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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday pledged to accelerate work on rules on the disclosure of so-called policy activity funds that are proposed under a bill sponsored by his ruling party to amend the political funds control law.

Hitachi Ltd. said Monday it has developed a new technology to realize general-purpose quantum computers using conventional silicon transistors.

Tokyo's Shibuya Ward assembly on Monday unanimously approved an ordinance to ban street drinking at night around Shibuya Station, effective on Oct. 1.

Kunio Takeda, former president of Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., died of old age at a hospital in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on June 8. He was 84.

Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa on Monday expressed hopes to "pass on the baton" of his work to new astronauts, after a half-year stay on the International Space Station.

Obesity increased among junior high school students in Japan in fiscal 2020 to 2022, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a study by the National Center for Child Health and Development has shown.