The rate at which the students secured job offers remained high due to labor shortages, though it fell from a year earlier in the first decline in five years.

Higher yields attracted buyers, easing concerns that rising oil prices and inflation risks would damp appetite.

Under Japanese law, sterilization surgery for women can be performed only when specific health risks are present.

Scenes of Mori, a historian, and Obama hugging in May 2016, during Obama's visit to Hiroshima — the first by a sitting U.S. president — were reported by media outlets worldwide.