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Japan to Support Vietnam's Crude Oil Procurement

  • Category:Event
NIPPON
 
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Vietnamese counterpart, Le Minh Hung, agreed Saturday to position economic security cooperation as a pillar of their countries' bilateral relations, including Japan's public-private support for Vietnam's crude oil procurement.
Japan will pro...

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M5.7 Earthquake Jolts Western Japan, No Tsunami Warning Issued

  • Category:Nature
KYODO NEWS
 
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 jolted western Japan on Saturday, but no tsunami warning was issued, the country's weather agency said.
The quake, which struck at 6:28 p.m., registered 4 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in the prefectures of Mie, Nara an...

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Japan Allows Itself Time Off During The “Golden Week”

  • Category:Festival
ARAB NEWS
 
The end of April and beginning of May is a time when Japanese people can enjoy some free time and relax thanks to a succession of national holidays that, grouped together, are called Golden Week.
April 29 (Showa Day), May 3 (Constitution Memorial Day), May 4 (Greenery Day) and May 5 (...

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Japan's Koizumi to Visit S. Korea for Defense Talks in June

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NIPPON
 
Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi is planning to visit South Korea in late June to hold talks with his South Korean counterpart, Ahn Gyu-back, it was learned Thursday.
This will be Koizumi's first visit to South Korea since he assumed his post last October. When Ahn visited Japa...

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Middle East Conflict Dampens Japan Industrial Output In March

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan's industrial output in March edged down 0.5 percent from the previous month, pressured by the Middle East conflict that affected output of chemical products due to disruptions in imports of their raw materials, government data showed Thursday.
The decrease followed an upwardly ...

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Dragon Diplomacy: Indonesia Lends Komodo Lizard Pair To Japan Zoo

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CNA
 
Animal rights group PETA has expressed concern that any dragon offspring born in Japan will be "condemned to a lifetime of confinement".
Indonesia will lend a breeding pair of endangered Komodo dragons to Japan under an agreement signed on Wednesday (Apr 29) between zoos from the two countr...

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Japan PM Vows All-Out Efforts Toward Sustained Pay Hikes At May Day Event

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KYODO NEWS
 
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Wednesday her government will do its utmost to help ensure continued wage hikes as the head of the country's umbrella group for labor unions underscored the need for increased pay amid inflation.
Takaichi attended a May Day gathering in Tokyo's Shib...

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Japan Seeks to Play Active Role at NPT Review Meeting

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NIPPON
 
Japan will seek to play an active role in finding common ground between nuclear and nonnuclear states at a review conference for the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which opened Monday, Japanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs Ayano Kunimitsu said Tuesday.
Kunimitsu, who took part in...

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Japan Considers Making Language Programs A Factor In Residency Screenings

  • Category:Tourism
JAPAN TIMES
 
The government is considering creating programs teaching Japanese language, culture and social rules to foreign nationals and making attendance of the programs a factor in residency screenings, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
The government plans to begin the progr...

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Japan Airlines Trials Humanoid Robots As Ground Handlers

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BBC
 
Japan Airlines (JAL) will start using humanoid robots in ground handling tasks at Tokyo's Haneda airport from May, in a two-year trial it said is aimed at easing employees' workload.
For a start, the Chinese-made robots will be deployed to load and unload cargo containers, JAL and GMO AI & ...

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