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  • Tokyo eyes ordinance revision to oblige companies to adopt electrified vehicles

    The Tokyo metropolitan government is planning to require companies with 200 or more vehicles for bus...

    November 29, 2021

  • Govt to support curriculum adding data science to studies of humanities graduate students

    The education ministry will from fiscal 2022 provide support for the creation of a curriculum that a...

    November 29, 2021

  • Ishin leader Matsui reappointed at party convention

    Ichiro Matsui, the leader of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party), was reappointed to the to...

    November 28, 2021

  • Motegi visits Okinawa as LDP secretary general

    NAGO, Okinawa (Jiji Press) — Toshimitsu Motegi, Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party, v...

    November 28, 2021

  • Tokyo governor Koike denies rumor of serious illness

    TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, who was recently hospitalized due to extreme fatig...

    November 27, 2021

  • Kishida calls for pay hike of over 3%

    TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida expressed hope Friday that companies will...

    November 27, 2021

  • Japan political parties’ spending down 18% in 2020

    TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Total expenditures by political parties in Japan in 2020 fell 18.4% from the pr...

    November 27, 2021

  • Japan to tighten border controls on 3 more countries

    TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Japanese government said Saturday that it will tighten border controls for ...

    November 27, 2021

  • Nippon Ishin coleader Katayama to step down due to poor health

    TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Toranosuke Katayama, coleader of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party), ...

    November 27, 2021

  • Govt adopts FY21 extra budget with record spending

    TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government adopted at an extraordinary Cabinet meeting on Friday a fiscal 2...

    November 26, 2021

  • Govt issues NTT Docomo administrative guidance

    TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan’s communications ministry issued an administrative guidance on Friday to ...

    November 26, 2021

  • Japanese ambassador to Afghanistan meets Taliban official

    TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japanese Ambassador to Afghanistan Takashi Okada held talks with Abdul Ghani Ba...

    November 25, 2021

  • Govt, ruling bloc mulling tax break on wage hikes for all employees

    TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government and ruling camp are considering requiring companies to raise the...

    November 25, 2021

  • Cultural agency to earmark ¥6.5 bil. in supplementary budget to preserve local festivals

    With local festivals and other traditional events facing a crisis amid the novel coronavirus pandemi...

    November 25, 2021

  • Japanese govt compiles textbook for fostering young bureaucrats

    The Cabinet Bureau of Personnel Affairs for the first time has compiled a textbook for national publ...

    November 23, 2021

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