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Google’s AI Search Service SGE Available in Japan on Trial Basis

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JAPAN NEWS
 
Google’s generative artificial intelligence search engine arrived Wednesday in Japan on a trial basis.
Introduced in the United States in May, the U.S. big tech company made Japan the second nation to have access to Search Generative Experience (SGE).
This February, U.S. tech giant M...

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Toyota Will Resume Production In Japan Wednesday After System Malfunction

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CNN
 
Toyota will resume operations at its Japanese assembly plants Wednesday after a 24-hour stoppage caused by disruption to its finely-tuned supply chain.
The world’s biggest automaker by sales said that its 14 vehicle factories in the country had paused activity Tuesday because a system malfu...

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Japan Regulator To Monitor Potential BOJ Impact On Regional Banks

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CNA
 
Japan's financial regulator will closely monitor how central bank policy impacts regional banks, as the world's third-largest economy approaches the normalisation of its monetary settings after years of massive easing.
The Financial Services Agency (FSA) "will monitor how potential changes ...

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Japan Has Better Chance Of Seeing End To Deflation, Government Says

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Amid recent strong wage growth and broadening price hikes, Japan stands a better chance of finally breaking with the deflation that has "shackled" the nation for a quarter of a century, the government said Tuesday in its annual economic and fiscal policy report.
The government has y...

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Toyota Halts All Japan Assembly Plants Due To Glitch

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BBC
 
Japanese motor industry giant Toyota has suspended operations at all of its assembly plants in its home country due to a glitch in its production system.
The move has brought domestic production at the world's biggest-selling car maker to a standstill.
The malfunction has meant the firm has...

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Japanese Restaurants In Hong Kong Expect Dip In Business With Import Ban On Seafood From Japan

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CNN
 
One observer believes the supply shortage, however, will not lead to a spike in prices.
Some Japanese restaurants in Hong Kong are expecting a 30 per cent dip in business, after the city's import controls on seafood from 10 Japanese prefectures kicked in on Thursday (Aug 24). 
This comes as...

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Seibu Department Store in Tokyo May Face Strike from Thursday

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JAPAN NEWS
 
The labor union of Sogo & Seibu Co. is considering staging a strike at the company’s flagship Seibu Ikebukuro department store in Tokyo’s Toshima Ward as early as Thursday, it was learned Friday.
With the strike, the union hopes to request Sogo & Seibu to continue department store op...

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Beijing Seafood Dealers Shocked By Total Japan Import Ban

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Fish dealers at a Beijing market appear shocked after China banned all seafood imports from Japan in response to its release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.
With Chinese state media reports and social media...

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Aeon to Check Fukushima Fishery Products for Tritium

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JAPAN NEWS
 
Retail giant Aeon Co. said Tuesday that it will start voluntary inspections of fishery products from Fukushima Prefecture for tritium, a radioactive substance.
Aeon decided on the move because Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. is set to release into the Pacific Ocean treated...

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Approval of New Alzheimer’s Drug Could Be Turning Point for Dementia Treatment

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JAPAN NEWS
 
Expectations are growing that the health ministry’s approval of Lecanemab, a new drug for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, could be a turning point for the treatment of dementia.
The manufacture and sale of Lecanemab, jointly developed by Eisai Co. of Japan and Biogen Inc. of th...

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