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Bic Camera Completes Renovations at 3 Ikebukuro Stores; JR Yamanote Line Platform Sign Now Reads ‘Ikebukuro (BicCamera Mae)’

  • Category:Shopping
JAPAN NEWS
 
Major electronics retailer Bic Camera Inc. has completed renovations on three of its stores in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district, including its flagship location.
As competition among electronics retailers intensifies in the district, where Bic Camera’s was founded, the company is putting i...

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Three Major Japan Life Insurers See Revenue Growth In April-September

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Three of japan's four major life insurance companies enjoyed insurance premium income growth in april-september, their earnings reports have shown.
All the four — nippon life insurance, meiji yasuda life insurance, sumitomo life insurance and dai-ichi life holdings — saw their singl...

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Japan’s Hopes for Seafood Exports Shot Down in China Spat

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JAPAN NEWS
 
Exports of Japanese marine products to China have hit another snag, just days after they resumed this month for the first time in about two years.
Apparently, this is a response to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Diet remark about a Taiwan contingency and looks to deal a blow to the ...

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Japan's Exports To The World Rise But Drop To U.S. Due To Tariffs

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Japan’s global exports rose 3.7% in October from a year earlier while imports from the world edged up 0.6%, according to government data released Friday.
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Exports to the U.S. dipped 3.1%, marking the seventh straight month of year-on-year declines mainly due to higher U.S. tariffs,...

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Burger King Japan To Be Bought By America’s Goldman-Sachs

  • Category:Gourmet
JAPAN TODAY
 
You don’t have to be a financial genius to realize that you could buy a lot of hamburgers with 70 billion yen. But did you know that dropping that much cash would allow you to buy all the hamburgers?
Well, all the hamburgers from Burger King Japan, to be more precise. The above sum ...

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Toyota To Invest $912 Mil In U.S. Factories To Meet Hybrid Demand

  • Category:Driving
JAPAN TODAY
 
Toyota Motor Corp said Tuesday it would invest a total $912 million in five factories in the United States to meet the growing demand for hybrid vehicles.
The move is part of the company's plan, announced last week, to invest up to an additional $10 billion in the United States over...

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Niigata Gov. to OK Restart of N-Plant; Kashiwazaki-Kariwa May Be Tepco’s 1st Restarted Plant Since 2011

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JAPAN NEWS
 
Niigata Prefecture Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi has told relevant parties that he intends to approve the restart of Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in the prefecture, according to sources.
He will announce his final decision soon.
The governor will sub...

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Essential Services Shortage to Hit Japan’s GDP By Up to ¥76 Tril. By 2040

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JAPAN NEWS
 
A projection estimates that if shortages persist in essential services such as caregiving, transportation, and logistics, Japan’s real GDP, adjusted for price fluctuations, could decline by up to ¥76 trillion by 2040.
The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry compiled the projection, ...

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Japan Sees 3.9 Mil. Foreign Visitors In Oct., Second Highest Monthly Figure

  • Category:Tourism
KYODO NEWS
 
The number of foreign visitors to Japan in October rose 17.6 percent from a year earlier to around 3.9 million, the second highest monthly total on record, government estimates showed Tuesday.
By country and region, South Korea topped the list with 867,200 visitors, up 18.4 percent, ...

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Japan Prime Minister Takaichi Vows to Have Country Exit Deflation, Closely Monitor Economic Indicators

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JAPAN NEWS
 
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi expressed her strong intention to closely watch economic indicators to eventually declare that Japan has exited deflation, at a House of Representatives Budget Committee meeting on Tuesday.
Takaichi defined an exit from deflation as a situation in which ...

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