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Producer prices up 2.5% in Feb.

March 13, 2018

Tokyo- Japan’s producer price index for February grew 2.5 percent from a year before, up for the 14th straight month, the Bank of Japan said Tuesday. The growth reflected higher crude oil and nonferrous metal prices. The producer price index

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Coincheck starts compensating hack-affected customers

March 13, 2018

Tokyo- Major Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck Inc. said Monday that it started compensating the same day some 260,000 customers who were affected by a massive hack of the exchange in late January. A total of some 46 billion yen will

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Japan, S. Korea agree to maintain pressure on N. Korea

March 13, 2018

Tokyo- Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono and Suh Hoon, head of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, agreed Monday that their countries will continue putting maximum pressure on North Korea until Pyongyang starts concrete actions toward denuclearization. In their talks in

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Questioning of ex-tax chief over Moritomo papers seen inevitable

March 13, 2018

Osaka- The Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office’s special squad believes that it is inevitable to question former National Tax Agency chief Nobuhisa Sagawa in order to investigate the possibility of the tampering of documents related to the sale of a

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Preserved bodies of babies discovered at Tokyo house

March 13, 2018

Tokyo- Dead bodies apparently of unborn babies preserved in formalin have been found under the floor of a private house in Tokyo, police sources said Monday. The Metropolitan Police Department does not view this as a criminal case. Obstetric and

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LDP rejects demand to summon Abe’s wife over Moritomo scandal

March 13, 2018

Tokyo- Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Tuesday rejected a renewed opposition demand to summon Akie Abe and a key former bureaucrat for sworn parliamentary testimony about a government favoritism scandal involving school operator Moritomo Gakuen, once linked to the

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Man gets 9-year sentence for high-profile kidnapping

March 12, 2018

Saitama- A Japanese court on Monday sentenced a 25-year-old man to nine years in prison for kidnapping a girl, now 17, who was found safe about two years after she went missing in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, in

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Gov’t Admits Moritomo Papers Altered amid Scandal Involving Abe’s Wife

March 12, 2018

Tokyo- Japan’s government admitted on Monday that the Ministry of Finance’s internal documents related to the sale of a state land lot to private school operator Moritomo Gakuen at a deep discount were altered in or after late February 2017,

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