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Let the competition begin.
Now that Japan has enacted a law outlining a road map for casino resorts, foreign operators from Las Vegas Sands Corp. to MGM Resorts International can start to seek out partners in their bid to tap a gaming market that may be worth as much as $25 billion....

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TOKYO - Japan logged a trade surplus in June, after booking a deficit the previous month, official data showed Thursday, with exports rising despite ongoing international trade tensions.
Finance ministry data showed a surplus of 721.4 billion yen ($6.4 billion), up 66.5 percent from...

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NEW YORK (Jiji Press) — An event was held at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Monday to promote Osaka’s bid to host the 2025 World Expo.
Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura and Parliamentary Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Mitsunari Okamoto promoted the city to foreign diplomats...

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TOKYO (Reuters) — The nation is expected to report a third month of solid export growth in June, thanks to global demand for semiconductors and electronic parts, a Reuters poll showed, supporting views the economy is recovering from a first-quarter contraction.
Both exports and i...

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Major companies agreed to raise monthly employee pay by ¥8,539, or 2.53 percent, on average for unionized workers in this year’s shunto spring labor-management talks, a survey showed Tuesday.
The average pay hike topped 2 percent for five years in a row and exceeded ¥8,000 for the f...

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Nissan Motor Co. said Monday that it had tampered with data on fuel economy and exhaust emissions at its five plants in the country, including the Tochigi plant in Kaminokawa, Tochigi Prefecture.
The automaker altered data of 1,171 vehicles, which is more than half for which it c...

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The rise of cryptocurrencies has shone the spotlight on their underlying technology, which is known as the blockchain.
A wide number of startups are now pitching services using the technology, which is often touted as the next major development since the internet.
This trend was vis...

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TOKYO - Japanese airline ANA Holdings Inc said it will cancel 113 domestic flights between July 6 through July 12 to inspect Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc engines for compressor issues that have led to service interruptions for airlines globally.
The affected Rolls Royce Trent 1000 engin...

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FUKUOKA – West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) showed a Hello Kitty-themed bullet train to the media Monday before its debut later this week.
The white eight-car train, which is decorated with drawings of pink ribbons to mimic the look of the popular character created by Sanrio Co., was...

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KOBE (Jiji Press) — The chief of Kobe Steel Ltd. apologized to shareholders on Thursday over a product data falsification scandal involving the company.
“We deeply apologize for causing inconvenience to shareholders and clients,” Mitsugu Yamaguchi, Kobe Steel president and chief ...

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