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Mcdonald’s Japan To Release Its First Ever Rice Bun Burgers

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - With lobster mayo nugget sauce, purple potato and chocolate sauce fries, and even the strangely named Adult Cream Pies, McDonald's Japan's seasonal offerings never come to a stand still. That trend continues with their latest addition to their Yoru Mac (Night Mac) menu--McDo...

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Japan Arrests Ex-Softbank Employee Suspected Of Spying For Russia

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CHANNEL NEWS ASIA
 
Japanese police have arrested a former SoftBank employee for allegedly stealing proprietary information from the telecom giant and giving it to Russian officials, police and media reports said Sunday.
Tokyo - Japanese police have arrested a former SoftBank employee for alleged...

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Anxiety About Wuhan's Isolation Mounting Among Japanese Firms

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JAPAN TODAY
 
BEIJING - As public transportation services have been suspended in Wuhan, anxiety is mounting among Japanese people that their colleagues may be isolated in the central Chinese city, where a new, deadly coronavirus is believed to have originated.
Many Japanese companies operating in...

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Softbank-Backed Cloudminds Slashes Workforce

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
TOKYO (Reuters) — SoftBank-backed cloud robotics and artificial intelligence start-up CloudMinds is slashing its global workforce as it burns through cash after repeated attempts to list on the stock market, people familiar with the matter said.
Headed by former China Mobile rese...

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Japan Top Business Lobby Urges Review In Seniority-Based Employment

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THE MAINICHI
 
 
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's most powerful business lobby on Tuesday called on member companies to review the country's long-held employment practices, including automatic pay raises based on seniority and service longevity, amid the need to attract talent in a competitive and fast-d...

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A Roadmap For Repairing Rural Mobility In Japan - And Beyond

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WE FORUM
 
 Outside its cities, Japan's public transport system is in decline.Rural mobility is crucial to quality of life for many Japanese, especially odler generations.A new set of principles for rural mobility reform can help decision-makers address this issues usefully.Japan’s public transit...

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Japanese Firms Not Well Prepared For Increasing Floods: Poll

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Japanese companies have contingency plans for the floods that increasingly drench this island nation, but most have done little to fortify facilities, relying instead on insurance and securing alternative supply sources, a Reuters poll found.
Japanese have long been conditio...

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Sumitomo Forestry Buys Into WA Housing Market

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TIMBERBIZ
 
Sumitomo Forestry has entered into an agreement to acquire a 51% stake in Scott Park Group, a company that operates a custom-built housing business in Western Australia. The acquisition was made through its wholly owned Australian subsidiary, Sumitomo Forestry Australia Pty Ltd. Sourc...

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Foreign Treasury Pile Shrinks With China Further Trailing Japan

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YAHOO FINANCE
 
 
(Bloomberg) -- The tally of U.S. government debt held by other countries continues to shrink, leaving Japan with a larger lead over China as the top foreign owner, according to the latest data from the Treasury Department.
While Japan’s holdings of U.S. notes, bills and bonds fe...

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Japan's Music Industry Rises Again In New 'Age Of Discovery'

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NIKKEI ASIAN REVIEW
 
World's second-biggest market sees growth in live music and physical sales
TOKYO -- On a chilly evening last month, tens of thousands of people gathered at the Saitama Super Arena near Tokyo, one of Japan's biggest live music venues. People of all ages were thrilled to witne...

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