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Dragon Ball Fighting Game Vaults Bandai Namco Onto Esports Stage

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Here comes a new challenger to the esports arena.
Bandai Namco Holdings Inc. broke the all-time Twitch streaming record for the biggest fighting game tournament this year with “Dragon Ball FighterZ” (or DBFZ for short), trouncing long-standing favorites such as Capcom Co.’s “Street ...

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Foreign Casino Operators Go All In As They Vie for Osaka License

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JAPAN TODAY
 
OSAKA - In late July, a lavish fireworks display lit up Osaka's skies in the finale to one of Japan's most famous festivals, courtesy of a first-time sponsor: Macau casino operator Melco Resorts and Entertainment Ltd.
The company's chief executive, 41-year-old billionaire Lawrence H...

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Toyota to Ramp Up Production, Sales in China

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JAPAN TODAY
 
BEIJING - Toyota Motor Corp is likely to make 120,000 more cars a year in the Chinese port city of Tianjin as part of a medium-term strategy that's gathering pace as China-Japan ties improve, said four company insiders with knowledge of the matter.
The Japanese auto maker's plan to ...

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Firms Creating Rest Places for Wildlife at Factories

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japanese manufacturers are stepping up efforts to create greenery areas that help preserve local ecosystems within the premises of their factories.
The moves come as businesses are increasingly asked to make contributions to biodiversity conservation at inter...

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Real Estate Japan Forms Alliance with Airbnb Japan to Promote Private Home Sharing

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO
Real Estate Japan Inc, a subsidiary of Fuji Media Holdings Inc, Airbnb Japan Inc and matsuri technologies Inc have formed a comprehensive business alliance in the areas of private home sharing and residential leasing, with the aim of promoting the legal growth of private home ...

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Support For Working Women Growing in Japan, But Smaller Companies Lag Behind

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Programs to support women in the workforce are expanding in Japan, nearly three years after the enactment of a new law aimed at making the country’s business environment more female-friendly.
The law took partial effect in September 2015 and came into full force in April 2016. Under...

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SoftBank's Son Says WeWork Is His 'Next Alibaba'

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NEWS ON JAPAN
 
Japan's SoftBank Group has agreed to invest an additional $1 billion in shared-office company WeWork, where SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son sees the potential for a repeat of his lucrative bet on Alibaba Group Holding.
The funding comes in the form of convertible bonds, according to We...

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Will Japan’s Epic Tourism Boom Go Bust in the Coming Years?

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TOKYO BUSINESS TODAY
 
As anyone who is even remotely paying attention is already well aware, Japan is a nation that is currently experiencing an unprecedented tourism boom. Since about 2013, the annual total number of foreign visitors has continued to smash the record set just the previous year....

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M&As By Japan Companies Top ¥20 tril. in 1st Half

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Japanese companies have been increasingly engaged in mergers and acquisitions, with the total value of such deals exceeding ¥20 trillion in the first half of this year — the first time ever for the January-June period.
Backed by strong business performances and the nation’s ultra...

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Over 80% of Japan's Transport Operators Found to Have Breached Labor Rules

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - More than 80 percent of Japanese operators hiring truck, bus and taxi drivers supervised by authorities last year were found to have breached labor rules, with illegal overtime work accounting for more than half of those violations, according to a recently released governmen...

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