TOKYO -
The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Japan's core consumer prices in Sept. rise 2.1% on year
TOKYO - Japan's core consumer prices in September rose 2.1 percent from a year earlier, government data showed Friday.
The increase in the nationwide consumer price index, excluding volatile fresh food, followed a 1.7 percent rise in August and rose above 2 percent for the first time since December last year.
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Large, strong typhoon advancing toward southern Japan, moving to northwest
TOKYO - A large and very strong typhoon is moving in a northwesterly direction off Japan's southern islands, the weather agency said Friday, warning of possible torrential rainfall in the region.
Typhoon Champi, the year's 30th, is forecast to pass near a group of islets southwest of Okinawa Island through Saturday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
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Japan PM's party proposes fewer seat cuts than coalition partner seeks
TOKYO - Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday proposed a compromise plan that would cut fewer Diet seats than its junior coalition partner seeks and introduce a proportional seat allocation system more favorable to smaller parties.
At a meeting of parties on the electoral system, the LDP proposed cutting 31 proportional representation seats in the House of Representatives based on projected population decline, fewer than the 45 sought by the Japan Innovation Party.
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16 killed in China's Tibet Autonomous Region after M7.0 quake: report
BEIJING - An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Thursday night, killing 16 people and injuring dozens of others, Chinese state media reported.
Xinhua News Agency said that after the quake, which occurred at 10:33 p.m. at a depth of 10 kilometers, over 300 houses collapsed, citing the emergency management bureau of the southwestern city of Nagqu.
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Woman walks onto tracks, briefly halting bullet trains in central Japan
NAGOYA - Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train services were temporarily suspended Thursday between stations in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, after a woman walked onto the tracks, JR Central said.
The incident occurred around 7:55 p.m. at Shin-Fuji Station, prompting a roughly one-hour suspension of services between Mishima and Shizuoka stations, according to Central Japan Railway Co.
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi speaks with son in London for 1st time in over 5 yrs
YANGON - Detained former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi spoke by telephone Thursday with her son in Britain for the first time in more than five years, the Myanmar government and her son said.
Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest, spoke with her younger son, Kim Aris, for 20 minutes starting at 2:30 p.m. Myanmar time while he was at Myanmar's embassy in London, a government spokesperson said in a statement.
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Game developer Capcom, services provider GMO report customer data leaks
OSAKA - Game developer Capcom Co. and internet services provider GMO Internet Group Inc. said Thursday that customer information had been leaked or may have been compromised following unauthorized access to their servers, the latest in a spate of data breaches affecting Japanese firms.
Capcom said about 11.77 million email addresses from its Capcom ID service, which allows registered users around the world to play games online, had been compromised.
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Baseball: Giants draft 14-yr-old junior high student as development player
TOKYO - The Yomiuri Giants selected 14-year-old junior high school catcher Rentaro Seki with their fifth pick in Thursday's developmental draft, making him the youngest player ever chosen in Japanese professional baseball.
The previous record belonged to pitcher Kento Tsujimoto, drafted by the Hanshin Tigers at age 15 in 2004. Seki attends junior high school in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, and represented Japan at this year's Under-15 Baseball World Cup.
