22.12.2024 13:31 BREAKING NEWS: Japan asks Google to stop violating antitrust law: sources <FULL STORY>
==KyodoRead full story here22.12.2024 8:47 Japanese forward Shuto Machino hit a brace and set up two more as Holstein Kiel came from behind in a 5-1 mauling of Augsburg at home in the German Bundesliga on Saturday, taking his season goal tally to six.
The 25-year-old, who began the season with four goals in the promoted side's first five games through September, was back on the scoresheet after bending in a 39th-minute free-kick from 25 meters out to give his side a 4-1 lead.
Read full story here22.12.2024 8:04 A Japanese university and construction company have partnered on research to develop a lunar habitat capable of generating artificial gravity, enabling people to live on the Moon under conditions similar to those on Earth.
Kyoto University and Kajima Corp. aim to construct a ground-based prototype of the "Neo Lunar Glass," a paraboloid structure that generates gravity through rotation, by the 2030s.
Read full story here22.12.2024 7:17 Japan's Tsubaki Miki won the women's parallel slalom at a snowboarding World Cup event on Saturday for her second win of the season.
The 21-year-old came second in the qualification round to reach the last 16 and won four heats to secure the title in Davos, Switzerland, edging Michelle Dekker of the Netherlands in the final. Swiss Flurina Neva Baetschi claimed third in the non-Olympic discipline.
Read full story here22.12.2024 6:01 Toho Co., the creator and film producer behind the hit "Godzilla" series, has started using hydrogen-fired electricity for its main studio in Tokyo, becoming the first company in Japan to commercially use such power.
Jera Co., a joint venture between Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. and Chubu Electric Power Co., is the green power supplier to Toho Studios, one of the largest film studios in the country.
Read full story here22.12.2024 4:06 The Japanese government plans to revise the law to allow municipalities to authorize "emergency shootings" by hunters when animals enter populated areas, a source close to the matter said Saturday, amid a rise in bear attacks.
The planned revision to the law on wildlife protection and management is designed to enable quicker and more effective prevention compared with current measures, which allow police to only permit emergency shootings once people are in danger.
Read full story here21.12.2024 14:45 Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force will gradually resume operations of its 17 U.S.-made V-22 Ospreys, the Defense Ministry said Saturday, after they were suspended earlier this month due to safety concerns.
The suspension of flights came after U.S. forces grounded their Ospreys -- a tilt-rotor military transport and cargo aircraft -- following a recent precautionary landing. This followed a fatal crash in late 2023 in Japan that killed all eight U.S. personnel aboard.
Read full story here21.12.2024 14:28 The Saitama Wild Knights kicked off their Japan Rugby League One season in convincing fashion Saturday, beating Tokyo Sungoliath 33-12 following a brace of tries from Tomoki Osada.
Starting on the left wing, the Japan back ran in both first-half tries for head coach Robbie Deans' side as they took a 13-0 lead into the break in front of 20,263 at Ajinomoto Stadium.
Read full story here21.12.2024 14:12 Japan has unveiled a new passport design, set to become available next spring, featuring a plastic photo page with an embedded chip to enhance forgery prevention.
The new passports will be issued to applicants from March 24. The plastic page displays a sakura cherry blossom pattern that becomes visible when tilted and includes a crane watermark, the Foreign Ministry said Friday.
Read full story here21.12.2024 11:08 The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Read full story here21.12.2024 8:30 Olympic champion Ayumu Hirano claimed men's halfpipe gold and his 15-year-old compatriot Sara Shimizu won the women's title Friday as Japanese snowboarders took five of the six podium spots at the World Cup round in Colorado's Copper Mountain.
Hirano, the 2022 Beijing Olympic gold medalist, saved his best for last, scoring 97.00 points on his third and final run to clinch his seventh World Cup crown ahead of Yuto Totsuka on 94.75 and Ruka Hirano on 92.75 in a men's podium sweep for Japan.
