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- Japan, U.S. Name 3 Inaugural Investment Projects; Reached Agreement After Considerable Difficulty (仕事)
- JAPAN NEWS
Japan and the United States have chosen three inaugural projects to kick off a $550 billion (about ¥84 trillion) investment package in the United States.
The two nations agreed on the ...
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- Lawson To Enter India In 2027; Plans 100 Stores By 2030 (仕事)
- JAPAN TODAY
Major Japanese convenience store operator Lawson Inc will enter the Indian market, planning to open its first store in Mumbai in 2027 and launch a total of 100 stores in the country b...
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- Sakamoto 'Frustrated' At Missing Olympic Skating Gold (ニュース)
- JAPAN TODAY
Japanese superstar Kaori Sakamoto said her feeling was one of "frustration" after missing out on Olympic gold in her final figure skating competition on Thursday.
"I was aiming for ...
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- Japan Is Getting Its First Cram School For High Schoolers Where All Of The Teachers Are Actual Vtubers (ニュース)
- AUTOMATON MEDIA
Japanese company Luminaris announces the opening of their virtual cram school where all instructors are real-life VTubers.
Japanese company Luminaris, which operates a cram school...
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- Japan Coast Guard Trains Southeast Asian Counterparts (ニュース)
- NHK
Japan Coast Guard personnel have put on a training session for officials from a group of Southeast Asian countries. The aim was to enhance their capabilities in tracking and monitoring suspic...
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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...
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- 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...
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- 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 ...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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 ...
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- 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...
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- 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 ...
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