Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako hosted an autumn garden party at the Akasaka Imperial Gardens in Tokyo on Wednesday afternoon, attended by about 1,400 guests, including athletes who won gold medals at the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games.Oleh 時事通信社

Oriental Land Co., the operator of the Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea theme parks, said Wednesday that its consolidated revenue rose 4.5pctin the six months ended in September from a year before to 297.2 billion yen, the highest level for the fiscal first half.Oleh 時事通信社

Tokyo District Court on Wednesday sentenced a former employee of Japanese drugmaker Daiichi Sankyo Co. to 16 years in prison for the murder of his wife by methanol poisoning in 2022.Oleh 時事通信社

The combined global vehicle production of eight major Japanese automakers fell 6pctfrom a year earlier to 11.87 million units in the April-September first half of fiscal 2024, their data showed Wednesday.Oleh 時事通信社

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party plans to start a special parliamentary session on Nov. 11 to elect a prime minister following Sunday's general election, a senior party official said Wednesday.Oleh 時事通信社

The Japanese government plans to pay up to 19,000 yen per night to national public servants when they stay in Tokyo on business trips from next April, it was learned Wednesday.Oleh 時事通信社

Japan's 10 major power utilities said Wednesday that they will raise their electricity rates for an average household by 513-650 yen in November from the previous month due to the end of a government subsidy program.Oleh 時事通信社

Intricate landforms in areas around a just restarted nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture are seen making evacuations difficult in the event of a serious accident at the plant.Oleh 時事通信社

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi urged a U.N. panel on Wednesday to withdraw its call for a revision of Japan's Imperial House Law.Oleh 時事通信社

A former colonel of the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force pleaded not guilty to an alleged breach of confidentiality in the first hearing of his trial at Tokyo District Court on Wednesday.Oleh 時事通信社

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the opposition Democratic Party for the People said Wednesday that they plan to hold a meeting of their secretaries-general and parliamentary affairs chiefs on Thursday.Oleh 時事通信社

Signs of revolt against Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba are beginning to emerge within his Liberal Democratic Party after its humiliating defeat in Sunday's general election.Oleh 時事通信社

The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Nippon Ishin no Kai ()削除, both opposition forces, agreed on Wednesday to continue discussions on the upcoming parliamentary election of prime minister.Oleh 時事通信社

Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday that its parent-only global vehicle sales in April-September fell 2.8pctfrom a year before to 5,028,830 units.Oleh 時事通信社

Tokyo High Court ruled Wednesday that Japan's Civil Code and other provisions that do not recognize same-sex marriage are unconstitutional as they violate equality before the law, which is guaranteed by the country's Constitution.Oleh 時事通信社

Japan's leisure-related market expanded 13.4pctfrom the previous year to 71,214 billion yen in 2023 after the COVID-19 pandemic, private think tank Japan Productivity Center has said.Oleh 時事通信社

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party is seen incurring a 2.5pctreduction in state subsidies to political parties for 2024 following its rout in Sunday's general election, a Jiji Press estimate has found.Oleh 時事通信社

The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Tuesday recommended that Japan revise its Imperial House Law to ensure gender equality.Oleh 時事通信社

Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co. said that Osamu Kurosaka has stepped down as chairman of the company and become consultant.Oleh 時事通信社

Japan Exchange Group Inc., which operates the Tokyo Stock Exchange, said Tuesday that it has set up a panel of independent directors to review internal controls in the wake of an insider trading case involving a TSE employee.Oleh 時事通信社

East Japan Railway Co. and West Japan Railway Co. continued to struggle with unprofitable local train lines due to a decline in the number of passengers, data released by the companies on Tuesday showed.Oleh 時事通信社

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is planning to ask the Democratic Party for the People to form a "partial alliance" with his Liberal Democratic Party, under which they would cooperate on a policy-by-policy basis following the ruling bloc's crushing defeat in Sunday's general election, informed sources said.…

Hino Motors Ltd. said Tuesday it swung to a consolidated net loss of 219.5 billion yen in the six months ended last month, marking its biggest loss for the fiscal first-half period as the company was hurt by a scandal over its vehicle test fraud.Oleh 時事通信社

Japanese police have arrested two 20-year-olds, an 18-year-old and a 17-year-old for an alleged assault that left a 20-year-old college student dead at a park in Ebetsu in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido.Oleh 時事通信社

The wife of a U.S. serviceman has been found dead in a hotel in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka, local police said Tuesday.Oleh 時事通信社

