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Tokyo, Sept. 11 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Justice Ministry plans to launch a pilot program to track sex offenders on parole with GPS devices from as early as fiscal 2027, which begins next April, officials said Friday. Justice Minister Hiroshi Hiraguchi told a press conference Friday that expenses related to the pilot program were included in the ministry's fiscal 2027 budget request. Only p...
Tokyo, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)--Japan's National Police Agency said Thursday that it will set up an expert panel to discuss adding the security sector to the Employment for Skill Development Program for foreign workers, which will start in April 2027 to replace the technical intern training program. The panel will also consider adding the security sector to the residency program for foreign w...
Tokyo, Sept. 9 (Jiji Press)--Centrist Reform Alliance leader Junya Ogawa announced on Wednesday that the Japanese opposition party will disband after completing liquidation procedures. At an extraordinary meeting of party executives on the day, the CRA decided on its dissolution following the failure of its planned merger with the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Komeito. The...
Tokyo, Sept. 8 (Jiji Press)--Members of the opposition Centrist Reform Alliance from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan are considering forming a new party after leaving the CRA following the failure of a planned merger among the CRA, the CDP and Komeito, it was learned Tuesday. CRA members from Komeito are expected to leave the CRA and return to Komeito by the end of this month a...
Tokyo, Sept. 8 (Jiji Press)--Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party decided at a meeting of party executives on Tuesday to give LDP President and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi discretion over a renewal of the party leadership. If the government adopts a fiscal 2027 tax system reform package, including a plan to lower the consumption tax rate on food, at a cabinet meeting on Sept. 15, Takai...
South Korean citizens’ groups have called for the abuse of wartime ‘comfort women’ to be recognised by Unesco, as analysts say the ongoing feud between Seoul and Tokyo threatens to upset recent improvements in their relations. They also suggest that the two nations would benefit from working together at a time of unprecedented regional and global security and economic challenges, although they admit that may be impossible. On Sunday, a coalition of South Korean citizens’ groups called on the...
Tokyo, Sept. 7 (Jiji Press)--Takeshi Niinami, former chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, or Keizai Doyukai, has criticized Japan's social trend of labeling people suspected of wrongdoing as guilty before the facts are known. In September last year, the 67-year-old resigned as Keizai Doyukai chief and as chairman of Japanese beverage giant Suntory Holdings Ltd., after ...
Tokyo, Sept. 6 (Jiji Press)--Democratic Party for the People leader Yuichiro Tamaki won a third term in the Japanese opposition party's leadership election Sunday. In the election, held at an extraordinary party convention in Tokyo, Tamaki, 57, defeated his sole opponent, Mikihiko Hashimoto, 30, a member of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament. ...