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Biz sentiment up for 5th straight month in Oct.

November 6, 2017

TOKYO- Business sentiment in Japan improved for the fifth straight month in October, led by the manufacturing sector on brisk exports, a private-sector survey showed Monday. The business sentiment diffusion index rose 0.7 point from the previous month to 49.1,

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Abe offers condolences to Texas church shooting victims

November 6, 2017

TOKYO- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offered his condolences on Monday to the victims of a mass shooting in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on the previous day. “I would like to express my sympathy for the victims and

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Trump shows hope to launch US-Japan FTA talks

November 6, 2017

TOKYO- Visiting US President Donald Trump on Monday voiced his strong hope for his country and Japan to commence talks on concluding a bilateral free trade agreement, while complaining about the huge US trade deficit with Japan. “I know that

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Abe welcome Trump

November 5, 2017

TOKYO- US President Donald J. Trump (2-R) with his wife Melania Trump (2-L) and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) with his wife Akie Abe (L) meet for a dinner at a restaurant in Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, 05 November 2017.

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U.S. Pres. Trump arrives in Japan

November 5, 2017

Tokyo- U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday morning arrived in Japan, the first stop on his five-nation Asia tour. The president, accompanied by First Lady Melania Trump, flew to the U.S. military’s Yokota base in western Tokyo aboard Air Force

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Blanket radiation checks on rice from Fukushima Prefecture under debate

November 5, 2017

Fukushima- Blanket radiation checks on rice produced in nuclear disaster-hit Fukushima Prefecture have come under debate because no rice exceeding the safety limit has been found in recent years. Some people, including producers, in the northeastern Japan prefecture call for

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Onodera to inspect Aegis Ashore test facility in Hawaii

November 5, 2017

New York- Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera is likely to visit Hawaii next January to inspect a test facility for the Aegis Ashore ground-based missile defense system, government sources said Sunday. Japan and the United States are also considering holding

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Softbank’s Sprint ends merger talks with T-Mobile

November 5, 2017

Tokyo- U.S. mobile carrier Sprint Corp., a subsidiary of Japan’s Softbank Group Corp. , said Saturday that it has terminated merger talks with industry peer T-Mobile US Inc. The two sides failed to close the gap over who should control

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