The Bank of Japan decided to keep its monetary policy unchanged at a two-day Policy Board meeting that ended Friday after a major shift in March.Oleh 時事通信社

Japan and the European Union on Tuesday confirmed they will deepen cooperation in the field of regulation of digital giants' online services.Oleh 時事通信社

Japanese authorities are believed to have conducted yen-buying, dollar-selling foreign exchange market intervention worth some 5 trillion yen Monday, it was learned Tuesday.Oleh 時事通信社

Chugoku Electric Power Co. said Tuesday that the planned restart of the No. 2 reactor at its Shimane nuclear power plant in western Japan will be delayed by about four months from August.Oleh 時事通信社

The Japanese government has decided to skip submitting a bill on "active cyber defense," or detecting signs of cyberattacks and taking pre-emptive measures, during the current session of the Diet, it was learned on Tuesday.Oleh 時事通信社

Japanese semiconductor materials maker JSR Corp. said Tuesday that it swung to a consolidated net loss of 5.5 billion yen in fiscal 2023 as the anemic chip market caused a sales drop.Oleh 時事通信社

Five major Japanese securities houses have reported improvements in their bottom lines in fiscal 2023, reflecting brisk trading demand from retail investors thanks to higher stock prices.Oleh 時事通信社

Diario Brasil Nippou, the last remaining Japanese-language newspaper in Brazil, is struggling to keep its presses rolling.Oleh 時事通信社

Japan's industry ministry plans to ask the town of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, on Wednesday to accept a "literature survey" for a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear plants, it was learned Tuesday.Oleh 時事通信社

A Japanese government panel is reviewing the system allowing food products to be labeled as having specific health benefits, in the wake of deaths and hospitalizations of users of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co.'s dietary supplements containing "beni koji" red yeast rice.Oleh 時事通信社

Prices will be raised for 417 products of 195 major food and beverage makers in Japan in May, down by 50.2pctfrom 837 products a year before, research firm Teikoku Databank Ltd. said in a survey released Tuesday.Oleh 時事通信社

Japan's Ono Pharmaceutical Co. said Tuesday that it will buy U.S. startup Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc. to strengthen its research and development capabilities in the field of oncology.Oleh 時事通信社

The number of vacant homes in Japan stood at nine million as of Oct. 1 last year, hitting a record high, an internal affairs ministry survey showed Tuesday.Oleh 時事通信社

Top Japanese bridal fashion designer Yumi Katsura has died at the age of 94, it was learned Tuesday.Oleh 時事通信社

Some local governments in Japan are introducing or testing a selective four-day workweek to secure talent amid the diversification of lifestyles.Oleh 時事通信社

Japan's industrial production in March jumped 3.8pctfrom the previous month, rising for the first time in three months as vehicle output rebounded after months of sluggishness amid test fraud scandals, the industry ministry said Tuesday.Oleh 時事通信社

A man who is suspected of ordering the disposal of the bodies of a Tokyo couple has said that he was given instructions by another person, investigative sources said Tuesday.Oleh 時事通信社

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, also president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said Tuesday he takes "seriously" the party's defeat in all three House of Representatives by-elections held Sunday.Oleh 時事通信社

Japan's average ratio of effective job openings to seekers fell 0.02 point in fiscal 2023 from the previous year to 1.29, the first decline in three years, the labor ministry said Tuesday.Oleh 時事通信社

Climate, energy and environment ministers of the Group of Seven major economies on Monday agreed in principle to abolish coal-fired power generation by 2030-2035, Andrew Bowie, Britain's minister for energy security and net zero, told Class CNBC of Italy in an interview.Oleh 時事通信社

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian on Monday slammed a marine survey conducted by a Japanese city around the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands as an act of provocation.Oleh 時事通信社

Japanese police on Monday arrested a 28-year-old man for allegedly damaging the bodies of a couple from Tokyo, which were found burned near a river in the town of Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan.Oleh 時事通信社

The Japanese government announced on Monday a list of 4,108 people recognized for this year's spring honors, including former Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda, 79, who was given the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure.Oleh 時事通信社

Elliott Management Corp. of the United States, known as an activist investor, has invested several tens of billions of yen to build a large stake in Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp., Bloomberg reported Sunday.Oleh 時事通信社

