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- Japan Reports ¥5.22 Tril Trade Deficit In FY2024 (仕事)
- JAPAN TODAY
Japan recorded a trade deficit in its March-April fiscal year but racked up a surplus with the U.S., the Finance Ministry reported Thursday.
Japan’s global trade deficit totaled 5.2 t...
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- Trump Tariffs Squeeze Some Japanese Food Exporters; Rice, Seafood Producers Fear Negative Impact (仕事)
- JAPAN NEWS
With U.S.-Japan trade negotiations beginning in earnest on Thursday, Japanese companies face increasing uncertainty regarding their export prospects, especially with some sectors alrea...
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- Hackers Take Over Accounts at Japan Securities Firms, Make Illicit Stock Trades in Apparent Bid to Raise Prices (ニュース)
- JAPAN NEWS
A series of crimes has occurred in which hackers took over individual investors’ accounts with securities companies and made illegal stock trades.
The criminals are believed to be usin...
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- Japan Manufacturers Turn Cautious About Business Outlook Due To Trump Tariffs: Reuters Poll (仕事)
- REUTERS
Japanese manufacturers expressed improved business sentiment in April versus March though are bearish about their outlook over the next three months as they brace for the impact of sweepi...
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- 24,000 Drivers Scrupulously Submit Payment Offers After Expressway Collection System Breaks (ニュース)
- JAPAN TODAY
Japan’s expressways require drivers to pay a toll to use them, but at least they have a pretty slick payment system. Rather than having to stop at toll both and fiddle with change to ...
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- Honda Says Shifting Hybrid Civic Production From Japan To US (仕事)
- BSS NEWS
Automaker Honda said Wednesday it will shift production of its hybrid Civic model from Japan to the United States in June or July, but stopped short of saying the reason was US tariffs.
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- Japan Crosses 10 Million Visitors Through March At Fastest Ever Pace (仕事)
- BUSINESS TIMES
For the whole of 2025, tourist arrivals are on pace to eclipse last year’s all-time level of 36.87 million
Japan crossed the 10 million visitor mark at the fastest ever pace this y...
Tourism [April 16, 2025] More
- Self-Driving Taxis to Begin Test Runs in Tokyo; Waymo, Others to Operate 25 Vehicles in Various Wards (仕事)
- JAPAN NEWS
Three companies including Waymo LLC, a self-driving vehicle company affiliated with Google LLC’s parent Alphabet Inc., announced Thursday that they will begin test runs of self-driving...
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- Osaka Expo Draws 119,000 Visitors On Opening Day (ニュース)
- JAPAN TODAY
Around 119,000 people visited the World Exposition in Osaka on its opening day Sunday, the organizer said, with long lines forming in the rain at pavilions admitting only a limited nu...
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- Yamagata’s Cherry Blossoms Are Now In Full Bloom; Four Days Earlier Than Usual, Four Days Later Than Previous Year (ニュース)
- JAPAN NEWS
Cherry blossoms have come into full bloom in Yamagata, the Yamagata Meteorological Office announced Monday. It was four days earlier than usual and four days later than last year.
At a...
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- Japan's FY 2025 Defense-Related Outlay To Total 1.8% Of FY 2022 GDP (仕事)
- KYODO NEWS
Japan's defense-related spending for fiscal 2025 is expected to total about 9.9 trillion yen ($70 billion), equivalent to 1.8 percent of gross domestic product three years earlier, Def...
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- Innovation Over Tradition Sending Dassai Sake To The Moon (仕事)
- JAPAN TODAY
If humans eventually colonize the moon, the early settlers might toast their success with a bottle of sake, realizing the dream of brewer Asahi Shuzo Co.
Yamaguchi-based Asahi Shuzo, ...
Gourmet [April 13, 2025] More
- Japan Won’t Use US Treasury Holdings In Tariff Talks (仕事)
- TECH IN ASIA
Japan will not use its US Treasury holdings as leverage in upcoming trade talks with the US, scheduled for April 17.
Itsunori Onodera, policy chief of the Liberal Democratic Party, e...
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- World Expo Opens In Japan In Rocky Times In Global Economy (仕事)
- HURRIYET DAILY NEWS
World Expo opened on Sunday with 160 countries and regions showcasing their technology, culture and food, with host Japan hoping to provide the world with some much-needed hop...
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- JR East Plans Facial Recognition System Experiment at Joetsu Shinkansen Ticket Gates (仕事)
- JAPAN NEWS
The East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) announced Tuesday it plans to experimentally deploy a system that will use facial recognition technology to allow passengers to move through ticket...
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