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Tokyo Taxi Company Boosting Number of Foreign Drivers

May 6, 2018

Tokyo- Japanese taxi operator Hinomaru Kotsu Co. is boosting the number of its foreign drivers in response to an increase in visitors from abroad. A total of 23 foreign drivers from 11 countries, including Brazil, China and Egypt, are working

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Japan Utilizing Gait Recognition in Crime Investigations

May 6, 2018

Tokyo- Gait recognition technology, a method to identify people by characteristics shown unconsciously in the ways they walk, is being utilized in criminal investigations in Japan. The technology enables the identification of individuals even from images taken from a distance

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ADB Confirms Importance of Free Trade

May 6, 2018

Manila- Member economies of the Asian Development Bank confirmed the importance of free trade at its annual meeting in Manila on Saturday. The open trade system is imperative for the growth of Asia, ADB President Takehiko Nakao stressed. During discussions

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Kishida to Make LDP Race Decision after End of Diet Session

May 6, 2018

Hanoi- Liberal Democratic Party policy chief Fumio Kishida has indicated that he will decide his move in the Japanese ruling party’s upcoming leadership election after the end of the current ordinary session of the Diet, the country’s parliament. “The time

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Hitachi in earnest talks with UK on n-reactor project

May 5, 2018

Tokyo- Hitachi Ltd. has entered into full-fledged negotiations with Britain’s government on conditions for moving forward with a project to build nuclear power reactors on an island in the country, it has been learned. On Thursday, Hiroaki Nakanishi, chairman of

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NTT Com detects more than 90 fake IDs

May 5, 2018

Tokyo- Japanese discount smartphone service provider NTT Communications Corp., in cooperation with Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department, has detected more than 90 fake identifications presented by applicants for service contracts, Jiji Press has learned. The affiliate of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone

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Abe, Xi welcome Inter-Korean accord on complete denuclearization

May 5, 2018

Tokyo- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping held their first-ever telephone talks on Friday, giving a high mark to the accord at the inter-Korean summit last week on the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Then

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JCB starts issuing credit cards in Brazil

May 5, 2018

Sao Paulo- Japan’s JCB Co. has started issuing credit cards in Brazil in cooperation with state-run Brazilian bank Caixa Economica Federal. Brazil is the 23rd foreign country where JCB issues credit cards and the first in Latin America. JCB’s credit

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