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Japan Finance Ministry revises up economic views on 6 regions

October 25, 2017

TOKYO- Japan’s Finance Ministry upgraded its economic assessments on six of the country’s 11 regions due mainly to increased production in a quarterly report released on Tuesday. The ministry revised up its overall assessment for the 11 regions from “recovering

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Japan instructs JIS certification bodies to review Kobe Steel plants

October 25, 2017

TOKYO- Japanese industry minister Hiroshige Seko on Tuesday instructed private certification groups for the Japanese Industrial Standards to review JIS certifications granted to all 20 plants and offices of Kobe Steel Ltd. over its quality data falsification. The unusual step

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Little elation within LDP at election win suggests risk of Abe losing power

October 25, 2017

Tokyo- The ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s comfortable victory in Sunday’s general election in Japan did not trigger widespread joy and excitement within the party, suggesting that there remains the risk that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will lose a party leadership

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Einstein note written in Tokyo sold for $1.56m

October 25, 2017

Jerusalem, Oct. 24 (Jiji Press)–A 1922 handwritten note by Albert Einstein during his stay in Tokyo describing his thought on happy living sold for 1.56 million dollars at an auction in Jerusalem on Tuesday. The buyer was a European, according

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JICA reaches out to young Filipinos interested to learn agribusiness in Okinawa

October 25, 2017

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) invites young Filipinos engaged in agribusiness or agriculture tourism to apply to a training program to be held in Okinawa, Japan as part of Japan’s capacity building assistance to the Philippines. In a press

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Philippines ASEAN Defense Ministerial meeting

October 25, 2017

PAMPANGA PHILIPPINES- Japanese Defense minister Itsunori Onodera (L) shake hands with Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte (R) during a courtesy call at the 11th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Defense Ministers Meeting, at a former US military base in Angeles

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Alpha 7R III

October 25, 2017

NEW YORK- Sony Imaging Products and Solutions Inc. senior manager Yas Nagata introduces the company’s new camera Alpha 7R III during an event in New York on Wednesday, October 25, 2017. Attendees try out Sony’s new camera Alpha 7R III.

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Toshiba shareholders approve sale of chip unit to Bain-led group

October 24, 2017

CHIBA- Shareholders of struggling Japanese electronics and machinery maker Toshiba Corp. on Tuesday approved the company’s plan to sell its prized flash memory unit to a Japanese-US-South Korean team led by US private equity fund Bain Capital. The approval was

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