Read full story here21.12.2024 7:11 Hiroaki Asakura, a farmer in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, learned how to be a green thumb from his father. This meant knowing the seasons for planting crops and what pesticides to apply and when. But climate change has made reliance on instinct a dangerous game.
To deal with today's reality, Japanese firms have begun supplying AI-based agricultural pest diagnosis solutions to farmers like Asakura via smartphone apps, in a bid to boost crop yields and reduce the amounts of pesticides used in cultivation.
Read full story here21.12.2024 6:54 A Japanese sake brewery will attempt to make the world's first outer space sake, creating just one bottle and donating the 100 million yen ($640,000) proceeds from its sale to domestic space development companies.
Asahi Shuzo Co. in Yamaguchi Prefecture recently said it plans to ferment rice and other raw materials used in sake making on the International Space Station. It aims to send the ingredients into orbit in late 2025.
Read full story here21.12.2024 5:17 About a quarter of Japanese firms are positive about reskilling their workers -- seen as essential for improving labor productivity -- but only a small percentage are actively taking steps toward that goal, a research institute survey found.
The government of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba views increased investment in human resource development as critical for Japan, expecting that as more people acquire new skills, their wages will rise.
Read full story here20.12.2024 13:55 South Korea's joint investigation team said Friday it has made a second request for President Yoon Suk Yeol to appear for questioning next week in connection with his short-lived declaration of martial law, after he refused to comply with a similar summons two days earlier.
The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials, one of the organizations forming the investigation team, plans to consider filing for a court warrant to detain Yoon for up to 48 hours if he continues to ignore its requests without valid grounds, according to Yonhap News Agency.
Read full story here20.12.2024 13:05 BREAKING NEWS: Foxconn in talks with Renault to acquire stakes in Nissan
==KyodoRead full story here20.12.2024 11:56 The Japanese government said Friday that it has conducted an on-site inspection of the U.S. Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo over the possible leak of so-called PFAS chemicals that may have harmful effects on human health.
Officials from the defense, foreign and environment ministries, the Tokyo metropolitan government as well as local municipalities entered the base in the morning to inspect a firefighting training area where an extinguishing agent containing PFAS is believed to have been used, according to the Japanese Defense Ministry.
Read full story here20.12.2024 11:49 New Baltimore Orioles right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano said Thursday he joined the American League club for a chance to win Major League Baseball's World Series.
The 35-year-old international free agent inked a reported one-year, $13 million contract with the Orioles, who are looking to take the next step after two straight trips to the postseason.
Read full story here20.12.2024 9:00 More than 1,000 days have passed since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Russia has occupied about 20 percent of Ukraine's territory, with their militaries engaging in fierce combat along front lines stretching for some 1,000 kilometers.
After Ukrainian forces launched a cross-border offensive into Russia's western region of Kursk in August, Moscow also made a new move by deploying North Korean troops to the area. Russian forces, meanwhile, are advancing faster in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. The United States, the largest supporter of Ukraine in the war, will have a new president in January as Donald Trump, who has called for a quick end to the conflict, returns to the White House for a nonconsecutive second term.
Read full story here20.12.2024 8:56 The Japanese government said Friday it will aim to decide by next spring on a plan for how to recycle or dispose of soil in Fukushima Prefecture that was removed during the cleanup following the 2011 nuclear disaster.
"It is an issue that Japan should tackle as a whole," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told the first ministerial meeting held to discuss the situation.
Read full story here20.12.2024 7:51 Japan's core consumer prices in November rose 2.7 percent from a year earlier, with the pace of increase expanding for the first time in three months, amid reduced government subsidies for utility bills and higher rice prices, the internal affairs ministry said Friday.
The climb in the nationwide core consumer price index, excluding volatile fresh food, followed a 2.3 percent gain in October and a 2.4 percent rise in September. The inflation rate has remained at or above the Bank of Japan's 2 percent target since April 2022.
