Thailand bids to join TPP free trade pact
May 2, 2018
Bangkok (Jiji Press)-Thai Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak said Tuesday that his country hopes to soon join the new Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact, signed by Japan and 10 others of the 12 original TPP member countries in March. Somkid
Minors’ involvement in special fraud still rife
May 2, 2018
Tokyo- The number of minors who take part in bank transfer scams and other special fraud in Japan is showing no sign of declining, with many youngsters saying they became involved without sufficient thought to get money to have fun.
Ex-aide to Abe likely to admit meeting with Kake official
May 2, 2018
Tokyo- Tadao Yanase, a key government official in a favoritism scandal, is expected to admit that he did meet with an official of the school operator at the center of the scandal over a planned veterinary medicine faculty, ruling party
Hitachi wins 1st offshore wind power system deal abroad
May 1, 2018
Taipei- Japanese machinery giant Hitachi Ltd. has clinched its first overseas order, from Taiwan Power Co., for an offshore wind power generation system. It received the order, worth 25 billion New Taiwan dollars, jointly with Jan De Nul Group, a
6 foreign trainees worked at Fukushima N-Plant
May 1, 2018
Tokyo- Six technical trainees from abroad worked within the compound of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, TEPCO officials said Tuesday. This is against TEPCO’s decision, made in February last year after consultations with related
Cool biz campaign starts
May 1, 2018
Tokyo- This year’s Cool Biz campaign, designed to encourage office workers to dress lightly to reduce air conditioner use in summer, started at central government offices in the Kasumigaseki district of Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward on Tuesday. At the Environment Ministry,
Glitch hits new Tokyo regional bank on 1st day
May 1, 2018
Tokyo- A glitch disrupted part of services at Kiraboshi Bank on Tuesday, the very day when the Tokyo regional bank was established through the merger of three lenders. Some money transfers using automated teller machines of former Yachiyo Bank, one
GDP forecast to have dropped in Jan.-March
May 1, 2018
Tokyo- Think tanks expect Japan’s gross domestic product to have contracted for the first time in two years in January-March, mainly reflecting sluggish personal consumption due to higher vegetable prices. Eleven economic research institutes on average estimate the country’s real
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