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Saga Governor Yoshinori Yamaguchi said Tuesday that the southwestern Japan prefecture has no plan to host a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants.

Japan's House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill aimed at introducing in the country a system that allows divorced parents to share custody of their children.

The official campaign period for by-elections for the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Japanese parliament, started in Tokyo and the two prefectures of Shimane and Nagasaki on Tuesday.

A Japanese government annual foreign policy report released Tuesday highlighted the country's policy of strengthening trilateral cooperation with the United States and the Philippines to better counter China's increasing coercive actions.

A pure gold tea bowl that was stolen last week while being showcased in an event at a department store in Tokyo has been found at an antique shop in the Japanese capital, police said.

Finance ministers from Japan, the United States and South Korea are expected to hold their first trilateral meeting on the sidelines of a Group of 20 meeting in Washington this week, it was learned Monday.