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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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Visitors To Japan In ’18 Set To Hit 30 Million

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The number of visitors to Japan in 2018 is expected to reach 30 million as early as next week, tourism minister Keiichi Ishii said Friday.
It would be the first time for Japan to have 30 million visitors in a year.
Speaking at a press conference, Ishii said, ...

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Amazon Japan And Mercari Join Japan’s Top Business Lobby Keidanren

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Amazon Japan, a unit of U.S. online retail giant Amazon.com Inc., and flea market app operator Mercari Inc. joined Keidanren, Japan’s top business lobby, on Friday, the organization said.
Keidanren, mainly consisting of major manufacturers as its members, is apparently looking to re...

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EU-Japan Trade Deal Approved For 2019

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INDEPENDENT ONLINE
 
INTERNATIONAL – European Union and Japanese plans to form the world’s largest free trade area cleared their final hurdle on Wednesday when EU lawmakers backed a partnership set to enter force early next year.
The European Parliament voted 474 in favour to 156 against the agre...

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Japanese Firms See Trade War, Sales Tax Pressuring Economy In 2019: Poll

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO  -  Most Japanese firms expect flat or weaker domestic growth next year and are even more pessimistic about global growth amid concerns over the impact of the U.S.-China trade war and a planned sales tax hike at home, a Reuters poll shows.
"There's no doubt the sales tax incre...

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Tough Market for Streaming, Japan Gets Hi-Res Service From Sony Music

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BILLBOARD
 
 "I’m not sure this service will be successful," remarks a Sony Music Entertainment Japan executive on "mora qualitas," a collaboration with Rhapsody.
Sony Music’s new Japanese high-resolution streaming service may face an uphill battle in a market that’s been slow to embrace streamin...

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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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Japan Foods In Regional Tie-Up With Minor Singapore

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STRAITS TIMES
 
 
They will run each other's brands in Thailand, China and Japan
Catalist-listed Japan Foods Holding has teamed up with a fellow restaurant operator to run each other's brands in Japan, Thailand and China.
The collaboration involves creating a joint venture with Minor Singapore, a...

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Revenue At Japan's Rakuten Expected To Top 1 Trillion Yen

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ASIA NIKKEI
 
 
Online retailer expects to be 1st company founded after 1990 to reach milestone
TOKYO -- Japanese online retailer Rakuten expects its revenue to exceed 1 trillion yen ($8.85 billion) for the first time this year, some two decades after it was founded in 1997.
The company believes ...

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