it is desirable for the three opposition parties to establish a new political structure before an extraordinary session of the…...

13+ hour, 53+ min ago  (196+ words) Tokyo, July 2 (Jiji Press)--An 81-year-old man from a former Imperial Family branch has questioned a plan to allow the Imperial Family to adopt male, paternal-line descendants of former branches amid the declining number of Imperial Family members. Born to…...