1+ hour, 15+ min ago  (161+ words) Tokyo, April 9 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday avoided clarifying whether Japan will participate in the November meeting of signatories to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Meeting with Takaichi at the prime minister's office…...

1+ hour, 55+ min ago  (164+ words) Tokyo, April 9 (Jiji Press)--Japan and eight other nations have called for peace in Lebanon in light of Israel's continued attacks on the Middle Eastern country despite a two-week ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran. "We call upon…...

5+ hour, 53+ min ago  (188+ words) Tokyo, April 9 (Jiji Press)--The University of Tokyo will put its hospital under the direct control of the university headquarters by the end of June at the earliest as part of reform efforts following corruption scandals involving doctors at the…...

1+ hour, 53+ min ago  (551+ words) Tokyo, April 9 (Jiji Press)--The Japan Sumo Association decided Thursday to demote former yokozuna grand champion Terunofuji, now stablemaster Isegahama, and cut his pay by 10 pct for three months over his violence toward a wrestler in his stable. At the…...

3+ hour, 5+ min ago  (163+ words) Tokyo, April 9 (Jiji Press)--Japan's ruling parties on Thursday proposed establishing a constitutional amendment drafting committee soon within the Commission on the Constitution in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, the country's parliament. At the first…...

3+ hour, 47+ min ago  (144+ words) Tokyo, April 9 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government is set to delay the submission to the Diet, or parliament, of a bill aimed at amending the country's retrial system, initially scheduled for this week. The move came as the government sees…...

5+ hour, 56+ min ago  (202+ words) Tokyo, April 9 (Jiji Press)--Japan's National Police Agency on Thursday unveiled a model of a handbook to be issued to crime victims in an effort to ease their burden. The NPA instructed prefectural police departments across the country to use…...

7+ hour, 2+ min ago  (500+ words) Miyazaki, April 9 (Jiji Press)--Former Miyazaki Governor Hideo Higashikokubaru said Thursday that he intends to run in a gubernatorial election in January in the southwestern Japan prefecture. "Miyazaki needs a game changer to stem its decline," Higashikokubaru, 68, said at a…...

5+ hour, 26+ min ago  (114+ words) Tokyo, April 9 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Crown Princess Kiko attended a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the National College of Nursing in Kiyose, Tokyo, on Thursday. The school was established by the health ministry in 2001 to foster nursing staff for the…...

19+ hour, 34+ min ago  (158+ words) Tokyo, April 8 (Jiji Press)--Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko on Wednesday lodged a protest with Japan over a Japanese firm's investment in a Ukrainian defense-related company that handles interceptor drones. The protest came during a meeting between Rudenko, who…...