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Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. will start removing nuclear fuel from the spent fuel pool at the No. 2 reactor of its tsunami-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Tuesday, it was learned Monday.

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Monday approved a bill that criminalizes vandalism of the Japanese national flag.

Japan will launch an investigation to judge whether antidumping duties need to be imposed on steel products from China, South Korea and Taiwan, the finance and industry ministries said Monday.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan agreed Monday to put the government's fiscal 2026 supplementary budget bill to a vote by a House of Councillors committee on Friday and then to a vote by the full Upper House later that day.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi held telephone talks with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday, calling for maximum flexibility to end the U.S.-Iran conflict.

The Japanese government plans to promote public knowledge about gender and sexual diversity through a multilayered approach in its first basic program designed to promote understanding of LGBT people and other sexual minorities, a draft showed Monday.

Japanese convenience store chain FamilyMart Co. made newly installed automated teller machines developed by Seven Bank available for use by store visitors Monday.

Japanese experts have been helping Sri Lanka restore a huge amount of flood-soaked court documents.

China's coast guard said Monday that it has conducted patrols in waters east of Taiwan, in response to the decision by Japan and the Philippines last week to begin talks to delimit a maritime boundary between the two countries.

SoftBank Group Corp. became the most valuable Japanese company on Monday, ending Toyota Motor Corp.'s 22-year reign.