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Japan launched the National Disaster Management Agency on Monday to strengthen its preparedness for possible huge natural disasters, such as a temblor in the Tokyo metropolitan area and an eruption of Mount Fuji.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called for early stability in the Strait of Hormuz and the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb in a video message shown at an international conference in Bahrain's capital of Manama on Sunday.

The Chinese marine research ship Tongji has left the Japanese exclusive economic zone off Hateruma Island in the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa, the Japan Coast Guard said Sunday.

Foreign ministers of the Group of 20 developed and emerging economies Saturday ended their two-day meeting in Atlanta in the U.S. state of Georgia without a joint statement.

The so-called Quad countries of Japan, the United States, Australia and India on Saturday announced a plan to provide over 85 million dollars to support access to reliable artificial intelligence services in the Indo-Pacific region.

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Saturday that his country will cooperate even more closely with Saudi Arabia to restore free and safe navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Saturday that he exchanged frank opinions with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, on Russia's detention of a Japanese newspaper reporter.

Whether Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will attend deliberations at a House of Representatives committee will be crucial to efforts to pass legislation to cut the consumption tax through the lower chamber as early as Friday.

Former residents of Russian-held islands called the Northern Territories in Japan took a chartered flight Saturday to fly near the northwestern Pacific islands so that they can pay respect to their ancestors from above.

The Okinawa prefectural police in southern Japan arrested U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Kalvin Montoya Cardona, 21, of Camp Hansen on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol early on Saturday.

Japan's Omron Healthcare Co. will hike the annual production capacity for home-use blood pressure monitors by 10 times at its first Indian plant for its mainstay products, President Ayumu Okada has said.

Japan's corporate income reported in fiscal 2025 rose 16.2pctfrom the previous year to 118.9 trillion yen, hitting a record high for five years in a row, National Tax Agency data have shown.

Users of the foreign exchange margin trading service affected by a cyberattack on GMO Internet Inc. have called on the company to explain how millions of yen in assets were lost virtually overnight.

The Japanese government is expected to continue cautiously considering whether to declare that the country has fully emerged from deflation, despite the Bank of Japan's announcement Friday that underlying inflation has reached its 2pcttarget.

Foreign ministers of Japan, the United States and South Korea on Friday signed a memorandum on the Trilateral Arctic Pacific Partnership to strengthen their countries' cooperation in Arctic affairs.

The head of Doshisha, which operates Doshisha International Senior High School, has apologized over a boat accident in Okinawa Prefecture that killed a female student, at his first press conference since the March 16 accident.

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi on Friday demanded the immediate release of a reporter for Japan's Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper detained by Russian authorities, in a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, Japan's Foreign Ministry said.

Final preparations are underway to reopen the main hall of Shuri Castle in Okinawa Prefecture in November, as Saturday marked the seventh anniversary of the fire that destroyed the landmark in the southwestern Japan prefecture.

Toyota Motor Corp. said Friday that it will launch the first driverless taxis in Japan in 2027, in partnership with Waymo LLC, a unit of U.S. technology giant Alphabet Inc.

Top Vietnamese leader To Lam will address the Diet, Japan's parliament, in the House of Representatives plenary chamber on Nov. 9.

Major Japanese semiconductor manufacturer Kioxia Holdings Corp. forecast Friday that its April-December net profit will surge about 24-fold from a year earlier to 3,557.8 billion yen.

About 3,600 sets of personal information may have been compromised following unauthorized access to a network at Japan's Foreign Ministry, the ministry said Friday.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Friday reiterated her cautious stance toward the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

The Japanese government said Friday that it is considering providing around 5,000 yen a year to low-income workers under a proposed income-linked benefit program.

A public opinion poll by the Cabinet Office showed Friday that 37.5pctof Japanese want the government to strengthen disaster reduction measures, up 6.4 percentage points from last year.