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Toshiba to raise over ¥800b on chip biz sale

February 21, 2017

TOKYO- Toshiba Corp. plans to raise more than 800 billion yen by selling a majority of its flash memory chip operations, informed sources said Monday. The struggling Japanese industrial conglomerate is expected to restart the process to invite bids as early

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Japan, China, South Korea  summit unlikely before May

February 21, 2017

TOKYO- A trilateral summit among Japan, China and South Korea is unlikely to take place before May, due to Seoul’s political turmoil and soured relations among the three Asian countries. “We are making arrangements to hold (such a summit) at an

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Bill to set annual “Minpaku” stay limit at 180 days

February 20, 2017

TOKYO- The Japanese government has drawn up a bill to set a stay limit of 180 days annually for “minpaku” private lodging services, according to informed sources. The government plans to submit the bill to the current ordinary session of the

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FOCUS: Failed survey complicates N-fuel removal at Fukushima plant

February 20, 2017

TOKYO- A failed robot survey of melted nuclear fuel that has dropped through the bottom of a damaged reactor pressure chamber at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant complicates the formulation of a policy in the summer for taking out the

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SDF conducts first overseas drill for protecting Japanese

February 20, 2017

RAYONG- Self-Defense Forces personnel conducted a drill in Thailand on Sunday for the protection of Japanese nationals aboard, a task made possible under Japan’s national security laws that came into force last year. The first such drill outside Japan, carried out

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Ruling, opposition parties split over imperial abdication

February 20, 2017

TOKYO- Japan’s ruling and opposition camps remained split over how to enable Imperial abdication, at hearings by the leaders of both chambers of the Diet, the country’s parliament, on Monday. While the ruling Liberal Democratic Party supported a special one-time law

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January trade deficit widens, surplus with US dives

February 20, 2017

TOKYO- Japan’s trade deficit in January widened to 1,086.9 billion yen from 647.7 billion yen a year earlier, while its surplus with the United States slumped, government data showed on Monday. The wider customs-cleared deficit was mainly attributed to a rise

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Victims of Japan’s 1942 bombing remembered 

February 19, 2017

DARWIN- More than 5,000 people attended a memorial ceremony in Darwin, northern Australia, on Sunday to remember the victims of Japan’s World War II airstrike against the city 75 years ago. On Feb. 19, 1942, the former Imperial Japanese military launched

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