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Japan sees Chinese sub spotted near Senkakus as n-powered attacker

January 15, 2018

Tokyo- Japan’s Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Monday a Chinese navy submarine that entered the contiguous zone surrounding Japanese territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands in the southern prefecture of Okinawa on Thursday appears to have been a nuclear-powered attack

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Tokyo to Illuminate Historical Buildings during 2020 Games

January 14, 2018

Tokyo- The Tokyo metropolitan government plans to decorate historical buildings and other structures with lights toward the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in the Japanese capital, officials have said. The metropolitan government aims to make night views in Tokyo more

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Japan, U.S., Other Countries Vow to Block N. Korea Smuggling

January 14, 2018

Washington- Japan, the United States and 15 other countries on Friday confirmed the policy of boosting efforts to block North Korea’s smuggling activities, based on U.N. Security Council sanctions against Pyongyang. The United States, which is leading the campaign to

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Toyota Unions to Request at Least 3,000 Yen in Pay-Scale Hike

January 14, 2018

Nagoya- The federation of labor unions within the Toyota Motor Corp. group adopted Saturday a unified request for a monthly pay-scale hike of 3,000 yen or more in this year’s “shunto” spring wage negotiations with management. The Federation of All

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Abe Confirm Cooperation with 2 More Baltic Leaders over N. Korea

January 14, 2018

Vilnius, Lithuania- Visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday confirmed cooperation with leaders of two more Baltic states in dealing with North Korea. North Korea has fired missiles that put the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius within range, posing a

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Closed Kimono Firm Likely Causes 200 M. Yen in Damages

January 14, 2018

Tokyo- The shutdown of kimono rental firm Harenohi, which ruined Coming-of-Age Day celebrations for many women last week, is likely to have caused more than 200 million yen in damages to customers. The governments of seven cities where Harenohi had

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Japan’s DP, Party of Hope Broadly Agree to Form Diet Group

January 14, 2018

Tokyo- Executives of the Democratic Party and the Party of Hope reached a broad agreement on Sunday to form a parliamentary group between the two Japanese opposition parties. At a meeting in a Tokyo hotel, DP Secretary-General Teruhiko Mashiko and

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Japanese telco interested to be third player in Philippines, DICT chief says

January 14, 2018

The Japanese second largest telecommunications company has expressed interest to be the third telco player in the Philippines, an official said. In a radio interview on Saturday over a state-run radio station, Department of Information and Communications Technology Officer-in-charge Eliseo

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