Category: Japan
Yahoo Japan suspects 22 million IDs stolen
Yahoo Japan Corp. has said it suspects up to 22 million user IDs may have been stolen during an unauthorised attempt to access the administrative system of its Yahoo! Japan [...]
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Japan PM vows to seek talks with N. Korea over kidnapping
Japan’s prime minister vowed Sunday to seek talks with Pyongyang in a bid to settle the nagging issue of North Korea’s kidnapping of Japanese, without risking its [...]
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Japan’s Kidnapping Problem
Japan has a child-kidnapping problem. It’s not strangers snatching the kids on the playground or at the bus-stop; the problem is that when a Japanese national divorces [...]
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Analysis: Little sign Abe can shake up Japan’s inbound FDI
Japan risks missing, yet again, an opportunity to use foreign investment to help fuel sustained economic growth that has eluded it for the last two decades. Prime minister [...]
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Yen Climbs as Japan Signals Negative Impact From Further Losses
The yen climbed versus all 16 major peers after Japan’s Economy minister Akira Amari said further losses in the currency would threaten to negatively affect people and [...]
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Nissan Expands in Japan’s Minicar Market With First Joint Model
Nissan Motor Co. (7201) will start selling the first minicar it jointly developed with Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (7211) in Japan next month amid increasing demand from the [...]
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US shale gas alters Japan’s energy plans
Japan has made progress in its attempts to curtail soaring fuel costs since the 2011 Fukushima disaster and Washington on Friday gave it the green light to import cheap [...]
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Japan PM pledges to slash red tape for growth
Japan’s premier said Friday he would slash red tape in a bid to boost corporate investment as he seeks to capitalise on the feel-good mood of a soaraway stock market [...]
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Japan PM aide in Beijing after Pyongyang trip
An aide to the Japanese premier returned home from a controversial trip to North Korea on Saturday, reportedly saying he had demanded Pyongyang’s act swiftly on its [...]
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Japan PM says shrine visits ‘natural’
Prime minister Shinzo Abe defended in an interview Friday the right of Japan’s leaders to visit a controversial shrine to war dead but hit back at critics who accuse [...]
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China deal ends distraction, but not questions, for Caterpillar
Caterpillar Inc’s (CAT.N) deal to cut the purchase price of a Chinese mining-equipment maker it bought last year ends an embarrassing episode that overshadowed the [...]
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Japan’s ‘secret’ trip to N Korea disrupts united stance against…
A small crack has appeared in the international show of unity against North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons, following the “secret” visit to [...]
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Chinese ships in disputed-islands waters: Japan
Three Chinese government ships entered the waters of disputed islands on Friday, Japan’s coastguard said, more than a year after then-Tokyo governor set off the row by [...]
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Japan’s Investment Banks Love Abenomics’s Stimulus
Investment banks are among the first and biggest beneficiaries of Japan’s new economic stimulus policies, known as Abenomics. Since prime minister Shinzo Abe came into [...]
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As yen falls, goods from Japan are more affordable
Japanese goods are getting more affordable. For consumers worldwide – and for Japan’s economy – it’s welcome news. Credit Japan’s drive to pump [...]
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