Merz open on debt question as German parties start talks
[Japan Today] - 02/28/2025
Election winner Friedrich Merz said on Friday he was open to reforming Germany's legally prescribed spending limits as his conservatives started exploratory talks on forming a coalition with…
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Japan logs 1st current account deficit in 2 years in January
Japan posted a current account deficit of 257.6 billion yen in January, marking the first red ink in two years, as (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
Toyota to halt production at Daihatsu factory after explosion at supplier
Toyota Motor Corp said Monday it will halt production at its subsidiary Daihatsu Motor Co's factory in Kyoto (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
Face-off
Stepping into the Society 5.0 exhibition at the Future City Pavilion inside the Osaka 2025 Expo venue, visitors are (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
South Africa's giant playwright Athol Fugard, whose searing works challenged apartheid, dies at 92
Athol Fugard, South Africa's foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
Actor Emily Osment files for divorce after less than 5 months of marriage
Actor Emily Osment has filed for divorce from her husband of less than five months, musician Jack Anthony Farina. (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
Trump says U.S. in talks with four groups over TikTok sale
President Donald Trump said Sunday the United States was in talks with four groups interested in acquiring TikTok, (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
Ontario slaps 25% tax increase on electricity exports to US in response to Trump's trade war
Ontario's premier, the leader of Canada’s most populous province, announced that effective Monday it is charging 25% (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
Japan auctions emergency rice reserves as prices soar
The Japanese government began a rare auction on Monday of its emergency rice stockpiles in a bid to help drive down (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
Swiatek, Medvedev advance to Indian Wells fourth round
Defending champion Iga Swiatek edged closer to an unprecedented third straight Indian Wells WTA title Sunday, (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
Elderly survivors of Tokyo firebombing 80 years ago want compensation
More than 100,000 people were killed in a single night 80 years ago Monday in the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo, the (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
South Korea prosecutors to pursue Yoon's conviction despite jail release
South Korean prosecutors will pursue President Yoon Suk Yeol's conviction for insurrection despite a court decision (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
