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TV Asahi defends secret recording of top bureaucrat’s indecent remarks

April 25, 2018

Tokyo- TV Asahi Corp. President Gengo Sunami on Tuesday expressed understanding that one of the Japanese broadcaster’s female reporters made a voice recording of sexually explicit remarks allegedly by the country’s top finance bureaucrat during their one-on-one meeting at a

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Nomura Real Estate Holdings pres. to return 20% of pay

April 25, 2018

Tokyo- Nomura Real Estate Holdings Inc. President Eiji Kutsukake has said he will return 20 percent of his executive salary for three months from April to take responsibility for a subsidiary’s fatal operation of a discretionary work system. The subsidiary,

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Moon tells Abe of plan to cover abduction issue at summit with Kim

April 25, 2018

Tokyo- South Korean President Moon Jae-in told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday that he plans to take up the issue of Pyongyang’s abductions of Japanese nationals decades ago at his upcoming meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong

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Japan to strengthen river dikes in face of global warming

April 25, 2018

Tokyo- Japan’s land ministry has started reviewing its river dike construction projects and procedures for them, planning to strengthen dikes to mitigate damage from floods caused by global warming. The ministry plans to assume an increase in rainfall for such

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FTC to reject merger of 2 southwestern banks

April 25, 2018

Tokyo- Japan’s Fair Trade Commission plans to reject a merger between Fukuoka Financial Group Inc. and Eighteenth Bank under current terms, informed sources said Wednesday. The FTC concluded that the merger will hamper competition and cause disadvantages, including higher lending

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GSDF report details tense Iraq security situation

April 24, 2018

Tokyo (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Defense Ministry released Monday a report that detailed a tense encounter between Ground Self-Defense Force troops and a crowd of supporters of an anti-US Iraqi Shiite cleric in Rumaitha, Iraq, in 2005. The report on the so-called

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Japan to offer $14m dollars in aid over Syria crisis

April 24, 2018

Tokyo- The Japanese government will offer a total of $14 million in emergency grant aid to Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon in response to the deteriorating situation in Syria, officials said Tuesday. The aid will include food, daily commodities and medicines,

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Mizuho Securities to enhance services for elderly clients

April 24, 2018

Tokyo- Japan’s Mizuho Securities Co. plans to boost the number of consultants for elderly customers to 70-80 within fiscal 2018 from 13 at the end of last month, its president, Koichi Iida, has said in a recent interview. In cooperation

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