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Travel Agent Plans To Be Big In Japan For Rugby World Cup

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INDEPENDENT.IE
 
Rugby's Six Nations may not have even started, but one Irish travel agency is already looking further ahead and preparing for the thousands of Irish rugby fans set to travel to Japan later this year to follow their team at the Rugby World Cup.
Players in next month's Six Nations ...

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Student Entrepreneurs In Japan To Be Eligible For 1-Yr Visa Extension

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
The government is launching a new initiative aimed at growing the number of foreigners who want to use their experience studying in Japan to start businesses here.
The program would grant budding entrepreneurs “designated activities” (see below) visas that would allow them to ext...

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Domestic Firms Eye Africa’s Geothermal Power Sector

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Japanese electronics manufacturers are increasing their presence in Africa’s geothermal power generation sector, amid sluggish growth in orders for equipment for thermal power generation, which emits large amounts of greenhouse gasses.
Toshiba Corp., Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Syst...

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Japan Factory Output Falls In Sign Of Rising Pressure On Economy

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ECONOMIC TIMES
 
TOKYO: Japan's industrial output contracted in November and partially reversed the previous month's gain, in a sign of fragility in factory activity as increasing global risks threaten to undermine the country's export-reliant economy.
The 1.1 percent month-on-month fall, pressur...

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Abe Urges Wage Increase For Japan’s Workforce In Effort To Spur Consumption Before Tax Hike

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday asked business leaders to raise wages to spur consumption and mitigate the impact of next October’s planned sales tax hike, the sixth consecutive year he has requested such an increase.
“I would like to request a wage hike that will further cem...

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Nissan Scraps Rule That Gave Ghosn Power To Decide Executive Pay

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Nissan Motor Co has scrapped a company rule that effectively gave its former Chairman Carlos Ghosn discretion over executive pay, following criticism it may have allowed him to engage in alleged financial misconduct, sources close to the matter said.
As part of its efforts t...

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Amid Global Market Volatility, Japan May End Up Being One Of The Best Bets In 2019

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CNBC
 
Japan faces fewer micro and macro economic issues compared to the U.S., Europe and China — and might end up being one of the best bets in 2019, according to Viktor Shvets, the head of Asian strategy for Macquarie's commodities and global markets team.
Amid global market volatility and slow...

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Philippines' First LNG Terminal Sought By China And Japan

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NIKKEI ASIA
 
Manila prepares to import the fuel as its gas fields run dry
MANILA/BEIJING/TOKYO -- The Philippines has become a new front in China and Japan's infrastructure rivalry as companies from both countries bid to build the archipelago's first liquefied natural gas terminal.
In the past f...

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Facing Critical Labor Shortage, Japan Opens Door Wider To Foreign Workers

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NPR
 
Japanese lawmakers have passed controversial legislation expanding the number of semi-skilled foreign workers who can live and work in the notably insular nation for up to five years.
Japan has been pressed to make the change because of a critical labor shortage that results from its rapidl...

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Japan to OK Divisive Bill Allowing More Foreign Workers

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US NEWS
 
TOKYO (AP) — Japan is preparing to officially open the door to foreign workers to do unskilled jobs and possibly eventually become citizens.
Lawmakers were to vote early Saturday on government-proposed legislation allowing hundreds of thousands of foreign laborers to live and work in a ...

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