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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.

Foreign visitors to Japan in 2023 jump over sixfold to 25.07 mil.

Tokyo's Ginza shopping district is crowded with visitors on Jan. 17, 2024. (Kyodo)

TOKYO, Jan.

Japan's Nippon Steel to buy U.S. Steel for $14. bil., world No. 3

Embattled Kishida ousts LDP's most powerful faction from Cabinet

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrives at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2023, amid a political fundraising scandal that embroiled multiple Cabinet members, including the top government spokesman. (Kyodo)

TOKYO, Dec.

Kishida mulls replacing all ministers from Abe faction: sources

TOKYO, Dec.

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