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An 11-company consortium led by Mitsui Fudosan Co. will build a stadium as part of a 900-billion-yen project to redevelop the site of the former Tsukiji wholesale market in Tokyo's Chuo Ward, the metropolitan government said Friday.

The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven major democracies on Friday urged Iran and Israel to prevent further escalation after direct attacks between them.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield visited an atomic bomb museum in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Friday.

More unexpected compounds have been found in some of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co.'s supplements containing "beni koji" red fermented rice, which are allegedly behind a series of health problems, it was learned Friday.

Nissan Motor Co. said Friday that it has lowered its consolidated operating profit forecast for the year ended last month by 90 billion yen to 530 billion yen.

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Friday adopted a view that two proposals by a government expert panel to address the shrinking number of Imperial Family members are "reasonable," paving the way for talks on the matter between the ruling and opposition camps.