The Conservative Party of Japan, in Sunday's general election, cleared the requirement to be recognized as a political party under the public offices election and political party subsidy laws.Oleh 時事通信社

Tohoku Electric Power Co. restarted the No. 2 reactor at its Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture on Tuesday, making it the first reactor to come back online in eastern Japan since the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.Oleh 時事通信社

The Japanese government is increasingly worried about the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip after Israel's parliament voted to ban the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA, from operating in the country.Oleh 時事通信社

The Democratic Party for the People, which advanced in Sunday's general election in Japan, would ask any party to cooperate with its proposals to cut income and gasoline taxes, its leader, Yuichiro Tamaki, said Tuesday.Oleh 時事通信社

An event to promote food from the central Japan prefecture of Niigata was held in New York on Monday.Oleh 時事通信社

The number of people who were sent to a hospital over heatstroke in Japan from May to September came in at 97,578, the highest level for the five-month period since 2008 when the statistics began, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Tuesday.Oleh 時事通信社

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. President Akira Shimada said Tuesday that it is "impossible" to scrap the NTT law at the moment.Oleh 時事通信社

A 42-year-old man, believed to be a student from Taiwan, has been arrested by Tokyo police for allegedly assaulting Japanese female celebrity Haruna Kojima, it was learned Tuesday.Oleh 時事通信社

Thirty people in Japan complaining of fraud damage on Tuesday filed lawsuits against U.S. technology giant Meta Platforms Inc., formerly Facebook Inc., and its Japanese arm for failing to block fake social media ads on investment using the names and images of celebrities.Oleh 時事通信社

Hidehisa Otsuji, president of the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of Japan's parliament, has decided to resign due to a health problem, a source close to him said Tuesday.Oleh 時事通信社

Japan's seasonally adjusted ratio of effective job openings to seekers in September rose 0.01 point from the previous month to 1.24, the labor ministry said Tuesday.Oleh 時事通信社

The number of elementary to high school students who committed suicide in Japan stood at 513 in 2023, against the record high of 514 marked the previous year, a government report showed Tuesday.Oleh 時事通信社

Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H- Bomb Sufferers Organizations, said the group believes it was named this year's winner of the Nobel Peace Prize as the work of each and every hibakusha atomic bomb survivor was highly appreciated.Oleh 時事通信社

The Japanese government Tuesday decided to introduce the My Number personal identification card functioning as a driver's license for use from March 24, 2025.Oleh 時事通信社

Mitsumu Ejiri, assistant professor at Japan's National Institute of Polar Research, has been appointed the first female leader of the wintering team of a Japanese Antarctic research expedition.Oleh 時事通信社

Toyota Motor Corp. and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. plan to collaborate on research and development for a driver assistance system that utilizes next-generation optical communication infrastructure and artificial intelligence, people familiar with the matter said Monday.Oleh 時事通信社

The Japanese government and ruling bloc are considering convening a parliamentary session on Nov. 11 to elect a prime minister, coalition officials said Monday.Oleh 時事通信社

Keiichi Ishii plans to step down as leader of Komeito, the junior partner in Japan's ruling coalition, after losing his seat in Sunday's election for the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, party officials said Monday.Oleh 時事通信社

Japanese public prosecutors said on Monday that they will not object to the retrial of a 59-year-old man who served a prison sentence for the 1986 murder of a junior high school student in central Japan.Oleh 時事通信社

Some observers in the United States over Japan-U.S. relations are casting vigilant eyes on Japanese politics following the defeat of the ruling coalition led by the Liberal Democratic Party in Sunday's election for the House of Representatives, the all-important lower chamber of Japan's parliament.Oleh 時事通信社

Voter turnout for single-seat constituencies in Sunday's general election in Japan stood at 53.85 pct, the third lowest in post-World War II history, according to internal affairs ministry data released Monday.Oleh 時事通信社

Japanese real estate developer Mitsui Fudosan Co. and others on Monday started cutting down trees as part of their redevelopment plan for the Meiji Jingu Gaien area in central Tokyo.Oleh 時事通信社

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Monday that he and his ruling Liberal Democratic Party received an "extremely harsh judgment" from the electorate in the country's general election Sunday.Oleh 時事通信社

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. on Monday resumed experimental work to remove nuclear fuel debris from the No. 2 reactor at its meltdown-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan.Oleh 時事通信社

The main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan at a meeting of executives Monday decided to call on other opposition parties to cooperate for the upcoming election for the prime minister, following the ruling bloc's crushing defeat in Sunday's general election.Oleh 時事通信社