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Norinchukin Bank is considering boosting its capital by about 1.2 trillion yen, it was learned Sunday.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Major Japanese paper producer Hokuetsu Corp. and peer Daio Paper Corp. have opted to forge a strategic business tie-up.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Japanese police on Sunday served a fresh arrest warrant to Hikaru Sasaki, one of the six people held over the case of the bodies of a Tokyo man and his wife being found in April, on suspicion of murdering the couple.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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The U.S. Department of State plans to deploy an officer who will monitor problematic behavior of China and consider countermeasures at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo from July, an official of the department said Saturday.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Japan Railways Group companies are expanding cargo transportation services using Shinkansen bullet trains.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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The road to a nuclear-free world is becoming rockier a year after leaders from the Group of Seven major democracies adopted a landmark document on nuclear disarmament.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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A private-sector survey has found that 63.9pctof Japanese companies are seeing negative profit impacts from the recent weakness of the yen.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Former South Korean President Moon Jae-in, in a recently published memoir, criticized the late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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A peace march was held in Okinawa Prefecture, southernmost Japan, on Saturday, to mark the 52nd anniversary of its return to Japan from post-World War II U.S. occupation.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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The city of Los Angeles has designated May 17 as "Shohei Ohtani Day," in honor of the Major League Baseball superstar.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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North Korea test-fired tactical ballistic missiles with a new autonomous navigation system into the Sea of Japan on Friday, the reclusive country's state media said Saturday.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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James Auer, a former U.S. Department of Defense official for Japan affairs, died in Nashville, Tennessee, on Thursday at the age of 82, informed sources said.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel on Friday visited Yonaguni Island in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan's westernmost island near Taiwan, in an apparent bid to keep China's growing military pressure in check.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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The Diet, Japan's parliament, on Friday enacted a bill to promote the use of hydrogen energy for a carbon-free society.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Nozomi bullet trains on Japan's Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines will be operated with all-reserved seating from Aug. 9 to 18, their operators said Friday.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party submitted a bill to the House of Representatives on Friday to revise the political funds control law in the wake of its "slush fund" scandal.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Japan's political parties will aim to compile a plan on securing a sufficient number of Imperial Family members during the ongoing session of parliament, House of Representatives Speaker Fukushiro Nukaga said Friday.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Itochu Corp., KDDI Corp., Toyota Industries Corp., Mitsui Fudosan Co. and Mitsubishi Estate Co. said Friday that they will collaborate in developing an efficient logistics system using digital technology.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Shinji Ishimaru, the 41-year-old mayor of Akitakata in the western Japan prefecture of Hiroshima, said Friday that he will run as an independent candidate in the July 7 gubernatorial election in Tokyo.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Japan's new Ambassador to South Korea Koichi Mizushima on Friday vowed efforts for further development of ties between the Asian countries.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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The Philippine government said Friday it has agreed to procure five more large patrol ships from Japan.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Japan's parliament enacted a bill to allow divorced parents to choose shared custody of their children on Friday, a move that will change the country's child custody system for the first time in 77 years.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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The House of Councillors' political ethics panel voted Friday to urge 29 lawmakers involved in the ruling Liberal Democratic party's "slush fund" scandal to attend a hearing on the scandal.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Japan's crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant started the second release for fiscal 2024 of treated water, which contains small amounts of radioactive tritium, into the sea on Friday.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the Sea of Japan on Friday, the South Korean military said.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Japan's parliament Friday enacted a bill to make webcasts of television programs mandatory for public broadcaster NHK, or Japan Broadcasting Corp., just like conventional broadcasting.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Japan has lodged protests with China and Russia after they referred to treated water being released from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant as "nuclear contaminated," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Friday.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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The head of political group Tsubasa no To ()削除 and two other people were arrested Friday for allegedly obstructing speeches by opponents in a parliamentary by-election in Tokyo last month.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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A House of Representatives committee Friday approved legislation to replace the foreign technical intern program with a new training scheme to allow foreigners to work in Japan for the medium to long term.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Friday that it will start the first round of demonstration tests to utilize My Number health insurance cards when transporting patients by ambulance at three fire departments on Thursday.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Japan's parliament Friday passed legislation to introduce the "blue ticket" fine system under which bicycle riders pay fines for minor traffic violations to escape criminal punishment.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Japanese power generation company Jera Co. will invest about 5 trillion yen for decarbonization, partly to replace fuels for thermal power plants with ammonia and hydrogen.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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U.S. information technology giant Meta Platforms Inc.'s Oversight Board on Thursday started soliciting public opinions about a post criticizing Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on its Threads text messaging app.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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The Japanese government has decided to provide emergency relief supplies such as tents and blankets for people in northern Afghanistan hit by massive floods.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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The 7-Eleven convenience store chain this week marked the 50th anniversary of the opening of its first outlet in Japan, where convenience stores have become essential infrastructure for everyday life.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Nippon Life Insurance Co. said Thursday that it will invest about 3,838 million dollars in U.S. pension services giant Corebridge Financial Inc. to make it an equity-method affiliate.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Central Japan Railway Co., or JR Tokai, will briefly suspend drilling work at a tunnel for the planned Chuo Shinkansen magnetic levitation train line, after water levels in nearby wells decreased, President Shunsuke Niwa said Thursday.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Chinese People's Liberation Army officers attended a welcome event in Tokyo on Thursday during their first visit to Japan under a bilateral uniformed officer exchange program in five years.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Japan's Supreme Court will take measures to accommodate disabled plaintiffs in five damages lawsuits over forced sterilization under the now-defunct eugenic protection law, including setting up ramps for wheelchair users, it was learned Thursday.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Honda Motor Co. said Thursday it will invest about 10 trillion yen to promote the development and production of electric vehicles in the decade through fiscal 2030, double the amount the Japanese automaker earmarked under its previous plan in April 2022.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc. over fraudulent social media ads using his name and images without permission.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Thursday rebutted repeated remarks by a U.S. Republican heavyweight trying to justify the August 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of the Japanese cities.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Toshiba Corp. said Thursday it will cut up to 4,000 jobs as part of efforts to raise the ratio of operating profit in revenue from slightly over 1pctat present to 10pctin fiscal 2026, which ends in March 2027.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his new Singaporean counterpart, Lawrence Wong, held telephone talks on Thursday and agreed to strengthen ties between their nations.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Panels of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party approved on Thursday a plan to disclose the usage of so-called policy activity funds if the amount paid by political parties to their lawmakers exceeds 500,000 yen.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan departed the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, on Thursday after nine years of deployment in Japan.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. are considering collaborating to develop in-car software, it was learned Thursday.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Tokyo police on Thursday sent to public prosecutors papers on an 18-year-old male applicant for admission to Waseda University for allegedly leaking entrance examination questions online in February by using smart glasses capable of taking pictures.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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The Japanese Defense Ministry is alarmed after a video of its crucial destroyer Izumo, apparently taken by a drone that flew over it, was posted on Chinese social media.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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Public support for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's cabinet edged up to 18.7pctin May, a Jiji Press opinion poll showed Thursday.Kirjoittanut 時事通信社
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