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00:12

Japan to Restrict Malicious Host Club Practices

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2024/12/19

An advisory panel to Japanese police has called for restrictions on practices by host club employees of forcing female clients into prostitution and other sex work to pay off outrageously priced tabs.

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00:08

BOJ Keeps Monetary Policy Unchanged

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2024/12/19

The Bank of Japan decided to keep its monetary policy unchanged at a two-day Policy Board meeting that ended Thursday.

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00:11

Subaru Mulls Expanding Capacity in Indiana

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2024/12/19

Subaru Corp. is considering expanding vehicle production capacity at its assembly plant in Indiana, President and CEO Atsushi Osaki said Wednesday.

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00:13

Santa Project to Deliver Donated Books to Children in...

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2024/12/19

Volunteers dressed as Santa Claus will deliver donated books as Christmas gifts to children including those on the Noto Peninsula in central Japan, which was devastated by a powerful earthquake on New Year's day this year.

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00:09

Tokimatsu Named Next President at Sapporo Holdings

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2024/12/19

Sapporo Holdings Ltd. said Wednesday that it will promote Hiroshi Tokimatsu, executive group managing officer, to the post of president.

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00:11

2 People Stabbed to Death near Tokyo

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2024/12/18

Two people, believed to be in their 50s, were stabbed to death in an apparent murder in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Wednesday afternoon, prefectural police said.

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00:15

Japan Tax Reform Package to Include 1.23-M.-Yen...

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2024/12/18

Japan's upcoming fiscal 2025 tax system reform package is seen including a proposed hike in the income tax threshold from the current 1.03 million yen per year to 1.23 million yen, sources said Wednesday.

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00:13

Nippon Life Names Veep Asahi as New Pres.

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2024/12/18

Nippon Life Insurance Co. said Wednesday that Executive Vice President Satoshi Asahi, 61, will become president April 1, 2025, announcing its first change of president in seven years.

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00:14

LDP Hagiuda's Office Got Instruction on...

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2024/12/18

Koichi Hagiuda, former policy leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said Wednesday that his office was instructed in 2004 by his party faction to keep unreported funds at the heart of a high-profile slush funds scandal.

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00:11

Mitsubishi Heavy Names Exec Ito as New Pres.

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2024/12/18

Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said Wednesday that it will promote Executive Vice President Eisaku Ito, 61, to president April 1, 2025.

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00:10

JR West to Start Automated Hokuriku Shinkansen...

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2024/12/18

West Japan Railway Co., or JR West, said Wednesday that it will introduce an automated operation system for its Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train line.

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00:10

Komeito Chief Seeks Dual-Surname Talks with LDP

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2024/12/18

Komeito head Tetsuo Saito called Wednesday for talks within the ruling coalition toward introducing a selective surname system for married couples in Japan.

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00:15

Tokyo Court Fines Event Firm for Bid-Rigging over...

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2024/12/18

Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ordered major Japanese event company Cerespo Co. to pay a fine of 280 million yen for violating the antimonopoly law by rigging bids linked to the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in 2021.

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00:19

Visitors to Japan in Jan.-Nov. Top Record Annual High

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2024/12/18

The cumulative number of foreign visitors to Japan in January-November is estimated to have totaled 33,379,900, already exceeding the previous annual record high of 31.88 million in 2019, the Japan National Tourism Organization said Wednesday.

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00:12

Hidankyo Members Make Nobel Visit to Hiroshima Cenotaph

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2024/12/18

Members of Nihon Hidankyo, a group of hibakusha atomic bomb survivors, made a visit Wednesday to a cenotaph for deceased victims in Hiroshima to mark its receipt of this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

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00:16

Guilty Sentence for Ex-Lawmaker Akimoto to Become Final

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2024/12/18

Japan's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by former House of Representatives lawmaker Tsukasa Akimoto, 53, against his guilty sentence in a high-profile corruption case linked to a casino-featuring integrated resort, or IR, project.

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00:16

Osaka High Court Denies Govt Liability for Nuclear...

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2024/12/18

Osaka High Court ruled Wednesday that the Japanese government is not liable to pay compensation for evacuations following the March 2011 accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s tsunami-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

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00:15

Japan Household Financial Assets Post 1st Fall in 8...

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2024/12/18

Financial assets held by households in Japan stood at 2,179 trillion yen as of the end of September, falling from a record high marked three months before in their first decline in eight quarters, the Bank of Japan said Wednesday.

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00:15

Japan Incurs Trade Deficit of 117.6 B. Yen in November

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2024/12/18

Japan logged a customs-cleared trade deficit of 117.6 billion yen in November, down sharply from the year-before deficit of 813.9 billion yen, the Finance Ministry said in a preliminary report Wednesday.

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00:12

U.N. General Assembly Condemns N. Korea's Human...

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2024/12/18

The U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday adopted by consensus a resolution condemning North Korea's human rights abuses and demanding the immediate return of Japanese and other abductees in the reclusive country.

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