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Tokyo Consumer Prices Up 2.4 Pct in Dec.

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2024/12/27

Core consumer prices in central Tokyo rose 2.4pctfrom a year before in December, lifted by higher electricity and gas bills and rising rice prices, the internal affairs ministry said Friday.

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00:10

Japan Industrial Output Logs 1st Drop in 3 Months in...

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2024/12/27

Japan's industrial production in November fell 2.3pctfrom the previous month, the first drop in three months, the industry ministry said Friday.

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00:08

Ishiba to Visit Malaysia, Indonesia in Jan.

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2024/12/26

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Thursday that he plans to visit Malaysia and Indonesia in early January.

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00:15

Japan Govt Drafts New Green Transformation Strategy

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2024/12/26

The Japanese government has drafted its new green transformation, or GX, strategy, which includes a plan to concentrate growing industries in areas rich in carbon-free power sources, such as solar and other renewables, as well as nuclear plants.

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00:13

Japan Overtaken by California in Nominal GDP

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2024/12/26

Japan's seasonally adjusted nominal gross domestic product fell below that of California for the first time in the second quarter of this year, NLI Research Institute, a private think tank in Tokyo, said Thursday.

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00:15

Uranium Detected in Extracted Fukushima N-Fuel Debris

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2024/12/26

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday that uranium has been detected in nuclear fuel debris extracted from one of the three meltdown-hit reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

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00:10

Japan Eyes Law Requiring Measures against Customer...

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2024/12/26

Japan's health ministry has drawn up a report that includes a plan to require companies to take measures against customer harassment of workers, it was learned Thursday.

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00:10

Aeon Bank Gets Biz Improvement Order

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2024/12/26

Japan's Financial Services Agency issued a business improvement order to Aeon Bank on Thursday accusing it of deficiencies in its fight against money laundering.

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00:12

Govt Aid Resumption to Cut Feb. Electricity Bills in...

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2024/12/26

Japan's 10 major electricity suppliers said Thursday that February bills for standard households will be cut by up to some 650 yen, thanks to the resumption of government subsidies.

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00:14

Japanese "Black Widow" Death-Row...

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2024/12/26

Chisako Kakehi, a 78-year-old death-row inmate known as a "black widow" who was convicted in serial murders using hydrocyanic acid in western Japan, died at the Osaka Detention House on Thursday, the Justice Ministry said.

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00:10

Japan Sees Record Low Competition Rate for School...

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2024/12/26

The competition rate of employment examinations for public school teachers in Japan hit a record low in fiscal 2024, the education ministry said Thursday.

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00:14

Top Prosecutors Office Finds Investigation of...

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2024/12/26

Prosecutors failed to properly investigate Iwao Hakamata, 88, who was acquitted this year in his retrial for the murder of four people in 1966, Japan's Supreme Public Prosecutors Office said in a report Thursday.

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Prices of 1,380 Food Items to Go Up in Japan in Jan.

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2024/12/26

Japan's 195 major food and beverage makers plan price hikes for a record 1,380 products in January amid rising logistics and labor costs, Teikoku Databank Ltd. said Thursday.

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00:14

Japan's Miyazawa Showed Skepticism about China...

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2024/12/26

Then Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa expressed his skepticism about China's democratization in a summit with then U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1993, Japanese diplomatic documents showed Thursday.

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00:10

Many Foreign Workers in Japan Face Agency Fee Issue

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2024/12/26

Of foreign workers with work-related issues in Japan, one in five cited expensive fees they paid to employment agencies, a labor ministry survey showed Thursday.

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00:10

Cyberattack Hits JAL, Affecting Some Flights

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2024/12/26

Japan Airlines said Thursday that a cyberattack has hit its network equipment, causing a system failure and affecting some domestic and international passenger flights.

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00:12

Japan Panel Seeks Law to Gain Cooperation from AI...

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2024/12/26

A Japanese panel of experts Thursday called for creating a law allowing the government to gain cooperation from artificial intelligence developers in the event of a serious problem related to AI technologies.

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00:11

Japan Wage Growth Projected to Outpace Inflation in...

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2024/12/26

The Japanese government said Thursday it expects wage growth in Japan to outpace the country's consumer inflation in fiscal 2025, as in fiscal 2024.

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00:09

1 Year On: Noto Quake Sparks Efforts to Get Disaster...

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2024/12/26

A powerful earthquake that hit central Japan nearly a year ago has led to moves to help spread disaster-related information to foreign nationals.

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00:17

Hong Kong Fund Ups Stake in Kobayashi Pharma

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2024/12/26

Hong Kong-based activist investor Oasis Management Co. has increased its equity stake in Japan's Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., rocked by a high-profile health hazard scandal over its supplements containing "beni koji" red fermented rice, according to a share transaction report.

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