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Ministop To Restart In-Store Food Prep After Fake Expiry Date Scandal

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Japanese convenience store chain operator Ministop Co said Thursday it will resume sales of deli items prepared in in-store kitchens beginning this month, following a suspension after some shops were found to have falsified expiry dates.
The subsidiary of Japanese retail giant Aeon ...

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Japan’s Political Shakeup Opens Door For Real Estate Activism

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Activist investors are likely to find more opportunities in Japanese real estate as unrealized gains are poised to swell under new Liberal Democratic Party leader Sanae Takaichi.
The prospect of faster inflation and rising asset prices under Takaichi, who’s almost certain to become ...

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Rising Prices Affecting 80 Pct of Families in Japan: Survey

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NIPPON
 
Some 80 pct of households in Japan have felt the impact of rising prices on their family budgets, a survey conducted by Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. in early September showed Thursday.
The online survey, which covered 5,484 people in their 20s to 60s from across the country who are workin...

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Buzz Builds For A 50,000 Nikkei 225 As Index Breaks Yet Another Record

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Japanese stocks have hit a record for the ninth time in about six weeks, driven higher by a major transaction involving a Japanese company and on continued hopes for a rate cut in the United States.
Optimism surrounding the election of Sanae Takaichi as president of the Liberal Demo...

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Nissan to Launch New Leaf EV in Japan This Month

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NIPPON
 
Nissan Motor Co. said Wednesday that it will start accepting orders for the third-generation Leaf electric vehicle in Japan on Oct. 17.
The new model can travel 702 kilometers on a single battery charge, about 50 pct more than the second-generation Leaf. A battery can be charged from 10 ...

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Qilin Cybercrime Gang Claims Hack On Japan's Asahi

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Qilin, a ransomware group with a track record of cyberattacks on major entities around the world, claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a hack on Japan’s Asahi Group, which disrupted production at the beer and beverage giant.
Asahi’s beer-making subsidiary, Asahi Breweries, said on ...

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Takaichi's LDP Win May Send Nikkei To 50,000, But Uncertainty Looms

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JAPAN TODAY
 
The surprising selection of Sanae Takaichi as president of Japan's ruling party may further push up the Nikkei stock index to the 50,000 threshold, aided by a weaker yen as prospects of an imminent interest rate hike by the Bank of Japan recede.
The upward momentum of the key index,...

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Asahi Restarts Beer Production After Cyber-Attack

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BBC
 
Asahi has partially restarted production at all six of its breweries in Japan after it was forced to close them due to a cyber-attack.
Several major shops in Japan including 7-Eleven and FamilyMart had warned last week that they were running low on stocks of the beer after the hack affected...

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Japanese Convenience Store Opens New Branch Inside Public High School

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Matsudo High School, a public school in the town of Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, used to have a little campus store where students could buy bread, which in Japan encompasses snack-sized buns with sweet or savory fillings.
That’s still not a ton of variety, though, and in 2022 the sto...

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Japanese Airline ANA Plans to Raise Mandatory Retirement Age to 65 in FY27, in Effort to Address Labor Shortages

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JAPAN NEWS
 
All Nippon Airways Co. plans to raise the mandatory retirement age for its employees from 60 to 65 starting in fiscal 2027 and proposed the measure to its labor union on Tuesday.
Amid increasingly serious labor shortages, ANA aims to better utilize the expert knowledge of veteran wor...

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