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ANA To Acquire 9.5% Stake In PAL

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - ANA Holdings, the parent company of All Nippon Airways, is to invest $95 million in PAL Holdings and acquire 9.5% of PAL Holding’s outstanding shares.
PAL Holdings is the parent of Philippine Airlines Inc (PAL), the Philippine flag carrier.
ANA will acquire the shares from T...

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EU-Japan Trade: Five Things About The World's Biggest Deal

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BBC
 
Cheaper wine and cheese for Japan, cheaper cars for the EU - part of what the EU-Japan trade deal, now in force, means.
The world's biggest such deal, it covers nearly a third of global GDP and 635 million people.
However there are warnings that the UK could lose its benefits if it leaves ...

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Giant Japan Financial Firm Headed To Plano's Legacy West

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DALLAS NEWS
 
Plano's $3 billion Legacy West development has landed another major Japanese company.
The hugely successful real estate project at the southwest corner of the Dallas North Tollway and State Highway 121 is home to Toyota's North American headquarters. NTT Data, a unit of Japan's Nipp...

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Japan's Labor Shortage Hits 45-Year High

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - There were 161 jobs for every 100 jobseekers on average last year in Japan, the highest ratio since 1973, highlighting the labor shortage in the world's third-largest economy and its aging society.
According to labour ministry data released on Friday, the ratio was even high...

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Japan Factory Output Falls For 2nd Month In A Row Amid Trade War Worries

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STRAITS TIMES
 
TOKYO 9REUTERS) - Japan's factory output fell for a second straight month in December, in the latest sign slowing global growth and the US-China trade war weighed on exports and curbed manufacturing activity.
The 0.1 per cent decline in factory output was less than a median market...

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JAL Establishes Corporate Venture Capital Fund

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Japan Airlines has established a corporate venture capital fund (CVC) firm, it has called Japan Airlines Innovation Fund.
The company will look to invest in startup companies around the globe that will help JAL "to create new values that are one step ahead of its competitors...

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Japanese Firms See Opportunity In S.E. Asia Garbage

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
JAKARTA — The rapid economic development experienced across Southeast Asia has created a serious garbage problem, as growing volumes of rubbish highlight a shortage of disposal sites.
But in this problem lies an opportunity for Japanese companies with incineration expertise to be...

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Travel Agent Plans To Be Big In Japan For Rugby World Cup

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INDEPENDENT.IE
 
Rugby's Six Nations may not have even started, but one Irish travel agency is already looking further ahead and preparing for the thousands of Irish rugby fans set to travel to Japan later this year to follow their team at the Rugby World Cup.
Players in next month's Six Nations ...

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Japanese Firms Wary Of Boosting Investment Amid Intensifying Trade War

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Over a third of Japanese firms aim to raise capital expenditure in the fiscal year starting April, with many others worried about the impact on spending plans of a trade war between major markets China and the United States, a Reuters survey showed.
Tit-for-tat import tariff...

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Japan Business Chief: We're Building Society 5.0 With Israeli Tech

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GLOBES
 
 
 
Hiromichi Shinohara: We put the biggest emphasis on the combination of Japanese and Israeli technologies. In the framework of a delegation of Japanese businesspeople visiting Israel last week, a meeting took place between the Israel Manufacturers Association and Keidanren (Japanese B...

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