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Give Employees A Break Or Cash In On New Year’s Day?

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Amid a severe labor shortage, retailers and restaurant chains face a dilemma over the year-end and New Year period: should they briefly close their doors for a holiday, or keep the cash registers ringing?
A growing number of retailers and restaurant chains are opting to stay clos...

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Japan's Output, Retail Sales Fall, Signaling Economic Strains

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THE TELEGRAM
 
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's industrial output slipped for the second straight month in November, raising the likelihood the economy will contract in the fourth quarter due to slowing demand abroad and at home.
Japan's economy has cooled in recent months due to a prolonged hit to expo...

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Japan Regulators Signal Caution Over CLO Market's Expansion

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BUSINESS TIMES
 
JAPAN needs to remain vigilant about its banks' overseas investments in bundled credit products because the underlying loans may be less spread out across industries or individual companies than they appear, a senior regulatory official said.
"Even if banks individually think the...

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Bottoms Up: Japan’s Wine Consumption Nearly Quadruples in 30 Years

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NIPPON
 
Japan has developed a taste for wine. According to National Tax Agency statistics, wine consumption in 2017 increased by 3.1% from the previous year to 364,000 kiloliters, the equivalent of approximately 485 million standard bottles. This marks a nearly four-fold increase over the last t...

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Softbank's $3B Wework Financing Talks Stall With Japan Banks

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FOX BUSINESS
 
The stall is complicating a $9.5 billion rescue packageSoftBank Group Corp's talks to secure $3 billion from Japan's three biggest banks have stalled as the lenders have hit internal lending limits to the firm, two people said, complicating a $9.5 billion rescue package for WeWork....

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Fidelity’s Japan Fund Bets on Nation’s 5G Stocks for 2020

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BLOOMBERG
 
Fidelity International’s biggest equity fund in Japan is betting technology companies will help boost the nation’s stock market in 2020.
The asset manager’s Japan Growth Fund is up 29% this year, beating almost all of its peers, according to Bloomberg data. The fund has managed to sta...

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Japan's Top Business Lobby Group Working With Int'l Body To Raise Ratio Of Female Execs

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THE MAINICHI
 
 
 
TOKYO -- The Japan Business Federation (Keidanren), the country's powerful business lobby group, is teaming up with an international group to try and boost the number of female executives at major companies in the country.
 
Keidanren exchanged a memorandum on Dec. 18 with the ...

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Potential Violations Seen In 12,836 Kampo Contracts

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan Post Holdings Co. President Masatsugu Nagato suggested Wednesday that he will consider stepping down from the post to take responsibility for improper sales practices for “Kampo” insurance products of subsidiary Japan Post Insurance Co..
“The whole mana...

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Japan Post CEO May Resign After 12,836 Improper Insurance Sales Uncovered

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - The top executive of Japan Post Holdings Co said Wednesday he is considering resigning in the wake of a probe that uncovered more than 12,000 cases of suspected improper sales of insurance products at two subsidiaries in the five years through March 2019.
"Regarding manageme...

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Japan Raises Economic Growth Forecast For Next Fiscal Year

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MANILA BUSINESS
 
TOKYO – Japan’s government raised its economic growth forecast for the next fiscal year, helped by an expected boost from a $122 billion fiscal package that would help cushion the hit from weaker global demand.
he economy is now expected to expand 1.4% in price-adjusted real ter...

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