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A group of Japanese researchers have announced that they developed a deep-learning model to predict the cancer onset risk from fatty liver images.

Japanese business leader Masahiko Uotani, an executive of the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, on Thursday urged the country to introduce a selective dual surname system for married couples as soon as possible.

A recent Group of Seven agreement to use frozen Russian assets in providing 50 billion dollars in loans to Ukraine was a "great achievement," Masato Kanda, Japanese vice finance minister for international affairs, said in an interview with Jiji Press on Wednesday.

Japanese shogi sensation Sota Fujii was beaten by his challenger for his "Eio" title Thursday, losing one of the eight major titles for the first time since he dominated them in October last year.

Japan is seeing a spread of so-called welfare nail services, or nail stylists dispatched to welfare and other facilities giving manicures to elderly or disabled people.

Major League Baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani topped the annual list of favorite athletes for the third time in a row, a survey of people in Japan by Central Research Services Inc., a Jiji Press affiliate, showed Thursday.