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Nikkei rebounds from losses to end at 64-month high
The benchmark Nikkei Stock Average recouped earlier losses to end at a fresh 64-month high on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday, reflecting continued bullish market ...
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Bear shot dead after entering school in Ishikawa
TV Asahi reported that the bear entered the Morimoto school building at around 7 a.m. and then ran toward the playing field. "There were already some students at school for morning sports," the principal ...
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Employment for new graduates continues improving in Japan
The employment situation for new graduates from four-year universities and other schools in Japan has been improving, a government survey revealed ...
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Man kills 3 family members then himself
Police said Friday they have found four dead bodies in an apartment in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, in what is believed to have been a family ...
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Head of Monju reactor operator quits over inspection flaws
Japan Atomic Energy Agency President Atsuyuki Suzuki resigned on Friday to take responsibility for a number of inspection flaws at the agency's Monju fast-breeder nuclear reactor in Fukui Prefecture, central ...
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Yahoo Japan suspects 22 million user IDs leaked source
Yahoo Japan Corp said on Friday night it suspected that up to 22 million of its user IDs may have been "leaked" and it detected an unauthorized attempt to access the administrative system of its web portal Yahoo Japan, the Kyodo news agency reported.The leaked information does not include passwords and data necessary for identity verification to reset passwords, the agency said.The ...
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China-India coercion easily trumps diffidence
India cannot match China miltarily – now and very likely in future. China has vast reserves ($3 trillion) that can easily be used to procure sophisticated armaments. The question arises – why did US, that has been trying to woo India into a partnership did not speak out in defence of India. The only statement that came out from US was to settle the differences amicably. India alone ...
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Japan to develop H-3 rocket
A government panel on space policy tentatively agreed on Friday to start developing a large, next-generation rocket next fiscal year, aiming to shift the design and development of the new device to private companies to reduce costs. The special committee under the Cabinet Office is considering conducting the rocket's maiden launch in fiscal 2020. The panel intends to make a final decision ...
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Hashimoto now blames public for misreading him snubs press
OSAKA - Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) coleader Toru Hashimoto, the Osaka mayor in hot water for apparently trying to justify Japan’s wartime sex slaves, said Friday that the public’s ';lack of reading comprehension'; has caused the current situation in which his remarks have been ';misunderstood.'; The embattled outspoken politician also said he ...
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In reversal man claims Jackson long abused him
Tonkatsu is comfort food, gourmand grub -- not a gourmet delicacy. So what are those hearty, unpretentious deep-fried breaded pork cutlets doing in an elegant little bar-style restaurant above one of Ginza’s temples to high-end consumption? Katsuzen has come a long way from its ...
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Resona in Malaysian bank tieup for Asian expansion
Resona Holdings Inc., the nation’s fifth-largest bank by market value, is poised to tie up with Malaysia’s Public Bank Bhd. as part of its efforts to expand in Asia. Resona will sign an agreement with Malaysia’s third-biggest lender on Monday to serve Japanese companies looking to enter the country and borrow in the local currency, President Kazuhiro Higashi said in an ...
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JAEA head quits over Monju ills
The Abe government should give up on the trouble-plagued Monju fast-breeder reactor project after the Nuclear Regulation Authority cited safety management ...
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Opportunity For Bruneians To Pursue Studies In Japan
Bandar Seri Begawan - Bruneians who have interest in pursuing studies in Japan have the opportunity to do so through the Japanese Government Scholarship, which applications are now open until June 14. The Government of Japan has been offering a scholarship programme for Bruneians since its independence in 1984, and to date, the many Bruneians awarded with the scholarship are now contributing to ...
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Aeon Co. President Motoya Okada
Aeon Co. plans to boost the ratio of women in managerial positions throughout its entire group to 50 percent by 2020 from the current 7 percent, company president Motoya Okada said on May ...
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Osaka mayor accuses U.S. military of using women for sex in postwar Japan
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto on May 17 hit back at U.S. criticism of his remarks on "comfort women" by accusing the United States of using Japanese women to provide sex for American soldiers following World War ...
