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910,000 New Recruits Start Work Across Japan
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO — Hundreds of thousands of Japanese started their first day on the job Friday in an annual ritual born from the country’s fast-disappearing jobs-for-life work culture.
More than 500 recruits pumped their fists in the air and shouted “yacchae, Nissan” (“go for it, Nissan”) at t...
TOKYO — Hundreds of thousands of Japanese started their first day on the job Friday in an annual ritual born from the country’s fast-disappearing jobs-for-life work culture.
More than 500 recruits pumped their fists in the air and shouted “yacchae, Nissan” (“go for it, Nissan”) at t...
- April 7, 2016
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Phone Carrier Price War Stifled
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THE JAPAN NEWS
By Katsutoshi Samata / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer
A directive issued by the communications ministry on Tuesday to two of the nation’s major mobile phone carriers over excessive discounts highlights the difficulty of encouraging the firms to rectify their business practices in a...
By Katsutoshi Samata / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer
A directive issued by the communications ministry on Tuesday to two of the nation’s major mobile phone carriers over excessive discounts highlights the difficulty of encouraging the firms to rectify their business practices in a...
- April 7, 2016
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IoT Revolution On Horizon For Business, Private Life
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THE JAPAN NEWS
By Daisuke Ichikawa and Yu Komagata / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers
The Internet of Things, or IoT (see below), which connects various objects through the Internet, will make family life more convenient and production in factories more efficient. This new market has brought busin...
By Daisuke Ichikawa and Yu Komagata / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers
The Internet of Things, or IoT (see below), which connects various objects through the Internet, will make family life more convenient and production in factories more efficient. This new market has brought busin...
- April 5, 2016
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Power Retail Market Opened for Competition
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THE JAPAN NEWS
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan’s electricity retail business was fully liberalized on Friday, a landmark reform initiative to crack open an ¥8-trillion market that had been controlled by regional power monopolies for 65 years.
With the start of the new fiscal year, a total of 266 com...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan’s electricity retail business was fully liberalized on Friday, a landmark reform initiative to crack open an ¥8-trillion market that had been controlled by regional power monopolies for 65 years.
With the start of the new fiscal year, a total of 266 com...
- April 2, 2016
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Takata Shares Plunge 20% On 'Worst Case' Airbag Recall Costs
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO — Takata’s shares plunged 20% in Tokyo Wednesday, after Bloomberg News said the embattled Japanese airbag supplier’s recall-related costs could come in as high as $24 billion.
Citing a person familiar with the matter, Bloomberg said the company estimated the “worst case” scena...
TOKYO — Takata’s shares plunged 20% in Tokyo Wednesday, after Bloomberg News said the embattled Japanese airbag supplier’s recall-related costs could come in as high as $24 billion.
Citing a person familiar with the matter, Bloomberg said the company estimated the “worst case” scena...
- March 31, 2016
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Japan Spending Gets Leap Year Boost, But Broader Outlook Dim
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO — Spending by Japanese families increased in February for the first time in six months, government data showed Tuesday, but analysts said the rare good news for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is likely to be short-lived.
Abe came to power in December 2012 vowing to rejuvenate the w...
TOKYO — Spending by Japanese families increased in February for the first time in six months, government data showed Tuesday, but analysts said the rare good news for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is likely to be short-lived.
Abe came to power in December 2012 vowing to rejuvenate the w...
- March 30, 2016
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Hokkaido Shinkansen Goes Into Service With Fanfare
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THE JAPAN NEWS
Jiji Press
HOKUTO, Hokkaido (Jiji Press) — Hokkaido Railway Co., or JR Hokkaido, opened its Shinkansen high-speed railway line for services on Saturday, with Shinkansen bullet trains connecting Honshu and Hokkaido underneath the Tsugaru Strait for the first time ever.
This opened...
Jiji Press
HOKUTO, Hokkaido (Jiji Press) — Hokkaido Railway Co., or JR Hokkaido, opened its Shinkansen high-speed railway line for services on Saturday, with Shinkansen bullet trains connecting Honshu and Hokkaido underneath the Tsugaru Strait for the first time ever.
This opened...
- March 29, 2016
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Government Eyes Tighter Rule to Restrict Long Overtime Work
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO — The Japanese government is considering setting an upper limit to the length of overtime work allowed under the labor standards law as part of its efforts to reform the nation’s labor system.
In Japan, companies can ask employees to work overtime once they form a labor-manage...
TOKYO — The Japanese government is considering setting an upper limit to the length of overtime work allowed under the labor standards law as part of its efforts to reform the nation’s labor system.
In Japan, companies can ask employees to work overtime once they form a labor-manage...
- March 28, 2016
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Krugman Urges Japan’s Expansion Of Fiscal Action
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The Yomiuri Shimbun
Nobel Prize-winning American economist Paul Krugman on Tuesday expressed a negative view on the Japanese government’s plan to raise the consumption tax rate from 8 percent to 10 percent in April 2017.
At the third round of the international financial and econo...
The Yomiuri Shimbun
Nobel Prize-winning American economist Paul Krugman on Tuesday expressed a negative view on the Japanese government’s plan to raise the consumption tax rate from 8 percent to 10 percent in April 2017.
At the third round of the international financial and econo...
- March 26, 2016
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Japan's Inflation Unchanged at Zero in February
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO — Japanese consumer inflation stuck at zero in February for the second straight month, marking another blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s struggle to end nagging deflation.
Abe came to power in December 2012 vowing to reverse the prolonged and debilitating decline in consumer...
TOKYO — Japanese consumer inflation stuck at zero in February for the second straight month, marking another blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s struggle to end nagging deflation.
Abe came to power in December 2012 vowing to reverse the prolonged and debilitating decline in consumer...
- March 26, 2016
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