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18 Percent of Japanese second-graders own mobile phones

May 15, 2019

Tokyo–A Japanese welfare ministry survey showed Wednesday that the proportion of elementary school second-graders in 2018 Who owns mobile phones including smartphones at 17.9 pct, up 11.6 percentage points from a similar conducted conducted in 2009 . The Longitudinal Survey

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Lee sees limits to government action on wartime labor rulings

May 15, 2019

Tokyo–South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon said Wednesday that there are “fundamental limitations” to his government’s ability to take measures demanded by Japan against the Supreme Court decision last year that ordered a Japanese company to pay compensation to South

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BOJ eyes no immediate additional easing: Kuroda

May 15, 2019

Tokyo–Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said Wednesday that the central bank is not considering taking additional monetary easing steps immediately, despite growing uncertainty over the global economy, due partly to escalating U.S.-China trade friction. While indicating that the BOJ

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Japan expected to set numerical target to battle dementia

May 15, 2019

Tokyo–The Japanese government is expected to include a numerical target in the planned guidelines for measures against dementia due out in summer, informed sources said Wednesday. The government will discuss a possible target of reducing the share of dementia sufferers

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S. Korea should present solutions to tensions: Suga

May 15, 2019

Tokyo–Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday that South Korea should present solutions to resolve rising tensions between the two nations. “Japan-South Korea relations are in an extremely difficult situation currently, but this is the result of repeated negative

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Trump informs Abe of plan to attend G-20 Summit in Osaka

May 15, 2019

Washington–U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted on Tuesday that he has informed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of his plan to attend the Group of 20 summit in the western Japan city of Osaka on June 28-29. Trump convened the plan

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Robot models from “Gundam” anime series to be launched into space

May 15, 2019

Tokyo–In a bid to boost spirits for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, a Japanese project is under way to launch into space models of humanoid robots from the popular “Mobile Suit Gundam” animation series. The project was jointly announced

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Five alleged NPAs killed in encounter vs military in Negros Occidental

May 15, 2019

Five alleged members of the New People’s Army (NPA) were killed while three soldiers were wounded in an encounter that lasted for about an hour in Negros Occidental on Wednesday morning. Lt Revekka Roperos, public affairs officer of the 303rd

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