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Koikeʼs new party to announce DP-linked candidates next week

September 30, 2017

TOKYO- Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike’s Kibo no To (Party of Hope) will announce as early as mid-next week the names of Democratic Party members who will run in the upcoming House of Representatives election as official candidates of the new

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TEPCO confirms risky n-plant water level moves

September 29, 2017

TOKYO- Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Friday it has confirmed risky moves of the groundwater level in one of the wells around the four damaged reactors at its Fukushima No. 1 power plant. TEPCO made the announcement after

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Job openings ratio stays high in August: labor ministry

September 29, 2017

TOKYO- Japan’s seasonally adjusted ratio of effective job openings to seekers stayed high at 1.52 in August, unchanged from the previous month, labor ministry data showed Friday. Separately, the internal affairs ministry said that the country’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate

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Enrollment limits imposed on Tokyo universities for FY 2018

September 29, 2017

TOKYO- Japan’s education ministry published Friday special rules aimed at limiting student enrollment at private universities in central Tokyo, with a view to correcting the excessive concentration of young people in the Japanese capital. According to the rules, announced in

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Core CPI logs steepest rise in 34 months in Aug.

September 29, 2017

TOKYO- Japan’s core consumer price index in August marked the steepest growth in two years and 10 months, excluding effects from the April 2014 consumption tax increase, government data showed Friday. The growth reflected rises in electricity fees and gasoline

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Japan-China ties remain tense in 45th anniversary year

September 29, 2017

TOKYO- Japan-China relations, strained in recent years over a group of islands, has not recovered markedly, with the two nations celebrating the 45th anniversary on Friday of the normalization of their diplomatic ties in 1972. Incursions by Chinese government ships

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DP Approves Maehara’s Proposal to Join Koike’s Party

September 28, 2017

TOKYO- Japan’s main opposition Democratic Party approved on Thursday a proposal by its leader, Seiji Maehara, to unite with a new political party led by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike to prepare for a general election next month. The merger is

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Police to raise speed limit on trial basis at expressway from Nov.

September 28, 2017

TOKYO- Japan’s National Police Agency said Thursday that it will raise the speed limit in a section of the Shin Tomei Expressway in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, from November on a trial basis. The speed limit will be raised from

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