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Consumer inflation in Japan accelerated to 3.0 percent in fiscal 2022 through March, the fastest pace in 41 years and above the Bank of Japan's 2 percent target, in what the central bank views as a blip caused by higher import costs and a weaker yen, government data showed Friday.
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Japan Post Insurance Co. said Wednesday that it will appoint Japan Post Bank Executive Vice President Kunio Tanigaki as its next president.
Tanigaki, 63, will succeed current Japan Post Insurance President Tetsuya Senda, 62, who will leave the post to take over the presidency of ...

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Japan's trade deficit roughly quadrupled to a record 21.73 trillion yen in fiscal 2022 ended March, as increased energy costs and a weaker yen led imports to grow far more than exports, the Finance Ministry said Thursday.
Imports jumped 32.2 percent from a year earlier to 120.95 tri...

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Kansai Electric Power Co.’s data access scandal has affected information on not just household customers but also corporate customers of rival power retailers, it was learned Wednesday.
Kansai Electric said on the day that a total of 2,010 employees and others had fraudulently ac...

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The buzz at Auto Shanghai when it opened Tuesday was the slew of electric vehicles being showcased.
Japanese automakers were among the manufacturers pushing their EV concepts at one of the largest auto shows in the world. China also happens to be where EVs are proliferating rapid...

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan's trade minister Yasutoshi Nishimura and his U.S. counterpart Katherine Tai affirmed Wednesday further cooperation in advancing negotiations of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework to set high trade standards amid concerns over China's growing clout.
"I hope that Japan and the U...

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The industry ministry issued business improvement orders on Monday to five power companies, including Kansai Electric Power Co., over unauthorized access to customer information of rival companies.
The ministry has found that the scandal could undermine the purpose of the liber...

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Japanese gaming group Sega has offered to buy the creator of the popular Angry Birds franchise, Finland's Rovio, in a deal worth more than 700 million euros ($770 million), the companies said Monday.
The deal would mark the end the independence of Finnish mobile game makers, which b...

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ECO-BUSINESS
 
Local resistance and high palm oil prices have slowed huge expansion plans for power plants fired by palm oil.
In 2011, Japan faced an unprecedented energy crisis after the Tohoku earthquake had devastated the country and badly damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
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The government is set to approve a plan by Osaka Prefecture and city to open what will be Japan's first casino resort in 2029, government sources said Wednesday.
The development comes as movement restrictions introduced during the coronavirus pandemic are removed, leading some local...

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