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Toyota Motor Corp. on Thursday unveiled the Lexus TZ, the first electric three-row SUV for the Japanese automaker's luxury marque, slated for launch in the country in winter 2026.

Tokyo, May 7 ()削除-A Bank of Japan policymaker called for "particular attention" to the upside risks of prices at the monetary policy meeting in March, a summary of opinions at the meeting showed Thursday.

Japan's Justice Ministry has drafted a bill to bar public prosecutors "in principle" from appealing court orders to start retrials, it was learned Thursday.

The Japanese government is taking on the challenge of mining critical minerals, including rare earths, from the seabed around Minamitorishima, a Japanese remote island in the Pacific, with an eye to realize domestic rare earth production in the future.

Paavo Jarvi, a world-renowned conductor from Estonia set to receive a Japanese government honor, has condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine in a recent written interview with Jiji Press.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent plans to visit Japan from Monday through May 13 for talks with Japanese officials on foreign exchange rates and economic security, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday.

Japan's top currency diplomat said Thursday that there is no need to comment on a suspected yen-buying market intervention by Japanese authorities during the Golden Week holiday period in the country through Wednesday.

The risk of hantavirus spreading in Japan through person-to-person transmission is low, even if infected passengers from a cruise ship linked to a recent outbreak enter the country, the health ministry said Wednesday.

Over 60pctof people in Japan plan to do something for their mother or mother-in-law for Mother's Day on Sunday, a survey by Tokyo-based research company Intage Inc. has shown.

Trade ministers from the Group of Seven major industrialized countries indicated their readiness to take actions against economic coercion, in a joint communique adopted at their meeting in Paris on Wednesday.