Read full story here20.12.2024 6:20 BREAKING NEWS: Japan to act appropriately against excessive currency movements: Kato
==KyodoRead full story here20.12.2024 5:07 The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Read full story here19.12.2024 19:05 Japan's IOC presidential candidate Morinari Watanabe has proposed staging the Summer Olympics in one city from each of the five continents simultaneously to share the excitement around the world and reduce economic costs to host cities.
The 65-year-old president of the International Gymnastics Federation, the first Asian to hold the position, outlined his radical vision in his IOC candidature document released Thursday. Re-elected for a third term in October, he argued that the idea would allow many more, including smaller cities, to consider hosting the games.
Read full story here19.12.2024 19:00 The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Read full story here19.12.2024 16:44 U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is willing to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in mid-January before his return to the White House, a Japanese government source said Thursday.
Japan is looking at the feasibility of such a meeting after it received the message from the Trump side, the source added.
Read full story here19.12.2024 16:36 The Bank of Japan left interest rates unchanged Thursday in a move widely expected by the market due to a lack of clarity over wage trends at home and caution over the outlook for the U.S. economy under incoming President Donald Trump.
The central bank decided to keep its key short-term rate on hold at around 0.25 percent at the end of a two-day policy meeting. The policy rate has been kept at that level for the three consecutive meetings.
The Bank of Japan holds a session on the second day of its two-day policy-setting meeting at its headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2024, with Governor Kazuo Ueda seated at the center. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Read full story here19.12.2024 16:19 The regular Diet session will likely begin on Jan. 24, later than previously envisioned, meaning that the next House of Councillors election will also be pushed back to around July 20, administration officials said Thursday.
The revised schedule, which is still under consideration, reflects calls from the Komeito party, the junior coalition partner in the government of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, which wants to limit the negative impact of back-to-back elections on voters, the officials said.
Read full story here19.12.2024 12:40 Japan midfielder Wataru Endo was voted Liverpool's man of the match after captaining the holders in a 2-1 English League Cup quarterfinal win away to Southampton on Wednesday.
The 31-year-old national team skipper fulfilled a unique role of playing as a left-sided center-back while moving into midfield when Liverpool were on the attack, and wore the Reds' armband after Trent Alexander-Arnold was replaced at half-time at St Mary's.
Read full story here19.12.2024 12:00 BREAKING NEWS: Yen drops to 156 vs. dollar as BOJ says more data needed for rate hike
==KyodoRead full story here19.12.2024 11:44 BREAKING NEWS: Great uncertainty over U.S. economic policies under Trump: BOJ chief
==KyodoRead full story here19.12.2024 11:44 BREAKING NEWS: BOJ awaits more data to examine wage hike momentum in Japan: Ueda
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Japanese forward Shuto Machino hit a brace and set up two more as Holstein Kiel came from behind in a 5-1 mauling of Augsburg at home in the German Bundesliga on Saturday, taking his season goal tally to six.
The 25-year-old, who began the season with four goals in the promoted side's first five games through September, was back on the scoresheet after bending in a 39th-minute free-kick from 25 meters out to give his side a 4-1 lead.
Read full story here
A Japanese university and construction company have partnered on research to develop a lunar habitat capable of generating artificial gravity, enabling people to live on the Moon under conditions similar to those on Earth.
Kyoto University and Kajima Corp. aim to construct a ground-based prototype of the "Neo Lunar Glass," a paraboloid structure that generates gravity through rotation, by the 2030s.
Read full story here
Japan's Tsubaki Miki won the women's parallel slalom at a snowboarding World Cup event on Saturday for her second win of the season.
The 21-year-old came second in the qualification round to reach the last 16 and won four heats to secure the title in Davos, Switzerland, edging Michelle Dekker of the Netherlands in the final. Swiss Flurina Neva Baetschi claimed third in the non-Olympic discipline.
