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Japan's greenhouse gas emissions in fiscal 2024 fell 1.9pctfrom the previous year to a record low of about 1,046 million tons in terms of carbon dioxide, the Environment Ministry said Tuesday.

The Japanese government is planning to present to a ruling party meeting Wednesday a modified draft of a bill aimed at revising the country's retrial system, it has been learned.

During a search for a missing boy, Kyoto prefectural police on Monday found a body that may be that of a child in the mountains in the city of Nantan in the western Japan prefecture.

Japan Post Co. said Monday that it will resume accepting certain parcels addressed to the United States starting Tuesday, after suspending the service last August.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Pakistani counterpart, Shehbaz Sharif, agreed Monday to work together to ease at an early date tensions in the Middle East caused by the U.S.-Israeli strikes against Iran.

Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force held an event Monday to mark the establishment of two new offices for promoting the use of drones and other unmanned equipment.

Tokyo police have arrested a former worker of a facility for children with disabilities in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, for an alleged indecent assault against a 5-year-old girl who attended the facility, it was learned Monday.

The Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, offered Monday the idea of creating an independent fiscal institution, or IFI, to provide a basis for discussions on comprehensive tax, fiscal and social security reforms in the country.

The Japanese and South Korean governments plan to hold their first two-plus-two security meeting of vice-ministerial officials from their foreign and defense ministries in Seoul in early May, informed sources said Monday.

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara expressed hope for an early U.S.-Iran agreement to end their conflict on Monday, after Washington and Tehran failed to reach an agreement over the weekend.