As many as 40pctof voters in Sunday's House of Representatives by-elections in Japan want Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to step down "as soon as possible," an exit poll by Jiji Press showed.Oleh 時事通信社

The main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan is certain to win all three by-elections for the House of Representatives on Sunday.Oleh 時事通信社

East Japan Railway Co., or JR East, has announced that it has drawn up a policy for dealing with "customer harassment," or excessive demands and other problematic behavior by customers toward employees.Oleh 時事通信社

Voting is underway in three House of Representatives by-elections in Japan on Sunday, with results expected in the night.Oleh 時事通信社

As the yen continues to fall against other major currencies, the focal point is when the Japanese government and the Bank of Japan will intervene in the currency market to support the yen.Oleh 時事通信社

Major Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp. is in the final stages of talks to sell all of its shareholdings in KFC Holdings Japan Ltd. to U.S. investment fund Carlyle Group, informed sources have said.Oleh 時事通信社

Major Japanese telecommunications carrier KDDI Corp. has said that its tender offer for convenience store operator Lawson Inc. has ended successfully.Oleh 時事通信社

A memorial ceremony has been held in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, for the 264 victims of the 1994 China Airlines plane crash in Japan.Oleh 時事通信社

Two Chinese coast guard vessels entered Japanese waters off the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture on Saturday, marking the third straight day of such an intrusion and the 13th such incident this year.Oleh 時事通信社

The man arrested over the discovery of the burned bodies of a Tokyo couple in the town of Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, has suggested that he received more than 10 million yen from a person who told him to dispose of the bodies, informed sources said.Oleh 時事通信社

Japan Airlines has canceled a flight from Dallas to Tokyo after its captain got drunk at a hotel in the U.S. city and was warned by local police.Oleh 時事通信社

The Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo, held an annual May Day rally in Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on Saturday, reaffirming that union members and others will work together to improve workers' livelihoods.Oleh 時事通信社

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida expressed his determination to maintain inflation-beating wage growth at a May Day event in Tokyo on Saturday.Oleh 時事通信社

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako are making preparations to visit Britain as state guests in late June, the Imperial Household Agency said Saturday.Oleh 時事通信社

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party submitted to both chambers of the country's parliament Friday its opinion supporting as "necessary" two government proposals to secure a sufficient number of Imperial Family members.Oleh 時事通信社

Japanese lawmakers began discussions Friday on revising the political funds control law in the wake of a high-profile slush funds scandal involving the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.Oleh 時事通信社

The heart function of crab-eating macaques that had experienced heart attacks returned after transplants of clusters of heart muscle cells made from human induced pluripotent stem, or iPS, cells, a Japanese research team said Friday.Oleh 時事通信社

Oriental Land Co., the operator of the Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea theme parks, on Friday posted a record consolidated net profit for the year through last month, driven by an increased number of visitors.Oleh 時事通信社

Yukio Kasaya, a Japanese ski jumping legend who won a gold medal at the Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo in 1972, died of ischemic heart disease at a hospital in the Hokkaido prefectural capital on Tuesday. He was 80.Oleh 時事通信社

ANA Holdings Inc. on Friday posted a record consolidated operating profit of 207.9 billion yen for the year through last month as the Japanese airline saw higher passenger volume for both domestic and international routes on the back of brisk travel demand.Oleh 時事通信社

NTT Docomo Inc. plans to promote Senior Executive Vice President Yoshiaki Maeda to president and CEO, people familiar with the matter said Friday.Oleh 時事通信社

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said Friday that the central bank "will raise its policy interest rate if the country's underlying inflation rate rises toward 2 pct."Oleh 時事通信社

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will visit France and the two South American countries of Brazil and Paraguay from Wednesday through May 6, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said at a press conference Friday.Oleh 時事通信社

Leaks of national security-related specially designated secrets have occurred once each at the Japanese Ground and Maritime Self-Defense Forces, the Defense Ministry said Friday.Oleh 時事通信社

There were 47 child abuse cases apparently reflecting parents' religious beliefs in Japan between April 2022 and September 2023, a Children and Families Agency survey showed Friday.Oleh 時事通信社

Core consumer prices in central Tokyo gained 1.6pctfrom a year before in April, marking the slowest increase in 25 months, the internal affairs ministry said Friday.Oleh 時事通信社