HEADLINES Tokyo, Aug. 12 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average recorded a fresh all-time high Tuesday, thanks partly to receding uncertainty over...
ByTomas Kauer - News ModeratorAugust 12, 2025HEADLINES Tokyo, Aug. 12 (Jiji Press)–One out of 2.9 applicants passed employment examinations for Japan’s career-track national public servants in fiscal 2025, the...
ByTomas Kauer - News ModeratorAugust 12, 2025HEADLINES Tokyo, Aug. 12 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average surged over 1,000 points to hit a record intraday high above 42,800...
ByTomas Kauer - News ModeratorAugust 12, 2025HEADLINES Kumamoto, Aug. 11 (Jiji Press)–The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a heavy rain emergency warning to parts of Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, temporarily...
ByTomas Kauer - News ModeratorAugust 12, 2025HEADLINES By Adriana Reinecke Washington, Aug. 12 (Jiji Press)–Former International Monetary Fund Chief Economist Maurice Obstfeld has advised Japan to strengthen its cooperation...
ByTomas Kauer - News ModeratorAugust 12, 2025HEADLINES Ueno, Gunma Pref., Aug. 12 (Jiji Press)–Victims of the 1985 crash of a Japan Airlines jumbo jet were remembered on the mountainous...
ByTomas Kauer - News ModeratorAugust 12, 2025HEADLINES New York, July 4 (Jiji Press)–Miki Sudo won the women’s title at the Nathan’s Famous annual hot dog eating contest in New...
ByTomas Kauer - News ModeratorAugust 12, 2025HEADLINES Kagoshima, July 4 (Jiji Press)–The first group of evacuees from Akusekijima arrived at a port in Kagoshima, a city in southwestern Japan,...
ByTomas Kauer - News ModeratorAugust 12, 2025HEADLINES Tokyo, July 4 (Jiji Press)–A record 80 pct of mothers in Japan had a job in 2024, a welfare ministry survey showed...
ByTomas Kauer - News ModeratorAugust 12, 2025HEADLINES Tokyo, July 5 (Jiji Press)–While Japan is set to hold a House of Councillors election on July 20, debates among political parties...
ByTomas Kauer - News ModeratorAugust 12, 2025