Read full story here
Toho Co., the creator and film producer behind the hit "Godzilla" series, has started using hydrogen-fired electricity for its main studio in Tokyo, becoming the first company in Japan to commercially use such power.
Jera Co., a joint venture between Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. and Chubu Electric Power Co., is the green power supplier to Toho Studios, one of the largest film studios in the country.
Read full story here
The Japanese government plans to revise the law to allow municipalities to authorize "emergency shootings" by hunters when animals enter populated areas, a source close to the matter said Saturday, amid a rise in bear attacks.
The planned revision to the law on wildlife protection and management is designed to enable quicker and more effective prevention compared with current measures, which allow police to only permit emergency shootings once people are in danger.
Read full story here
Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force will gradually resume operations of its 17 U.S.-made V-22 Ospreys, the Defense Ministry said Saturday, after they were suspended earlier this month due to safety concerns.
The suspension of flights came after U.S. forces grounded their Ospreys -- a tilt-rotor military transport and cargo aircraft -- following a recent precautionary landing. This followed a fatal crash in late 2023 in Japan that killed all eight U.S. personnel aboard.
Read full story here
The Saitama Wild Knights kicked off their Japan Rugby League One season in convincing fashion Saturday, beating Tokyo Sungoliath 33-12 following a brace of tries from Tomoki Osada.
Starting on the left wing, the Japan back ran in both first-half tries for head coach Robbie Deans' side as they took a 13-0 lead into the break in front of 20,263 at Ajinomoto Stadium.
Read full story here
Japan has unveiled a new passport design, set to become available next spring, featuring a plastic photo page with an embedded chip to enhance forgery prevention.
The new passports will be issued to applicants from March 24. The plastic page displays a sakura cherry blossom pattern that becomes visible when tilted and includes a crane watermark, the Foreign Ministry said Friday.
Read full story here
The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Read full story here
Olympic champion Ayumu Hirano claimed men's halfpipe gold and his 15-year-old compatriot Sara Shimizu won the women's title Friday as Japanese snowboarders took five of the six podium spots at the World Cup round in Colorado's Copper Mountain.
Hirano, the 2022 Beijing Olympic gold medalist, saved his best for last, scoring 97.00 points on his third and final run to clinch his seventh World Cup crown ahead of Yuto Totsuka on 94.75 and Ruka Hirano on 92.75 in a men's podium sweep for Japan.
Read full story here
Hiroaki Asakura, a farmer in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, learned how to be a green thumb from his father. This meant knowing the seasons for planting crops and what pesticides to apply and when. But climate change has made reliance on instinct a dangerous game.
To deal with today's reality, Japanese firms have begun supplying AI-based agricultural pest diagnosis solutions to farmers like Asakura via smartphone apps, in a bid to boost crop yields and reduce the amounts of pesticides used in cultivation.
Read full story here
A Japanese sake brewery will attempt to make the world's first outer space sake, creating just one bottle and donating the 100 million yen ($640,000) proceeds from its sale to domestic space development companies.
Asahi Shuzo Co. in Yamaguchi Prefecture recently said it plans to ferment rice and other raw materials used in sake making on the International Space Station. It aims to send the ingredients into orbit in late 2025.
Read full story here
About a quarter of Japanese firms are positive about reskilling their workers -- seen as essential for improving labor productivity -- but only a small percentage are actively taking steps toward that goal, a research institute survey found.
The government of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba views increased investment in human resource development as critical for Japan, expecting that as more people acquire new skills, their wages will rise.
Read full story here
South Korea's joint investigation team said Friday it has made a second request for President Yoon Suk Yeol to appear for questioning next week in connection with his short-lived declaration of martial law, after he refused to comply with a similar summons two days earlier.
The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials, one of the organizations forming the investigation team, plans to consider filing for a court warrant to detain Yoon for up to 48 hours if he continues to ignore its requests without valid grounds, according to Yonhap News Agency.