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Central government to lead volcanic disaster readiness
The land of the rising sun is also a land of volcanoes, many of which are active and could pose a threat to the nation. In anticipation of potential "large-scale volcanic disasters," an expert panel of the Cabinet Office on May 16 recommended the central government take the lead in working out special readiness ...
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INSIGHT Abe eager for conservative agenda--after Upper House vote
Buoyed by strong public support for his economic policies, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe continues to put top priority on shoring up the nation's economy to assure his party's victory in the Upper House election in July and remain in power ...
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Japan envoy leaves North Korea gives no hints on talks
TOKYO (AP) — An adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ended a visit to North Korea but would not give details of his talks with leaders in Pyongyang.Isao Iijima's three-day visit came amid a slight easing of tension on the Korean Peninsula after weeks of threats from the North aimed at Washington, Seoul and Tokyo.Japan has not disclosed the purpose of Iijima's trip. ...
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Sanyo may cease to exist under Panasonic reorganization Nikkei
(Reuters) - Sanyo Electric Co may cease to exist under a reorganization by Panasonic Corp that includes global jobs cuts, Nikkei reported on Friday.Panasonic will cut 90 percent of Sanyo's global workforce of about 2,500 in around three years, the daily reported.About 1,000 workers at Sanyo's headquarters will be reduced to around 100 this fiscal year, leaving just a skeleton crew for ...
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Asias Week Japan Revives What of Japan Inc.
Tokyo's investment banking world is finally aflutter again. Perhaps the excitement has smokers reaching more often for their Mild Sevens: Japan Tobacco advised on Friday that cigarette sales volume rose 3.2% in April, year on year-this in a nation that is beginning to die off. The Abe government promises to roll out next month the third part of its growth push, a batch of reforms and ...
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Sony to name Chugai Pharmas CEO as chairman Nikkei
Chief Executive Osamu Nagayama as chairman, the Nikkei reported.Nagayama's appointment will be finalized on June 20 at a board meeting to be held immediately after a shareholders' meeting, the business daily said.Outgoing chairman Howard Stringer, who served as Sony's CEO between 2005 and 2012, will retire in June, the Japanese paper said. (Reporting by Aditi Shrivastava in ...
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S. Korea wants U.S. to stop using name Sea of Japan
South Korea has lodged a formal complaint with the U.S. Defense Department about the U.S. designation of the "East Sea" as the "Sea of Japan." The provocation was a news release from the 7th Fleet about the carrier U.S.S. Nimitz participating in a joint exercise earlier this week, the U.S. military newspaper Stars and Stripes reported Thursday. The release was rewritten to ...
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Japan PM aide in Beijing after Pyongyang trip
TOKYO (AFP) - An aide to Japan's premier said Friday he had held "sincere" talks with North Korean officials during his controversial visit to the country.Isao Iijima, a senior adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, was tightlipped about the subjects of his discussions when he arrived at the airport in Beijing."By visiting there, I was able to hold sincere talks for a ...
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Falling yen to make Japans goods more affordable
Attention, bargain-hunters around the world: Japanese goods - from cars to televisions - are going on sale.Credit Japan's drive to pump cash into its economy to stimulate growth. The extra money flooding its financial system is helping shrink the value of the yen. A U.S. dollar now buys about 100 yen. Last fall, it bought fewer than 80.When the yen's value falls, many Japanese goods ...
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Japan PM says shrine visits natural
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe defended in an interview Friday the right of Japan's leaders to visit a controversial shrine to war dead but hit back at critics who accuse him of revisionism.Amid the latest flare-up with China and South Korea over history, Abe quoted a US scholar as comparing the Yasukuni shrine to Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, which has a ...
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Tokyo's new international airport making waves
Haneda airport was renamed Haneda International Airport with the opening of the new International Terminal, which will see several million passengers pass through it each year as the airport regains its status as a global airport with connections to major cities across the world.
When Haneda first opened in 1931 it was the largest civilian airport in the whole country and during the Second World War became a major US Air Base after the invasion of Japan and the country’s surrender. Read more
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