Category: Japan
Japan’s bid to enter trade talks opens route for US LNG
Japan’s bid to join negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement may make it easier for the nation to import US liquefied natural gas, a prospect that [...]
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Japan ups disaster debris estimate to reach N America
Japan’s estimate for the amount of debris from the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster that will reach North America later this year has sharply increased, a report said [...]
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Japan Moves to Enter Talks on Pacific Trade
Japan will seek to join negotiations for a free-trade pact with the United States and other Pacific nations, prime minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday, giving heft to talks [...]
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Japan queries Boeing Dreamliner restart date
Japan has said it is too early to estimate when Boeing’s 787 Dreamliners can resume operations, despite an announcement from the US aircraft manufacturer’s saying [...]
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Japan to Join Talks on Trans-Pacific Free Trade Pact
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe says he wants Tokyo to join talks on an ambitious, US-led free trade deal in an effort to revitalise the country’s faltering economy. [...]
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Japan Adds 1178 Megawatts of Mostly Solar Energy in Nine Months
Japan added 1,178 megawatts of mostly solar clean-energy capacity in the nine months to the end of December as the country curbs its reliance on nuclear power. Japan added [...]
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US says Japan has more work to do to join trade pact talks
The United States on March 15 cautiously welcomed Japan’s request to join negotiations on a U.S.-led Pacific free trade pact, emphasizing that Tokyo must demonstrate it [...]
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US military members suing over Japan nuke disaster
US service members are suing the Tokyo Electric Power Co. for more than $2 billion on grounds the utility lied about the dangers of helping clean up the nuclear disaster that [...]
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Japan ups disaster debris estimate to reach N. America
Japan’s estimate for the amount of debris from the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster that will reach North America later this year has sharply increased, a report said [...]
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Critic of Japan’s Central Bank is now its leader
In the late 1990s, in the thick of the Asian financial crisis, a top Japanese finance ministry official turned to his protege and found him engrossed not in policy documents, [...]
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Abe wins confirmation for BOJ Picks, Auguring easing
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s initiative to end two decades of economic stagnation took its biggest step yet as Parliament confirmed his picks for a new Bank of [...]
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Japan to seek entry to US-led Pacific trade talks amid reform hopes: reports
Prime minister Shinzo Abe was poised to announce on Friday that Tokyo wants to join talks on a US-led free trade pact, media said, a move proponents say will help tap vibrant [...]
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Japan, Sri Lanka agree to boost maritime security cooperation
Japan and Sri Lanka agreed Thursday to strengthen bilateral cooperation in Indian Ocean maritime security and coast guard patrols, including greater exchanges between their [...]
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Bond risk declines in Australia, Japan, default swap prices show
The cost of insuring corporate bonds from non-payment fell in Australia and Japan, according to traders of credit-default swaps. The Markit iTraxx Australia index dropped 2 [...]
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Japan’s energy board meets after dropping anti-nuclear members
Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has removed most anti-nuclear researchers from a revamped post-Fukushima energy policy advisory board to the government that [...]
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