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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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Japan Eases Conditions For Solar Power Subsidy Curbs

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
TOKYO (Reuters) — The Japanese government has decided to relax the conditions for cutting solar power subsidies for projects that have not started operations following opposition from power producers and other firms.
The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry in October had propose...

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Takeda Shareholders Agree To $60 Bil Shire Acquisition

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO  -  Shareholders at Japanese drug giant Takeda on Wednesday approved a plan to buy Irish pharmaceuticals firm Shire in a deal worth around $60 billion, the biggest foreign takeover ever by a Japanese firm.
A group of rebel investors, including members of the founding family, t...

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Japan Firm Warned Of Legal Step Over Korean Forced Laborers

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WASHINGTON POST
 
TOKYO — Lawyers for Korean wartime forced laborers have demanded that a Japanese steelmaker respond to their request to discuss compensation, warning Tuesday that they will otherwise take steps to freeze its assets in their country.
The two lawyers asked Nippon Steel & Sumitomo ...

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Japan To Ramp Up Public Works Spending To Decade-High Next Year: Nikkei

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EURO NEWS
 
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will ramp up public works spending to a decade-high next fiscal year as part of efforts to ease the hit to its economy from a scheduled sales tax hike in October 2019, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The government will spend over 3 trillion yen ($2...

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Japan Third Quarter Corporate Capex Up 4.5% Year-On-Year

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THE STAR ONLINE
 
TOKYO: Japanese companies raised spending on plant and equipment by 4.5 percent in July-September from the same period a year earlier, Ministry of Finance (MOF) data showed on Monday.
The data will be used to calculate revised gross domestic product figures due on Dec. 10.
A pre...

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Japan's Corporate Investment Slows Sharply, Raises Doubt About Outlook

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EURO NEWS
 
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese corporate capital expenditure rose for an eighth consecutive quarter in July-September but the pace of gains slowed sharply, raising doubts about the strength of business activity amid global trade frictions.
Ministry of Finance (MOF) data out on Monday show...

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SoftBank Becomes First Japan Firm to Forgo IPO Price Range, Keeps View at 1,500 yen

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THE STAR
 
TOKYO: SoftBank chalked up another first in Japan on Friday, setting a single indicative price of 1,500 yen for its telco IPO rather than a price range as usual, pegging the deal at 2.4 trillion yen ($21.16 billion) in the country's biggest-ever listing.
The price was unchanged from th...

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Japanese Rice Increasingly Shipped Abroad As Domestic Demand Wanes

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO  - Japanese rice farmers are seizing on their chance to boost sales for their high-quality product, amid a fall in domestic demand and expected liberalization of trade rules.
Kazuya Terasawa, 66, plans to export about 10 percent of this year's output from his rice field in the...

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