Kumamoto, Aug. 3 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Monday that the government will designate last week's major earthquake in the southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto as a disaster of extreme severity to provide more state aid for efforts to restore

Tokyo, Aug. 2 (Jiji Press)--Some officials of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's administration have floated the idea of compiling a second supplementary budget for fiscal…

Residents of Japan’s quake-hit southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto are working to clear their homes in intense heat, as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi briefly visited Kumamoto…