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At Asia-Europe Meeting, Abe Issues Appeal for Upholding Multilateral Free Trade System

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JAPAN TIMES
 
BRUSSELS – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday delivered a full-throated appeal for maintaining the multilateral free trade system led by the World Trade Organization to counter U.S. protectionist policies and China’s assertive approach to trade.
It is important to uphold the multil...

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Japan Inflation Ticks Up As Oil Rises But BOJ Target Remains Elusive

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Japan’s annual core consumer inflation ticked up in September but remained at half the pace of the central bank’s elusive 2 percent target, underscoring the challenge of meeting the price goal as escalating trade frictions cloud the economic outlook.
While the rate of increa...

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Japan Maker of Quake Shock Absorbers Reports Data Fabrication; Products Installed in Hundreds of Buildings Nationwide

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Japanese shock absorber-maker KYB Corp. said Tuesday it fabricated quality data for seismic absorption and control devices installed in nearly 1,000 buildings across the quake-prone country.
KYB, which mainly manufactures shock absorbers used in cars and trains, operates in 24 count...

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Japan To Pledge 2019 Tax Hike to Address Debt Mountain

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CHANNEL NEWS ASIA
 
TOKYO: Japan will announce on Monday a sales tax hike in 2019 after repeated delays, reports said on Sunday (Oct 14), in an effort to address the nation's huge public debt.
The world's third-largest economy has one of the highest debt-to-GDP ratios among rich nations. Much of ...

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BOJ's Kuroda Says Fed Rate Hikes Good For Global Economy

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JAPAN TODAY
 
NUSA DUA, Indonesia - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Saturday steady interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve were "basically good" for the world economy, shrugging off concerns that higher U.S. rates could hurt Asian economies by triggering capital outflows.
Kurod...

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Japan Issues Warning Against Volatile Stock, Currency Moves

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JAPAN TODAY
 
NUSA DUA, Indonesia - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Thursday he was watching stock and currency moves with vigilance, issuing a warning over the yen's recent appreciation that could damage the country's export-reliant economic recovery.
He said the decline in stocks was...

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Nikkei Posts Biggest One-day Loss Since March Following Plunge on Wall Street

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The Nikkei stock average plunged nearly 4 percent on Thursday, posting its biggest one-day loss since March.
Stock markets in other parts of Asia also tumbled, after Wall Street’s worst losses in eight months led to broader risk aversion, a rise in market volatility gauges and conce...

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Japan Logs ¥1.84 tril Current Account Surplus in August

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Japan logged a current account surplus of 1.84 trillion yen ($16.3 billion) in August, marking the 50th straight month of black ink, government data showed Tuesday.
But the margin of surplus in the current account, one of the widest gauges of international trade, shrank 23.4...

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Yoshinoya’s 1st Outlet Closes in Tsukiji Market

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The first Yoshinoya gyudon beef-on-rice bowl restaurant, located inside Tokyo’s Tsukiji wholesale food market, closed its doors for the last time on Saturday, ending its 59-year history, due to the relocation of the famed market.
Many customers stood in line ...

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Japanese Cheesemakers Fret Over EU Trade Deal

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JAPAN TODAY
 
NASUSHIOBARA, Tochigi - It was three decades ago, but Kazuhiko Ochiai still remembers his first taste of cheese when he visited France, a palate pleaser that inspired the former researcher to start producing his own variety in Japan.
But he now frets that a massive EU-Japan trade de...

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