China should withdraw its notice recommending its nationals not to visit Japan, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said Saturday.

Ohkawara Kakohki Co., once falsely accused of illegal exports, has filed a resident audit request with the Tokyo metropolitan government, seeking three investigators' personal liabilities for part of the damages awarded to the machinery maker.

Japan's education ministry plans to establish a fund for high school education reform in each of the 47 prefectures, totaling some 300 billion yen.

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Saturday marked the 70th anniversary of its establishment.

China has urged its citizens not to visit Japan in an apparent retaliatory step against Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's recent remark about a potential Taiwan contingency.

Japanese motor giant Nidec Corp. has said that its consolidated operating profit fell 82.5pctfrom a year earlier to 21.1 billion yen for the six months to September, hurt by massive losses at its automotive products business.

Takashi Tachibana, who heads a controversial political group criticizing Japan Broadcasting Corp., or NHK, has decided to admit his guilt in a high-profile libel case, according to his lawyer.

With Saturday marking 48 years since the abduction of a 13-year-old Japanese girl by North Korea, time appears to be running out for Japan to resolve the abduction issue.

A new facility equipped with a three-screen display opened Friday at the National Museum of Territory and Sovereignty in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward, aiming to help visitors to learn about Japan's territory through immersive video presentations.

Japan's three megabank groups enjoyed a combined net profit of 2,916.4 billion yen in April-September, up 14.4pctfrom a year before, thanks to higher interest rates, their earnings reports showed Friday.

Japan's average retail rice price hit a new record high for the first time in about six months last week, as newly harvested rice fully hit the market, the agriculture ministry said Friday.

The suspect in the 1999 murder of a Nagoya housewife has told police that she disliked the way the victim's husband thought about women and child-rearing, investigative sources said Friday.

A professor and a lawyer on Friday challenged a decision by Japanese public prosecutors not to indict Hyogo Governor Motohiko Saito on charges of violating the public offices election law.

Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Shinichi Uchida is in hospital for leukemia treatment, the central bank said Friday.

Combined beer sales at three major brewers in Japan excluding Asahi Breweries Ltd. jumped 18pctyear on year in October, an industry estimate has shown.

The Japanese government will study regulations on the purchasing of prostitution including creating punishments, Justice Minister Hiroshi Hiraguchi said Friday.

More job-hunting university students in Japan secured informal job offers as of Oct. 1 than a year before amid continued labor shortages, the labor and education ministries said Friday.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Friday unveiled plans to increase financial aid from summer levels to lower household electricity and gas bills this winter.

Niigata Governor Hideyo Hanazumi inspected Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station on Friday, before making a decision on whether to approve the restart of a reactor at the plant in the central Japan prefecture.

The main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan on Friday proposed an 8.9-trillion-yen economic package, including cash benefits to households struggling with high prices.