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Japan's July Seafood Exports To China Down 23% On Blanket Radiation Testing

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KYODO NEWS
 
The value of Japan's seafood exports to China fell 23.2 percent in July from a year earlier to 7.7 billion yen ($52 million), partly due to the neighboring country's blanket radiation testing on such products that started that month, government data showed Tuesday.
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Japan Fair Trade Body Probes Scandal-Hit Bigmotor Over Subcontracts

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Japan's Fair Trade Commission has launched an investigation into Bigmotor Co's business practices as the scandal-hit used car dealership and repair chain is suspected of infringing on the profits of subcontractors, sources familiar with the matter said Saturday.
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Japan Business Leaders To Make 1st China Visit After COVID In January

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japanese business leaders will visit China in January for the first time since 2019 following disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, with preparations underway for a meeting with President Xi Jinping's leadership, sources familiar with the bilateral relationship said Friday.
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Ceremony Held for Rapidus Plant in Hokkaido

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JAPAN NEWS
 
Chipmaker Rapidus Corp. held a groundbreaking ceremony Friday for a plant in Chitose in Hokkaido.
Tokyo-based Rapidus aims to produce next-generation chips with a circuit line width of 2 nanometers, which are used in cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence.
The gove...

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Yodobashi to Buy Land of Seibu Ikebukuro Department Store

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JAPAN NEWS
 
Japanese electronics retailer Yodobashi Holdings Co. plans to buy the land of department store chain Sogo & Seibu Co.’s Seibu Ikebukuro store in Tokyo for some ¥300 billion, people familiar with the matter said Thursday.
Yodobashi will purchase the land from U.S. private equity firm ...

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First Strike In Six Decades Closes Famous Japanese Department Store

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JAPAN TODAY
 
The shutters were down on one of Japan's best-known department stores on Thursday in the sector's first strike for six decades, sparked by fears that its mooted new U.S. owner will slash jobs.
The Seibu in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district attracts around 70 million visitors a year to its ...

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Google’s AI Search Service SGE Available in Japan on Trial Basis

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JAPAN NEWS
 
Google’s generative artificial intelligence search engine arrived Wednesday in Japan on a trial basis.
Introduced in the United States in May, the U.S. big tech company made Japan the second nation to have access to Search Generative Experience (SGE).
This February, U.S. tech giant M...

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Toyota Will Resume Production In Japan Wednesday After System Malfunction

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CNN
 
Toyota will resume operations at its Japanese assembly plants Wednesday after a 24-hour stoppage caused by disruption to its finely-tuned supply chain.
The world’s biggest automaker by sales said that its 14 vehicle factories in the country had paused activity Tuesday because a system malfu...

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Japan Regulator To Monitor Potential BOJ Impact On Regional Banks

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CNA
 
Japan's financial regulator will closely monitor how central bank policy impacts regional banks, as the world's third-largest economy approaches the normalisation of its monetary settings after years of massive easing.
The Financial Services Agency (FSA) "will monitor how potential changes ...

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Japan Has Better Chance Of Seeing End To Deflation, Government Says

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Amid recent strong wage growth and broadening price hikes, Japan stands a better chance of finally breaking with the deflation that has "shackled" the nation for a quarter of a century, the government said Tuesday in its annual economic and fiscal policy report.
The government has y...

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