Tokyo (Jiji Press) — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has pledged to protect the global free trade system during Diet discussions on the tariff measures of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Japan’s biggest financial firms are abolishing decades-old practices that kept women off the corporate ladder. Nippon Life Insurance Co., Japan’s largest insurer, and MUFG Bank Ltd., a unit of ...

Under its minimum market access system, Japan imports about 770,000 tons of rice per year tariff-free, including up to 100,000 tons for consumption as staple food. The country imposes a tariff of ...

Election watchdogs called for a return to manual counting of votes in succeeding elections in the country, noting that the shift to automated election system has been prone to fraud. Former Australian ...

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Tokyo, April 23 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Wednesday pledged to protect the global free trade system during Diet discussions on the tariff measures of U.S. President ...

Japan started the operation of the heat stroke alert system on April 23 as the country braces for another sizzling summer. The move comes two days after Kumamoto and Fukuoka prefectures in ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO -- Japan has taken a major step toward revising the country's retrial system, which has been criticized as making the process of overturning a wrongful conviction excessively lengthy.

A subcommittee of the Justice Ministry's Legislative Council meets for the first time in Tokyo on April 21, 2025, to review Japan's criminal retrial system. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's ...

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