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Dentsu to be summarily indicted over illegal overtime

June 23, 2017

Tokyo- The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office plans to bring a summary indictment against major ad agency Dentsu Inc.  as early as next week on charges of forcing employees to work illegally long hours, it was learned Friday. Dentsu President

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Baby giant panda at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo confirmed a girl

June 23, 2017

Tokyo- Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo said Friday that the baby giant panda born at the zoo last week has been confirmed to be female. The baby, the first giant panda born at the zoo in about five years, is in good

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Toshiba to delay FY 2016 financial report further

June 23, 2017

Tokyo- Toshiba Corp. submitted to regulators on Friday a request to extend the deadline for presenting its fiscal 2016 financial report from the end of this month. The government’s Kanto Local Finance Bureau gave its approval for the application to

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Japan paints rosier picture of economy for 1st time in 6 months

June 22, 2017

TOKYO- The government on Thursday painted a brighter picture of the Japanese economy for the first time in six months, citing recovery in private consumption and business investment. The economy is on a “moderate recovery” path, the government said in

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Teaching manual refers to constitution revision procedures

June 22, 2017

TOKYO- Japan’s education ministry on Wednesday released a manual for the country’s new curriculum guidelines, asking junior high school teachers for the first time to have students understand procedures for constitutional revisions. A manual for new curriculum guidelines for elementary

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Power outage halts Tokaido, Sanyo Shinkansen for 5 hours

June 22, 2017

OSAKA- Bullet train operations were suspended on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen Lines for up to five hours until early Thursday morning due to a power failure caused by overhead wire disconnection in western Japan. According to Central Japan Railway

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Revised draft of nuke ban pact cites “unacceptable harm” to Hibakusha

June 22, 2017

NEW YORK- A revised draft preamble of a proposed U.N. treaty to legally ban nuclear arms newly noted “unacceptable harm” caused to hibakusha, or the surviving victims of the 1945 US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. The

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Koike sees full Toyosu soil cleanup “difficult”

June 22, 2017

TOKYO- The complete removal of soil pollution at the planned Toyosu wholesale food market in Tokyo’s Koto Ward is “basically a difficult thing,” Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said in an interview with Jiji Press on Wednesday. “It’s difficult to realize

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