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Many passengers evacuated with luggage from smoky plane: report

December 21, 2017

Tokyo- Many passengers tried to carry their luggage with them when they evacuated from a Boeing 737-800 jet of Japan Airlines after smoke was detected in its cabin in February last year, the Japan Transport Safety Board said in its

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Subaru probing possible mileage data manipulation

December 21, 2017

Tokyo- Japan’s Subaru Corp. said Wednesday it will launch an investigation into whether the automaker manipulated fuel economy data of vehicles during pre-shipment checks. Some officials pointed to the possibility of such practice during a hearing by a law firm

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University of Tokyo researchers develop repairable polymer

December 21, 2017

Tokyo- A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo recently said they have developed a hard transparent polymer that can be repaired at room temperatures if fragments are put together. The achievement was published last week on the online

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Gov’t ups views on production, capex; economic overview unchanged

December 21, 2017

Tokyo- The Japanese government kept its basic economic assessment unchanged in its monthly report released on Thursday, while raising its views on industrial output and corporate capital expenditures and, by contrast, showing a bleaker picture of housing construction. “The Japanese

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Toyota estimates another record in 2018 global sales

December 21, 2017

Nagoya- Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday its global vehicle sales in 2018 are estimated at 10,495,000 units, hitting a record high for the second straight year and topping 10 million for the fifth consecutive year. The Japanese automaker said strong

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LDP remains undecided on Constitution’s Article 9

December 21, 2017

Tokyo- The ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Wednesday failed to reach a specific stance over proposed revisions to the Japanese constitution’s war-renouncing Article 9. The LDP’s Headquarters for the Promotion of Revision to the Constitution agreed to consider two options

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Crack in Shinkansen bullet train nearly caused derailment

December 20, 2017

Osaka- A crack found in a bogie frame of a Shinkansen bullet train last week was so deep that the frame nearly fractured to cause a derailment, the train operator said Tuesday. The crack in the square-tube frame had a

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Abe renews resolve to effectuate new Constitution by 2020

December 20, 2017

Tokyo- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reiterated his resolve on Tuesday to put a new constitution into force by 2020. “We should deepen constitutional discussions and hold active debates on what the country should be like,” Abe said at a

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