June 25, 2019
BEIJING (AFP-Jiji) — Top Chinese and U.S. trade negotiators have held telephone talks ahead of a crunch meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the Grou...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The House of Representatives voted down a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet on Tuesday. The focus in the political scene will shift to a trien...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — U.S. President Donald Trump will meet an array of world leaders on the sidelines of this week’s Group of 20 summit in Japan, including China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s ...
SEOUL (Jiji Press) — There will be no separate meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in during the two-day Group of 20 summit starting in Osaka on Friday, a ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Women accounted for 31.5 percent of those who passed Japan’s career-track national public servant examination in fiscal 2019, topping 30 percent for the first time, the Natio...
This is the fourth and final installment of a series on the summit of the Group of 20 major economies in Osaka.
A World Trade Organization dispute settlement panel’s decision to accept Japan’s ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Japan for six days from Thursday. Erdogan will attend the Group of 20 summit in Osaka ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan has no immediate plan to send Self-Defense Forces units to the Strait of Hormuz, where a tanker operated by a Japanese company was attacked recently, Defense Minister Tak...
MARSEILLE, France (AFP-Jiji) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said he would discuss the current flare-up of tensions between Iran and the United States with U.S. President Donald Trump ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The U.S. government’s call for dialogue with Iran is a sham, Iranian Ambassador to Japan Morteza Rahmani Movahed said Monday. If U.S. President Donald Trump is a sincere pe...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Japan’s top government spokesman said on Tuesday the United States has confirmed its security treaty with Japan after a report suggested U.S. President Donald Trump considered w...
This is the second installment of a four-part series on the summit of the Group of 20 major economies in Osaka.
Cross-border data transactions have become a widespread international business and ar...
The Foreign Ministry will create a document in English to explain to immigration officials overseas Japanese passports having both maiden names and married names printed on them. The ministry aims t...
This is the first installment of a four-part series on the summit of the Group of 20 major economies in Osaka.
The first summit of the Group of 20 major economies to be held in Japan is just a few...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday set the win-or-lose bar for the ruling coalition in this summer’s House of Councillors election at the majority of seats in the upper ch...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The House of Councillors on Friday passed into law a bill for better Japanese-language education for foreigners living in Japan. Foreign residents should be given full opportu...
TOKYO (Jiji Press)—The Japanese and Chinese governments are hoping to arrange a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Japan as a state guest next spring, new Chinese Ambassador to Japan Kong Xua...
In a Cabinet meeting Friday, the government approved four plans that address how to develop future national policies, with an extra emphasis on expanding the workforce.
The four plans include the B...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Major opposition parties, including the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, submitted a censure motion on Friday against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the House of Council...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Diet enacted legislation on Wednesday to establish a scheme that will allow law students to complete their undergraduate studies in three years and take the bar exam while ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday that he has no intention of calling a snap election for the all-important House of Representatives. “The word ‘dissolution’ is ...
Schools dedicated to the training and support of female politicians are thriving. An increasing number of their graduates are running — and winning — in unified local elections, indicating that th...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Diet enacted on Wednesday bills that are aimed at better preventing child abuse by making it easier for child consultation centers across the nation to step into mistreatme...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan asked South Korea on Wednesday to choose a third country to select a member for an arbitration panel tasked with resolving the issue of court orders for compensation by J...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — An advisory panel recommended on Tuesday that the government promote the development of new materials, such as biodegradable plastics, to prevent marine pollution by plastic wa...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government on Tuesday adopted a comprehensive package of measures for dealing with dementia, with the aim of creating a society in which sufferers can live their daily live...
AKITA (Jiji Press) — Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya visited the Akita prefectural government Monday to apologize for using flawed data to explain that a site in the prefecture is suited for the dep...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government is avoiding taking sides in the dispute surrounding U.S. claims of Iranian involvement in Thursday’s attacks on two oil tankers, including one operated by a Ja...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Financial Services Agency had made an estimate suggesting that ¥15 million to ¥30 million in life savings would be necessary per elderly couple in addition to pension ben...
KARUIZAWA, Nagano (Jiji Press) — The Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies on Sunday agreed to establish an international framework to cooperate in reducing marine plastic waste. The G20 ene...
The number of women planning to stand in this summer’s upper house elections makes it likely that a record-high ratio of female candidates will be fielded, possibly exceeding 30 percent. A law to p...
KARUIZAWA, Nagano (Jiji Press) — Japan will make it mandatory to charge for disposable plastic shopping bags as early as April next year, Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hiroshige Seko said Sa...
JERUSALEM (Jiji Press) — Thursday’s attacks on two tankers near the Strait of Hormuz, including one operated by a Japanese firm, stoked speculation over the perpetrators and reasons, as they coin...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A law to ban unfair resale of tickets for sports, music and other events, including through the internet, and impose penalties on violators went into effect on Friday. The le...
HANOI (Jiji Press) — Two destroyers of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, including the Izumo helicopter flattop, arrived at Cam Ranh International Port in southern Vietnam on Friday. The MSDF ships...
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has said she will suspend a proposed extradition bill indefinitely. Lam told media Saturday she took the move in response to widespread publi...
A flying object was likely used to attack a tanker operated by Kokuka Sangyo Co., the shipping company said at a press conference at its head office in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Friday.
The tanker was...
The Japan Coast Guard plans to establish one of the nation’s largest bases at Kagoshima Port, to support security operations that would strengthen the JCG’s ability to counter repeated incursions...
TEHRAN (Jiji Press) — Iran will not produce, possess or use nuclear weapons, and has no intention ever to do these, the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told Prime Minister Shinz...
TEHRAN — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani confirmed Wednesday that the Middle East country and the United States should avoid a military clash and strive to ease growin...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Diet on Wednesday enacted a bill for obliging the implantation into pet dogs and cats of a microchip containing owner information. The House of Councillors passed the bill...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe left for Iran on Wednesday to convey to Tehran a message from U.S. President Donald Trump that the United States hopes to resolve its current tensions...
WASHINGTON (Jiji Press) — Japan and the United States remained apart in working-level talks on a proposed bilateral trade pact that were held in Washington for two days through Tuesday. Officials f...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A government council came up with an innovation initiative Tuesday calling for full support for creating cutting-edge startups in several designated “base cities” across Ja...
The government and ruling parties are struggling to calm the furor over a report stating that an elderly couple will need savings of ¥20 million ($184,000) in addition to their pension benefits in o...
The government will accelerate efforts to launch a website and a framework to help consumers resolve problems related to online shopping and other forms of e-commerce. Called online dispute resoluti...
KAWASAKI — The man who went on a stabbing spree in Tama Ward, Kawasaki, on Tuesday used two thin knives about 30 centimeters in length, according to investigative sources. Ryuichi Iwasaki, 51, a r...