Read full story here
The Japanese government said Friday that it has conducted an on-site inspection of the U.S. Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo over the possible leak of so-called PFAS chemicals that may have harmful effects on human health.
Officials from the defense, foreign and environment ministries, the Tokyo metropolitan government as well as local municipalities entered the base in the morning to inspect a firefighting training area where an extinguishing agent containing PFAS is believed to have been used, according to the Japanese Defense Ministry.
Read full story here
New Baltimore Orioles right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano said Thursday he joined the American League club for a chance to win Major League Baseball's World Series.
The 35-year-old international free agent inked a reported one-year, $13 million contract with the Orioles, who are looking to take the next step after two straight trips to the postseason.
Read full story here
More than 1,000 days have passed since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Russia has occupied about 20 percent of Ukraine's territory, with their militaries engaging in fierce combat along front lines stretching for some 1,000 kilometers.
After Ukrainian forces launched a cross-border offensive into Russia's western region of Kursk in August, Moscow also made a new move by deploying North Korean troops to the area. Russian forces, meanwhile, are advancing faster in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. The United States, the largest supporter of Ukraine in the war, will have a new president in January as Donald Trump, who has called for a quick end to the conflict, returns to the White House for a nonconsecutive second term.
Read full story here
The Japanese government said Friday it will aim to decide by next spring on a plan for how to recycle or dispose of soil in Fukushima Prefecture that was removed during the cleanup following the 2011 nuclear disaster.
"It is an issue that Japan should tackle as a whole," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told the first ministerial meeting held to discuss the situation.
Read full story here
Japan's core consumer prices in November rose 2.7 percent from a year earlier, with the pace of increase expanding for the first time in three months, amid reduced government subsidies for utility bills and higher rice prices, the internal affairs ministry said Friday.
The climb in the nationwide core consumer price index, excluding volatile fresh food, followed a 2.3 percent gain in October and a 2.4 percent rise in September. The inflation rate has remained at or above the Bank of Japan's 2 percent target since April 2022.
Read full story here
The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Read full story here
Japan's IOC presidential candidate Morinari Watanabe has proposed staging the Summer Olympics in one city from each of the five continents simultaneously to share the excitement around the world and reduce economic costs to host cities.
The 65-year-old president of the International Gymnastics Federation, the first Asian to hold the position, outlined his radical vision in his IOC candidature document released Thursday. Re-elected for a third term in October, he argued that the idea would allow many more, including smaller cities, to consider hosting the games.
Read full story here
The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is willing to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in mid-January before his return to the White House, a Japanese government source said Thursday.
Japan is looking at the feasibility of such a meeting after it received the message from the Trump side, the source added.
Read full story here
The Bank of Japan left interest rates unchanged Thursday in a move widely expected by the market due to a lack of clarity over wage trends at home and caution over the outlook for the U.S. economy under incoming President Donald Trump.
The central bank decided to keep its key short-term rate on hold at around 0.25 percent at the end of a two-day policy meeting. The policy rate has been kept at that level for the three consecutive meetings.
The Bank of Japan holds a session on the second day of its two-day policy-setting meeting at its headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2024, with Governor Kazuo Ueda seated at the center. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
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The regular Diet session will likely begin on Jan. 24, later than previously envisioned, meaning that the next House of Councillors election will also be pushed back to around July 20, administration officials said Thursday.
The revised schedule, which is still under consideration, reflects calls from the Komeito party, the junior coalition partner in the government of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, which wants to limit the negative impact of back-to-back elections on voters, the officials said.
Read full story here
Japan midfielder Wataru Endo was voted Liverpool's man of the match after captaining the holders in a 2-1 English League Cup quarterfinal win away to Southampton on Wednesday.
The 31-year-old national team skipper fulfilled a unique role of playing as a left-sided center-back while moving into midfield when Liverpool were on the attack, and wore the Reds' armband after Trent Alexander-Arnold was replaced at half-time at St Mary's.
Read full story here