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Core consumer prices jump in February

March 23, 2018

Tokyo- Japan’s core consumer prices rose at their fastest pace in over three years in February as higher crude oil prices lifted the cost of gasoline and electricity, government data showed Friday. The core consumer price index, which excludes often

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Governor publicizes safety of Fukushima foods in Europe

March 23, 2018

London- Fukushima Governor Masao Uchibori kicked off Thursday a tour of Britain and France to publicize the safety of foods from his prefecture in northeastern Japan. In London on Thursday, Uchibori met with officials of British importing companies to sell

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Coincheck submits 2nd biz improvement plan

March 23, 2018

Tokyo- Major Japanese cryptocurrency exchange operator Coincheck Inc. submitted its second business improvement plan to the Financial Services Agency on Thursday, in the wake of a hack that stole the NEM digital currency worth 58 billion yen from the exchange

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TEPCO ordered to pay 600m yen to Fukushima evacuees

March 23, 2018

Iwaki, Fukushima Pref.- A Fukushima District Court branch ordered Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. on Thursday to pay a total of 610 million yen in damages to 216 residents of areas for which the government issued an evacuation order

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ANA announces merger plan for Peach, Vanilla LCC units

March 23, 2018

Tokyo- ANA Holdings Inc. said Thursday that it will merge its budget airline units Peach Aviation and Vanilla Air by the end of fiscal 2019, to create a low-cost carrier with the largest sales in Japan. The combined sales of

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Maglev bid-rigging may have begun after no-bid deals refused

March 22, 2018

Tokyo- Major Japanese general contractors may have started colluding for Central Japan Railway Co.’s Chuo Shinkansen magnetic levitation high-speed train project after the railway operator, better known as JR Tokai, rejected their proposal for contracts to be awarded without competitive

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662m yen stolen in cryptocurrency remittance fraud cases in Japan in 2017

March 22, 2018

Tokyo- Some 662.4 million yen was stolen last year in a total of 149 remittance fraud cases targeting cryptocurrency accounts held by individual customers in Japan, police said Thursday. The growing popularity of cryptocurrencies and their surging value made such

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Police serves new arrest warrant on Shiraishi

March 22, 2018

Tokyo- Police on Thursday served a new arrest warrant on Takahiro Shiraishi for allegedly murdering a 17-year-old woman, the last case to be established as a murder among those involving the nine victims the suspect has admitted to killing in

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