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Public prosecutors Thursday demanded the death penalty for a 30-year-old former Self-Defense Forces member over the killings of a police officer and a school security guard in 2018 in the central Japan city of Toyama.

Ryohin Keikaku Co., the operator of the Muji retail chain, said Thursday that the company's failure to delete unnecessary customer credit card information was a factor behind a data breach involving up to 1.09 million credit card records through unauthorized access.

Fraudulent fire insurance claims involving employees of Tama Home Co. allegedly occurred at multiple branches of the Japanese housing maker, people familiar with the matter said Thursday.

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, its coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party, and the opposition Democratic Party for the People on Thursday jointly submitted a bill to the House of Representatives to cut the number of proportional representation seats in the lower chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament, by 31.

Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department has arrested five people in a crackdown on rip-offs targeting foreign visitors at restaurants and bars in Tokyo's Kabukicho nightlife district.

Major Japanese department stores will sell "fukubukuro" lucky bags for their New Year's sale next year, with many featuring frozen foods and gourmet ingredients.

The Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association has issued a statement calling for the immediate release of a Japanese journalist who was detained by Russian authorities nearly a month ago.

Beer sales at four major makers in Japan surged 22pctin October from a year earlier apparently because of a tax cut, industry officials said Thursday.

Japan's top currency diplomat on Thursday warned against a rapid fall of the yen, saying "it is still too early to forget the memory of this summer" when currency authorities stepped into the market.

Japan's producer prices in October rose 7.1pctfrom a year earlier, after a 6.8pctrise in the previous month, as rising crude oil prices sent those for oil, coal and chemical products higher, the Bank of Japan said Thursday.

Japan House London on Wednesday kicked off an exhibition displaying exuberant "Yankii" rebellious youth fashion seen at coming-of-age ceremonies in the southwestern Japan city of Kitakyushu.

A senior Russian official has tried to justify the government's decision to place Japan Tobacco Inc.'s assets in Russia under the temporary management of a Russian company.

An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been confirmed at a chicken farm in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, the prefectural government announced Thursday, marking the first bird flu case at a poultry farm in the country this season.

Japan will provide 294 million yen to improve medical services in the Palestinian territory of Gaza, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

The Kyoto prefectural government said Wednesday that a suspected case of infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected at a poultry farm in the city of Kameoka in the western Japan prefecture.