Tokyo, July 23 (Jiji Press)--Japanese companies and households need to take risks for high investment returns to ensure sustained growth of Japan's economy as its population rapidly ages and declin

Tokyo, July 17 (Jiji Press)--Jibun Bank, Japan's first bank
specializing in offering banking services online through mobile phones, started operations on Thursday.

Tokyo, July 11 (Jiji Press)--Japan's health ministry plans toregulate the sales of colored contact lenses in the country by designating them as medical devices, following a series of reports of eye

Tokyo, June 28 (Jiji Press)--U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon,

Geneva, June 30 (Jiji Press)--The World Customs Organization at a general meeting in Geneva Saturday elected Kunio Mikuriya, a former Japanese Finance Ministry official, as its next secretary-gener

Tokyo, June 24 (Jiji Press)--The Lotte group, a Japanese
confectionery giant, has agreed with Belgium's Chocolaterie Guylian NV to acquire the premium chocolate maker.

Tokyo, June 24 (Jiji Press)--Large Japanese companies' business

Seoul, June 23 (Jiji Press)--Major carbon-emitting nations on Monday wrapped up a meeting on measures to fight global warming by working out a draft statement for adoption at their summit meeting

Nago, Okinawa Pref., June 16 (Jiji Press) - Science and technology ministers from the Group of Eight major nations on Sunday asked both the public and private sectors to step up investment for the

Aomori, June 8 (Jiji Press)--Energy ministers of 11 nations on Sunday ended their two-day meeting in this northeastern Japan city by agreeing to set up an international framework to promote energ