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Vehicle inspection documents falsified at 5 Nissan plants

October 6, 2017

TOKYO- The government said Friday it has confirmed that documents on final inspections of finished vehicles were falsified at five of Nissan Motor Co.’s six plants in Japan. The documents had seals showing that the inspections were conducted by certified

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Up to 2.1m would die if North Korea attacks Tokyo, Seoul

October 6, 2017

WASHINGTON- Up to 2.1 million people in Tokyo and Seoul would die if North Korea attacked the two Asian cities with nuclear bombs in response to potential military action by the United States, a US institute has said in an

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Coincident index back to level before ’14 tax hike

October 6, 2017

TOKYO- Japan’s composite index of coincident economic indicators for August rose to a level unseen since March 2014, a month before the country’s latest consumption tax hike, the Cabinet Office said Friday. The coincident CI, which reflects current economic conditions,

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Dentsu ruled guilty over illegal overtime

October 6, 2017

TOKYO- A Tokyo court on Friday ruled Dentsu Inc. guilty over a high-profile illegal overtime case in which a young female employee committed overwork-induced suicide in 2015. Tokyo Summary Court imposed a fine of 500,000 yen as demanded by public

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Koike, Edano seek labor union support for their new parties

October 6, 2017

TOKYO- The heads of two newly-formed political parties in Japan, Yuriko Koike and Yukio Edano, on Friday asked for support for their parties from the country’s largest umbrella body for labor unions ahead of the Oct. 22 general election. Koike,

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Nagasaki woman who taught Ishiguro ecstatic

October 6, 2017

NAGASAKI- A woman who taught British author Kazuo Ishiguro at a kindergarten in Nagasaki, his birthplace, expressed joy on Friday over her former student winning the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. “I’m as delighted as I would be if it

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Koike declines request to run in general election

October 5, 2017

TOKYO- Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, leader of the Party of Hope, on Thursday declined a request by her counterpart in the Democratic Party, Seiji Maehara, that she run in the Oct. 22 House of Representatives election. During their talks in Tokyo, Koike said she

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Long way ahead for local consent to restart of TEPCO reactors

October 5, 2017

NIIGATA- Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. is expected to continue facing tough work to restart two nuclear power reactors in central Japan, with local approval still a long way ahead, although regulators have effectively confirmed their safety. The Nuclear

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