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Self-Driving Taxis to Begin Test Runs in Tokyo; Waymo, Others to Operate 25 Vehicles in Various Wards
- Category:Driving
JAPAN NEWS
Three companies including Waymo LLC, a self-driving vehicle company affiliated with Google LLC’s parent Alphabet Inc., announced Thursday that they will begin test runs of self-driving taxis in Tokyo from Monday.
Taxi drivers belonging to Nihon Kotsu Co., a major taxi company in Toky...
Three companies including Waymo LLC, a self-driving vehicle company affiliated with Google LLC’s parent Alphabet Inc., announced Thursday that they will begin test runs of self-driving taxis in Tokyo from Monday.
Taxi drivers belonging to Nihon Kotsu Co., a major taxi company in Toky...
- April 15, 2025
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Japan's FY 2025 Defense-Related Outlay To Total 1.8% Of FY 2022 GDP
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KYODO NEWS
Japan's defense-related spending for fiscal 2025 is expected to total about 9.9 trillion yen ($70 billion), equivalent to 1.8 percent of gross domestic product three years earlier, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Tuesday.
Nakatani told a press conference that the government will a...
Japan's defense-related spending for fiscal 2025 is expected to total about 9.9 trillion yen ($70 billion), equivalent to 1.8 percent of gross domestic product three years earlier, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Tuesday.
Nakatani told a press conference that the government will a...
- April 15, 2025
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Innovation Over Tradition Sending Dassai Sake To The Moon
- Category:Gourmet
JAPAN TODAY
If humans eventually colonize the moon, the early settlers might toast their success with a bottle of sake, realizing the dream of brewer Asahi Shuzo Co.
Yamaguchi-based Asahi Shuzo, known for its Dassai sake brand, in February took a leap forward, unveiling at an event in Tokyo a b...
If humans eventually colonize the moon, the early settlers might toast their success with a bottle of sake, realizing the dream of brewer Asahi Shuzo Co.
Yamaguchi-based Asahi Shuzo, known for its Dassai sake brand, in February took a leap forward, unveiling at an event in Tokyo a b...
- April 13, 2025
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Japan Won’t Use US Treasury Holdings In Tariff Talks
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TECH IN ASIA
Japan will not use its US Treasury holdings as leverage in upcoming trade talks with the US, scheduled for April 17.
Itsunori Onodera, policy chief of the Liberal Democratic Party, emphasized that Japan, as a US ally, wants to avoid actions that could disrupt financial markets. “Ca...
Japan will not use its US Treasury holdings as leverage in upcoming trade talks with the US, scheduled for April 17.
Itsunori Onodera, policy chief of the Liberal Democratic Party, emphasized that Japan, as a US ally, wants to avoid actions that could disrupt financial markets. “Ca...
- April 13, 2025
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World Expo Opens In Japan In Rocky Times In Global Economy
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HURRIYET DAILY NEWS
World Expo opened on Sunday with 160 countries and regions showcasing their technology, culture and food, with host Japan hoping to provide the world with some much-needed hope.
Expo 2025 opened with the theme of life, world and the future, and Japan hopes to bring unity and...
World Expo opened on Sunday with 160 countries and regions showcasing their technology, culture and food, with host Japan hoping to provide the world with some much-needed hope.
Expo 2025 opened with the theme of life, world and the future, and Japan hopes to bring unity and...
- April 13, 2025
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JR East Plans Facial Recognition System Experiment at Joetsu Shinkansen Ticket Gates
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JAPAN NEWS
The East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) announced Tuesday it plans to experimentally deploy a system that will use facial recognition technology to allow passengers to move through ticket gates for the Joetsu Shinkansen bullet train line at Niigata and Nagaoka stations.
The company will...
The East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) announced Tuesday it plans to experimentally deploy a system that will use facial recognition technology to allow passengers to move through ticket gates for the Joetsu Shinkansen bullet train line at Niigata and Nagaoka stations.
The company will...
- April 11, 2025
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Ishiba And NATO Chief Vow To Deepen Security Ties As Regional Threats Rise
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JAPAN TODAY
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and NATO chief Mark Rutte vowed Wednesday to further deepen military ties while stressing the need to tackle together growing threats from China, North Korea and Russia.
Japan, which has stepped up defense ties with the United States, its key a...
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and NATO chief Mark Rutte vowed Wednesday to further deepen military ties while stressing the need to tackle together growing threats from China, North Korea and Russia.
Japan, which has stepped up defense ties with the United States, its key a...
- April 10, 2025
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Japan To Sell More Rice Reserves As Prices Soar
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FRANCE 24
Japan will sell more rice from its emergency stockpile through July in an attempt to stabilise soaring prices, the agricultural minister said Wednesday.
After rice prices nearly doubled year-on-year, the government began auctioning its stockpile last month -- the first time since it w...
Japan will sell more rice from its emergency stockpile through July in an attempt to stabilise soaring prices, the agricultural minister said Wednesday.
After rice prices nearly doubled year-on-year, the government began auctioning its stockpile last month -- the first time since it w...
- April 10, 2025
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Fujifilm 'Instax' Camera Series Unit Sales Top 100 Million Worldwide
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JAPAN TODAY
Unit sales of Fujifilm Corp's "instax" instant camera series have exceeded 100 million, the company said Tuesday, with the brand's roughly 30-year run continuing to draw interest both in Japan and abroad as new models go into production.
The first-generation instax camera debuted in...
Unit sales of Fujifilm Corp's "instax" instant camera series have exceeded 100 million, the company said Tuesday, with the brand's roughly 30-year run continuing to draw interest both in Japan and abroad as new models go into production.
The first-generation instax camera debuted in...
- April 10, 2025
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Japanese Regional Business Cite Concern over U.S. Tariffs in BOJ Report; Personal Consumption Viewed Positively
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JAPAN NEWS
Anxiety over tariff policies announced by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is spreading throughout Japan.
Regional economic assessments remained unchanged in all nine regions of the country in the Bank of Japan’s April Regional Economic Report released on Monday. How...
Anxiety over tariff policies announced by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is spreading throughout Japan.
Regional economic assessments remained unchanged in all nine regions of the country in the Bank of Japan’s April Regional Economic Report released on Monday. How...
- April 9, 2025
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