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1 October – Shigeru Ishiba is sworn in as the 102nd prime minister of Japan and the Ishiba Cabinet is formed. [122] 2 October – The Nintendo Museum, the first museum dedicated to the history of Nintendo opens in Uji, Kyoto. [123] A bomb that was dropped during World War II explodes on a taxiway at Miyazaki Airport, cancelling more than 80 ...
June 1–29 – The 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup is co-hosted by the West Indies and the United States, and is won by India. [133] June 2 – The 2024 Mexican general election is held, with Claudia Sheinbaum elected as president of Mexico. [134] June 5 – Starliner Crewed Flight Test launches atop an Atlas V rocket to the ISS. [135] [136]
Japan has a total fertility rate of 1.4, which is below the replacement rate of 2.1, and is among the world's lowest; [236] it has a median age of 48.4, the highest in the world. [237] As of 2020, over 28.7 percent of the population is over 65, or more than one in four out of the Japanese population. [234]
The 2024 J2 League, also known as the 2024 Meiji Yasuda J2 League (Japanese: 2024 明治安田J2リーグ, Hepburn: 2024 Meiji Yasuda J2 Rīgu) for sponsorship reasons, was the 26th season of the J2 League, the second-tier Japanese professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1999. It was the tenth season of ...
By 1972 Japan's surplus had climbed to US$5.1 billion, despite the reevaluation of the yen in 1971. The jump in prices of petroleum and other raw materials during 1973 plunged the balance of trade into deficit, and in 1974 the deficit reached US$6.6 billion. With strong export growth, however, this was reversed to a surplus of US$2.4 billion in ...
Japan External Trade Organization (日本貿易振興機構, Nihon Bōeki Shinkōkikō, also ジェトロ; JETRO) is an Independent Administrative Institution established by Japan Export Trade Research Organization as a nonprofit corporation in Osaka in February 1952, reorganized under the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in 1958 (later the Ministry of Economy, Trade and ...
The general cargo section of the port has five terminals: one for bulk cargo, one for timber, one for construction materials, one for log handling and one for linear products with a storage area of 900,000 m 2, a quay length of 3,500 metres, storage for 200,000 cubic metres of timber and storage for 210,000 tonnes of logs.
Sojitz Corporation (Japanese: 双日株式会社, Hepburn: Sōjitsu Kabushiki-gaisha) is a sogo shosha (general trading company) based in Tokyo, Japan.It is engaged in a wide range of businesses globally, including buying, selling, importing, and exporting goods, manufacturing and selling products, providing services, and planning and coordinating projects, in Japan and overseas.