ANTARA NEWS
 
The Makassar city government is partnering with Maniwa City, Japan, and Yachiyo Engineering Co., Ltd. to develop renewable energy through sustainable waste management practices.
Makassar Mayor Munafri Arifuddin welcomed the initiative as a major step in transforming the city’s waste...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The government said Tuesday that an election for the House of Councilors, the upper chamber of parliament, will take place on July 20.
The official campaign period will start on July 3 in the election for the 248-seat Upper House, in which 125 seats — 75 in constituencies and 50 und...

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NIPPON
 
Japan's Financial Services Agency will promote Yutaka Ito, director-general of the Supervision Bureau, to commissioner of the agency, effective on July 1, the government said Tuesday.
Ito, 61, will face challenges including promoting the reorganization of regional banks and expanding the...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company's lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.
Officials for ispace announced the news from Tokyo on Tuesday. The crash landing was the second for ispace in two years.
This time, the company’s lander named Resi...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
"Long ago, rock was a symbol of the anti-establishment...Using words, not guitars, as our weapons today, politics is what rocks!"
That's the marketing message of Sanseito, a new right-wing populist party in Japan known for its stance against immigrants and coronavirus measures as we...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Japan has canceled a regular high-level meeting with its key ally the United States after the Trump administration demanded it spend more on defense, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had been expected to m...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
A total of 87 Japanese nationals and their family members have evacuated from Iran and Israel amid conflict in the Middle East, the Japanese government said Friday.
The evacuees arrived in Azerbaijan's capital Baku and Jordan's capital Amman by bus as local airports remained closed ...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has called for expanding exchanges between Japan and South Korea as this year marks the 60th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between the two neighboring countries.
"We want to pass on the baton of exchanges we have nurtured to t...

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NIPPON
 
Japanese ruling and opposition parties are gearing up for a House of Councillors election, expected to take place on July 20, as the current parliamentary session ends without an extension on Sunday.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is striving to lead his ruling Liberal Democratic Party to...

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NIPPON
 
The Japanese government will survey rice farmers about their production intentions for the next year as well as in five and 10 years, agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Thursday.
By understanding farmers' medium- and long-term plans on planting areas and others, the government ai...

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