Japan Govt Seeks Website Block after GMO Cyberattack

The Japanese government has requested that telecommunications carriers forcibly deny access to a website believed to be behind a cyberattack on GMO Internet Inc., people familiar with the matter said ...

2 Japanese Names on Passenger Lists in Spanish Train Crash

Spanish authorities have informed Tokyo that the names of two Japanese nationals were on the passenger lists for the high-speed trains involved in a fatal crash that happened in Spain on Wednesday, Ja ...

EXCLUSIVE: Japan to Allow Incapacitated Local Chiefs to Resign

Japan's internal affairs ministry plans to allow deputy leaders of local governments to determine, based on doctors' diagnoses, the resignation of prefectural governors or municipal mayors who have be ...

Quake Hits Japan's Chiba Pref.; No Tsunami Observed

An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 5.5 struck Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, around 12:07 a.m. Thursday, with no tsunami reported. A seismic intensity of lower 5, the fifth-highest level ...

Japan Govt, German Firm to Cooperate on Offshore Wind Power

Japan's industry ministry has signed a memorandum of cooperation with a German energy firm on wind power generation. Under the memorandum, inked Wednesday, the ministry and Siemens Energy AG will join ...

N. Korea Fires Some 10 Ballistic Missiles into Sea of Japan

North Korea fired some 10 short-range ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan on Thursday, the South Korean military's Joint Chiefs of Staff said. A Japanese Defense Ministry official said the miss ...

Chinese Coast Guard, Navy Vessels Pass thru Japanese Strait

A Chinese coast guard ship has passed through the Osumi Strait off Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, along with three Chinese naval ships including missile destroyers, the Japanese Defense ...

Japan Ruling Bloc, DPFP Agree to Shed 31 Lower House Seats

The secretaries-general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, its Japan Innovation Party ally and the opposition Democratic Party for the People signed on Thursday an agreement on a reform of ...

Germany to Accelerate Study on Joining Japan-Linked GCAP

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Wednesday that he and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi agreed at their meeting in Tokyo the same day to promptly study the possibility of Germany joining a ...

Loan Contracts for Japan's U.S. Investments Reach 69 B. Dlrs

Loan contracts had been signed for projects totaling 69 billion dollars as of the end of September, out of 130 billion dollars' worth of U.S. investment projects already announced under the Japan-U.S.

LDP Proposes Scaling Down Gasoline Subsidies

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has proposed scaling back subsidies aimed at curbing surges in gasoline prices in stages from December. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi received the proposal from ...

U.S. Defense Sec. Mentions Japan's Defense Spending: Koizumi

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has said that U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth mentioned Japan's defense spending at their meeting in the Philippine city of Cebu on Wednesday. "We didn't ...