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Stocks of survival food taxing local governments

May 23, 2017

Tokyo- Local governments are struggling to deal with stores of emergency foods near the use-by dates, after boosting stockpiles in the wake of recent natural disasters across Japan. The Tokyo metropolitan government this year launched major efforts to avoid wasting survival

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Agricultural firms doubled in 10 years

May 23, 2017

Tokyo- The number of agricultural corporations in Japan more than doubled over the last 10 years, while the number of family farmers fell due chiefly to the aging population, an annual government report showed Tuesday. An increasing number of young farmers

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Sony chief confident of hitting 500b yen profit 

May 23, 2017

Tokyo- Sony Corp. President and Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai expressed confidence on Tuesday that his company will achieve its target of logging 500 billion yen in group operating profit in fiscal 2017, which ends in March 2018. “We’ve now gained

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4 Chinese gov’t ships enter Japanese waters near Senkakus

May 23, 2017

Naha, Okinawa Pref.- Four Chinese coast guard ships entered Japanese territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands in the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa on Tuesday. It was the first such intrusion into Japanese waters by Chinese government ships since Thursday, and

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Real wages up for 1st time in 6 years in FY 2016

Real wages up for 1st time in 6 years in FY 2016

May 23, 2017

Tokyo- Workers in Japan saw an increase in their price-adjusted real wages for the first time in six years in fiscal 2016, which ended in March, a government report said Tuesday. According to the revised report by the Health, Labor and

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Abe angry over terrorism after fatal blast in Britain

May 23, 2017

Tokyo- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed Tuesday his strong anger over terrorism in a sympathy message sent to his British counterpart, Theresa May, following an explosion at a concert venue in Manchester. In the message, Abe said that he hopes

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Japan to tighten inspections of N. Korea cargo ships

May 23, 2017

Tokyo- The Japanese government is considering stricter inspections of North Korean-related ships in response to recent missile launches by the reclusive state, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday. The government aims to allow Japan Coast Guard inspectors to carry out checks

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Subaru to add electric versions of existing models

May 22, 2017

Tokyo- Subaru Corp. plans to add electric versions of its existing vehicle models, rather than develop all-new electric models, Yasuyuki Yoshinaga, president and chief executive officer of the Japanese automaker, said in a recent interview. “It would be better to add

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