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- FCEV Sales In Japan Fall 83% As Refuelling Stations Close (仕事)
- AUTOMOTIVE WORLD
Japan's hydrogen car market is caught in a familiar spiral: fewer stations mean fewer buyers, which in turn makes fewer stations viable. By Stewart Burnett
Annual sales of fuel-c...
Driving [21:51] More
- Japan To Revise Economic Security Law To Support Projects Abroad (仕事)
- JAPAN TIMES
The Japanese government plans to revise the economic security promotion law to support companies with economic security-linked projects overseas.
This will be the first revision of th...
Other [21:10] More
- Three Japanese National Universities To Accept More Foreign Students (勉強)
- NHK
Japan's education ministry has decided to allow three national universities to take in more students from abroad, amid intensifying international competition to attract foreign students.
The ...
Other [19:54] More
- Chinese Visitors To Japan Slump As Spat Rumbles On (ニュース)
- UCA NEWS
Mainland Chinese visitors to Japan tumbled 60.7 percent in January year-on-year, figures showed Feb 18, in the continued fallout from the countries' diplomatic spat.
"Last year, the luna...
Tourism [19:26] More
- Japan to Host Ministerial Meeting on AI Use in March (ニュース)
- NIPPON
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Thursday that the country will host a ministerial meeting on the utilization of artificial intelligence in March.
She made the announcement in a ...
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- Japan's US Exports Fall For Second Straight Month (仕事)
- NHK
Japan's exports to the United States fell for the second straight month in January, indicating the lingering impact of the Trump administration's tariff measures.
Finance Ministry figures rel...
Other [18/2 20:15] More
- Japan Lower House Names Takaichi as Prime Minister (ニュース)
- NIPPON
Japan's House of Representatives, the all-important lower chamber of the Diet, the country's parliament, on Wednesday named Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi as prime minis...
Other [18/2 19:46] More
- Japan Set To Prohibit Use Of Power Banks On Flights (ニュース)
- JAPAN TIMES
Japan is considering a ban on the use of power banks on flights following incidents in which batteries have emitted smoke or caught fire in aircraft.
An NHK report Wednesday said the ...
Other [18/2 19:15] More
- Japan Tourist Arrivals In January Mark First Year-On-Year Fall In Four Years (ニュース)
- CNA
Visitors to Japan fell 4.9 per cent in January from the previous year to mark the first decline in four years, government data showed on Wednesday (Feb 18), as Chinese tourists stayed away am...
Other [18/2 18:45] More
- Japan Boosts Pay, Job Security For Lowly Paid Embassy Chefs (仕事)
- ASAHI
Japan is turning up the heat on its “gastrodiplomacy” by making embassy chefs’ posts more attractive and better paid.
After years of chronic shortages in the kitchens of its embassies and ...
Gourmet [17/2 20:27] More
- Nojima Eyes Mergers And Acquisitions Deals Worth Up To ¥300 Billion (仕事)
- JAPAN TIMES
Japanese home electronics retailer Nojima is eager to boost its merger and acquisition activities, ready to spend up to ¥300 billion per deal, sources have said.
"There is a possibili...
Other [17/2 19:49] More
- Takaichi Won't Send Cabinet Ministers To Takeshima Day Ceremony (ニュース)
- JAPAN TIMES
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will not send any Cabinet minister to an annual ceremony for the Takeshima islets, now under effective control of South Korea, in Shimane Prefecture, sou...
Other [17/2 19:20] More
- Infectious Gastroenteritis On The Rise In Japan For Fifth Straight Week (ニュース)
- NHK
Cases of infectious gastroenteritis caused by the norovirus and other viruses have increased in Japan for the fifth consecutive week.
The disease, also called stomach flu, causes fever, vomit...
Other [17/2 18:45] More
- Japan Ties Record Winter Games Medals with Figure Skating Pairs Gold (ニュース)
- NIPPON
Japan's Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara secured gold in figure skating pairs at the Milan-Cortina Olympics on Monday, the first Olympic medal of any color in the event for Japan.
With this, ...
Event [17/2 18:06] More
- Japan to Update Free, Open Indo-Pacific Vision (ニュース)
- NIPPON
The Japanese government is working to update its vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said Monday.
The vision "needs to be evolved in the most appr...
Other [16/2 17:47] More