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FSA to inspect applying cryptocurrency exchanges

February 15, 2018

Tokyo- Japan’s Financial Services Agency will conduct intensive on-site inspections of 15 cryptocurrency exchanges that are operating in the country while waiting for their registration with regulatory authorities, Jiji Press learned Wednesday. The FSA is set to target those companies

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Japan seen limiting weekly casino visits to 3 times

February 15, 2018

Tokyo- Japan is considering allowing its nationals to visit casinos that would be built in the country, up to three times a week or nine to 11 times a month, Jiji Press learned Wednesday. The government and the Liberal Democratic

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Dec. core machinery orders down 11.9%

February 15, 2018

Tokyo- Japan’s seasonally adjusted core machinery orders in December fell 11.9 pct from the previous month, down for the first time in three months, the Cabinet Office said Thursday. The drop was the biggest since the 15.3 percent plunge in

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Nagasaki to make Kazuo Ishiguro honorary citizen

February 15, 2018

Nagasaki- Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue announced Wednesday a decision to make Nagasaki-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro, the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, an honorary citizen of the southwestern Japan city. A bill for the move will be

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Economy grows for 8th straight quarter

February 14, 2018

Tokyo- Japan’s gross domestic product rose for the eighth straight quarter in October-December last year, the longest growth streak since the 12-quarter expansion marked in the country’s bubble economy era in the late 1980s, thanks to steady domestic private demand,

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Coincheck submits biz improvement report

February 14, 2018

Tokyo- Major Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck Inc. submitted to the Financial Services Agency on Tuesday a business improvement report following the recent theft of 58 billion yen worth of digital money. The report included measures to strengthen the security of

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Girls’ physical performance hits new highs: gov’t survey

February 14, 2018

Tokyo- Girls in the fifth year of elementary school and the second year of junior high school in Japan posted record highs in overall physical performance in fiscal 2017, a government survey showed Tuesday. Girls’ physical performance points were highest

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Scandal-Hit industrial materials makers see only limited impact on earnings

February 14, 2018

Tokyo- Kobe Steel Ltd., Mitsubishi Materials Corp. and Toray Industries Inc. are seeing their recent product data scandals have only a limited impact on their earnings for the year ending next month. In their respective April-December earnings reports released by

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