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Companies forecast 0.8% inflation over next year: BOJ

December 18, 2017

Tokyo- Japanese companies predict that prices in the country will rise 0.8 percent over the coming year, in a Bank of Japan quarterly survey for December released on Monday, up 0.1 percentage point from the previous poll. Inflation over the

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Abe opens Instagram account

December 18, 2017

Tokyo- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has launched his official account on Instagram, joining many people in the nation, including young women, who are already enjoying the increasingly popular online photo-sharing service. His first post on the account, opened on

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Japan logs trade surplus for 6th straight month in Nov.

December 18, 2017

Tokyo- Japan’s customs-cleared trade balance was in the black for the sixth straight month in November, but the surplus dropped 22.6 percent from a year before due to growth in imports reflecting higher natural resources prices, government data showed Monday.

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S. Korea may study Pres. Moon’s solo visit to Japan: Official

December 18, 2017

Seoul- South Korea would likely study the possibility of President Moon Jae-in’s solo visit to Japan, on a separate occasion, if the holding of a possible tripartite summit in Japan among the two countries plus China is delayed, a senior

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Noted Japanese playwrite Akira Hayasaka dies at 88

Noted Japanese playwrite Akira Hayasaka dies at 88

December 17, 2017

Tokyo- Noted Japanese playwrite and author Akira Hayasaka died due to the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm at a hospital in Tokyo on Saturday. He was 88. After graduating from Nihon University College of Art, Hayasaka, a native of

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Japan’s Kanai off to his first space mission

December 17, 2017

Baikonur, Kazakhstan- A Soyuz spacecraft sending three astronauts, including Japan’s Norishige Kanai, to the International Space Station was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome space center in Kazakhstan on Sunday afternoon. The Russian spacecraft lifted off at 1:21 p.m. local

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DP to seek parliamentary Group with CDPJ, Party of Hope

December 17, 2017

Tokyo- Senior members of local branches of the Japanese opposition Democratic Party on Saturday expressed support for the party leadership’s proposal to ask the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the Party of Hope to form a joint parliamentary group

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Japan, S. Korean Foreign Chiefs to Meet on Tuesday

December 17, 2017

Seoul- South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha will visit Japan for two days from Tuesday for talks with her Japanese counterpart, Taro Kono, the two countries’ foreign ministries said Sunday. At the meeting, slated for Tuesday afternoon, Kono and Kang

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