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Nikkei Closes at 21-year High

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Tokyo's benchmark stock index closed at a more than two-decade high Wednesday, as the Japanese market rides a global equities rally with its U.S. counterparts hitting fresh records.
The Nikkei 225 rose 0.28 percent, or 57.76 points, to end at 20,881.27, its best finish since...

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Smart Speakers Make Japan Debuts

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Competition among manufacturers of voice-controlled speakers with integrated artificial intelligence software has intensified as the Japanese arm of U.S. tech giant Google Inc. announced the launch of its smart speaker last week.
Line Corp., best known for its free messaging app,...

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Transport Ministry Says Unauthorized Staff Certified Cars at 5 Nissan Plants

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Japanese Transport Minister Keiichi Ishii said on Friday that unauthorised technicians had been found certifying vehicles at five Nissan Motor Co plants that the ministry has been inspecting.
The unauthorised technicians included contract workers, Ishii told a news conferenc...

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2017 Lower House Election / Kibo Pledges Tax Hike Freeze, No N-power

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Kibo no To (Party of Hope), the new party led by Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, released its pledges for the Oct. 22 House of Representatives election on Friday — including a freeze on the planned consumption tax rate hike and the realization of “zero nuclear power” by 2030.
Kibo says ...

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Food Industries Join Low-carb Diet Trend

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Restaurants and retailers are trying to reduce the carbohydrates in their foods with an eye on the increasing number of people who are trimming carbs from their diets to lose weight or avoid lifestyle-related diseases.
Bread, rice and noodles are among the foods that are high in ...

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Parcel Delivery, Food Price Hikes to Hit Home in October

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Many companies, including parcel delivery firms and food product makers, raised prices on Sunday chiefly to cover spiraling material procurement and labor costs.
Although some of the markups will be made in the wholesale stage, households in the country, whic...

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Japanese Companies Struggle to Hire, Retain Staff as Labor Shortage Worsens

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Companies in Japan's service industries are struggling to hire and retain staff as the labor market becomes the tightest in decades, and are increasingly taking unorthodox steps to alleviate the shortage.
That can include looking to housewives and the retired to come into or...

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Nissan Used Unauthorized Workers in Vehicle Inspections

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Nissan Motor Co. said Friday that final inspections of new finished vehicles of the firm had been conducted by employees who were not properly authorized to perform such checks.
As defects may have been overlooked, the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tour...

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Bain to Aim for Toshiba Chip Unit IPO as Early as 2020

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Bain Capital’s consortium plans to take Toshiba Corp.’s flash-memory unit public two to three years after closing its ¥2 trillion acquisition of the business, according to people familiar with the matter.
The precise timing of the initial public offering will ...

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Job Availability At Four-decade High, Unemployment Steady in Aug

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Japan's labor market conditions remained tight in August, with job availability at the highest level in over four decades and the unemployment rate steady, government data showed Friday.
The country's job availability remained unchanged from July at 1.52, the highest since F...

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