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TOKYO - Japanese car giant Toyota said Wednesday it wanted half of its global sales to come from electric-powered vehicles by 2030, as the industry strives to meet toughening environmental regulations.
Electric-powered vehicles currently represent around 15 percent of the roughly 10...

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Toshiba Corp., which is undergoing business reconstruction, announced Wednesday that it had settled its dispute with Western Digital Corp. of the United States over the planned sale of its memory chip subsidiary, Toshiba Memory Corp.
Toshiba and Western Digital will each withdraw...

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TOKYO - Japan's army of retail investors, no strangers to high risk bets in the past, have emerged as a major force in bitcoin's spectacular rally, now accounting for an estimated 30-50 percent of trading in the cryptocurrency as it spikes to record highs.
Once skeptics, Japanese re...

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TOKYO - The Union of Kansai Governments (UKG) is a statutory entity covering the prefectural governments and the designated cities of Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, and Sakai. For the past several years, the Kansai chapter of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) and UKG have engage...

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Japan and the European Union concluded more than four years of negotiations over an economic partnership agreement on Friday that will bring to fruition an enormous and significant free-trade bloc. The two sides intend to use the agreement to promote free trade amid a global spre...

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TOKYO - Honda Motor Co's N-Box minicar kept its top spot in monthly sales in Japan for November for the third straight month, while scandal-hit Nissan Motor Co regained a spot in the top 10, data released by auto industry bodies showed Wednesday.
Honda sold 20,992 units of the N-Box...

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TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Lawson Inc. said Monday it will introduce unattended checkout counter services late at night at some of its stores, in the first such step by a Japanese convenience store operator to tackle manpower shortages.
Lawson will start tests for such unattended opera...

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The Japan Council of Metalworkers’ Unions (JCM) is coordinating its member labor unions’ joint demand for a basic pay scale hike at ¥3,000 or more a month in the shunto annual spring labor-management wage negotiations in 2018.
JCM comprises major industrial federations of labor...

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TOKYO - Japan Airlines said Tuesday it had invested $10 million in U.S. airline company Boom Supersonic to help revive supersonic flights that could cut journey times in half.
The Japanese airline company will also have the option to buy up to 20 Boom aircraft through a pre-order ar...

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Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. plans to halve its 45 branches through mergers and closures, and transfer several thousand of its about 15,000 branch employees to new business sectors, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
The latest management challenge for TEPCO is how t...

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