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The prefectural government of Shizuoka, central Japan, said Wednesday it will launch an online registration system for Mount Fuji climbers on June 10.

The Bank of Japan said Wednesday that unrealized losses on its holdings of Japanese government bonds swelled to 9,433.7 billion yen at the end of fiscal 2023 from 157.1 billion yen a year earlier, hitting a record high for the end of a fiscal year.

Executives of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the Communist Party of China agreed Wednesday to resume a dialogue between the two countries' ruling parties, which was last held in 2018.

Japanese retail giant Seven & i Holdings Co. paid 7,732 million yen in executive compensation to senior managing executive officer Joseph Michael DePinto in the year ended February, the company's financial report showed Wednesday.

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday approved operating life extensions of up to 20 years for two more reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture.

Japan's transport ministry plans to allow bus, train and other transportation companies, in addition to taxi firms, to operate ride-hailing services, it was learned Wednesday.