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Stocks hit longest record winning streak

October 23, 2017

TOKYO- The benchmark Nikkei average rose for the 15th straight session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday, marking its longest winning streak since the index was created after the market reopened in 1949 after the end of World War

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Biz circle hails ruling campʼs victory

October 23, 2017

TOKYO- The Japanese business circle has praised the landslide victory of the ruling camp led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party in Sunday’s general election for the House of Representatives, the all-important lower chamber of the Diet, the

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Murai wins 4th term as Miyagi governor

October 23, 2017

SENDAI, MIYAGI PREF.- Yoshihiro Murai, 57, has won his fourth four-year term as governor of Miyagi Prefecture. In Sunday’s gubernatorial election in the northeastern prefecture, Murai beat his sole contender, Satoshi Tatara, a 59-year-old independent backed by the Japanese Communist

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Abeʼs ruling bloc scores landslide victory in Lower House

October 23, 2017

TOKYO- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, Komeito, scored a landslide victory in the crucial general election on Sunday, helping him to consolidate his grip on power nearly five years after returning to power.

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Sumitomo Metal working to start mining new gold deposit in 2019

October 22, 2017

Isa Kagoshima- Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. is working to start mining a new gold ore deposit in its Hishikari Mine, the only existing commercial gold mine in Japan, in 2019 at the earliest. The company has recently showed the mine

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Japan diplomat talks with N. Korean official in Moscow

October 22, 2017

Moscow- Senior Japanese diplomat Kenji Kanasugi said Saturday that he has had some conversations with Choe Son Hui, head of the North Korean Foreign Ministry’s North American department, in Moscow. Kanasugi, director-general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s Asian and Oceanian

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APEC ministers agree to promote infrastructure projects

October 22, 2017

Hoi An Vietnam- Finance ministers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum member economies ended their three-day meeting on Saturday by agreeing to promote infrastructure projects to shore up the region’s growth. At the meeting in Hoi An, central Vietnam, the

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Waterproof drones to be deployed for disasters at 10 cities

October 22, 2017

Tokyo- Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency will deploy at 10 ordinance-designated cities in fiscal 2018 waterproof drones that can survey disaster-hit areas even in bad weather in which helicopters cannot fly, officials have said. The government aims to strengthen

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