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Hokuriku Shinkansen Extension Newly Seen Costing 1. 7-7. 9 T. Yen
13+ hour, 38+ min ago (509+ words) Tokyo, June 19 (Jiji Press)--Japan's transport ministry on Friday showed new cost estimates for eight candidate routes for the planned extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train line between Tsuruga Station in the central prefecture of Fukui and Shin-Osaka Station…...
Ueno Named Japan's Ambassador to Indonesia
12+ hour, 48+ min ago (103+ words) Tokyo, June 19 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government Friday decided to appoint Atsushi Ueno, 61, ambassador to Cambodia, as new ambassador to Indonesia, the post that had been vacant for more than six months. The post remained unfilled after former Ambassador to…...
Final Vessel Carrying Japanese Nationals Leaves Persian Gulf
13+ hour, 43+ min ago (415+ words) Tokyo, June 19 (Jiji Press)--A vessel carrying three Japanese crew members has passed through the Strait of Hormuz, heading for Japan, meaning that no vessels carrying Japanese nationals remain in the Persian Gulf, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Friday. No…...
Japan Opposition CRA Proposes Merger Talks with CDP, Komeito
14+ hour, 11+ min ago (162+ words) Tokyo, June 19 (Jiji Press)--Junya Ogawa, leader of Japan's main opposition Centrist Reform Alliance, on Friday urged the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Komeito to formally enter negotiations with the CRA on a merger among the three parties. Ogawa…...
Life-Sentenced Japanese Man Likely to Be Acquitted after Death
18+ hour, 9+ min ago (492+ words) Otsu, Shiga Pref. , June 19 (Jiji Press)--Japanese public prosecutors said Friday that they will not seek to prove guilt in a retrial of a man who received a life term for a 1984 robbery-murder in Shiga Prefecture and later died in…...
Former Top Japan Bureaucrat Futahashi Dies at 84
16+ hour, 32+ min ago (322+ words) Tokyo, June 19 (Jiji Press)--Masahiro Futahashi, who served as deputy chief cabinet secretary for administrative affairs under former prime ministers Junichiro Koizumi and Yasuo Fukuda for a total of four years, died of pneumonia on June 8. He was 84. In 1964, Futahashi…...
Japan Lower House Passes Referendum Reform Bill
19+ hour, 51+ min ago (133+ words) Tokyo, June 19 (Jiji Press)--Japan's House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, the country's parliament, passed a bill to revise the law on national referendums on constitutional amendments by a majority vote at a plenary session on Friday....
Nikkei Stock Average Ends at Fresh Record High
17+ hour, 57+ min ago (119+ words) Tokyo, June 19 (Jiji Press)--Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average rose 196. 57 points, or 0. 27 pct, to 71, 250. 06 in Tokyo trading on Friday, hitting a record closing high for the fifth session in a row. Semiconductors and other artificial intelligence-related issues continued to draw…...
BOJ Policymaker Up for Multiple Rate Hikes: April Minutes
18+ hour, 51+ min ago (205+ words) Tokyo, June 19 (Jiji Press)--A member of the Bank of Japan Policy Board backed the idea of raising interest rates every few months at their meeting in April, it was learned Friday. At the April 27-28 meeting, three of the nine…...
Japan Extends SDF Dispatch to South Sudan by 1 Year
20+ hour, 30+ min ago (81+ words) nippon. com - Japan Extends SDF Dispatch to South Sudan by 1 Year The deployment, conducted under the law on cooperation in U. N. peacekeeping operations, has continued since 2011. Four SDF members are stationed in the capital, Juba, where they perform duties including information…...