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BOJ steady on policy ahead of wage talks, more upbeat about inflation

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda speaks at a press conference after a Policy Board meeting in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2024. (Kyodo)

TOKYO, Jan.

Power outage hits bullet train service in Tokyo, other parts of Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows passengers disembarking from a shinkansen bullet train stopped on the tracks in Saitama, near Tokyo, on Jan. 23, 2024. (Kyodo)

TOKYO, Jan.

Elementary, junior high schools reopen as quake recovery continues

Junior high school students in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, go to school on Jan. 22, 2024, as classes resume after the city in central Japan's Noto Peninsula was hit hard by a powerful earthquake on Jan. 1. (Kyodo)

KANAZAWA, Japan, Jan.

Princess Aiko to work at Japanese Red Cross Society from April

Princess Aiko, the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, is pictured on Nov. 24, 2023, at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. (Photo courtesy of Imperial Household Agency)(No trimming allowed)(Kyodo)

Princess Aiko to work at Japanese Red Cross Society from April

LDP panel to seek faction disbandment in event of funds law violation

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C, back) attends a reform panel of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on Jan. 22, 2024. (Kyodo)

Japan signs contract with U.S. on Tomahawk missile purchase

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel (L) and Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara are pictured together at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 18, 2024. (Kyodo)

TOKYO, Jan.

Japan, U.S. arranging summit around April 10: sources

TOKYO, Jan.

Prosecutors to build case on Kishida faction over LDP funds scandal

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to reporters at his office in Tokyo on Jan. 18, 2024. (Kyodo)

TOKYO, Jan.

JAL taps ex-flight attendant Tottori as 1st female president

Japan Airlines Co. President Yuji Akasaka (L) and senior managing executive officer and former flight attendant Mitsuko Tottori are pictured at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 17, 2024. (Kyodo)

TOKYO, Jan. 17 Kyodo - Japan Airlines Co. on Wednesday tapped former flight attendant Mitsuko Tottori to become its first female president in April.

Quake chaos forces Wajima kids to leave families to continue studies

Junior high school students wave to their families from a bus in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Jan. 17, 2023, as they leave their badly damaged hometown to study some 100 kilometers away after a powerful earthquake hit the central Japan prefecture. (Kyodo)

KANAZAWA, Japan, Jan.

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