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Investors Flock to Corporate, Local Government Bonds
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THE JAPAN NEWS
By Shota Mizuno and Masaomi Shimosato / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers
Corporate bonds and local government bonds have become a magnet for investors since the Bank of Japan decided in late January to adopt negative interest rates.
The bonds issued by private companies and local go...
By Shota Mizuno and Masaomi Shimosato / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers
Corporate bonds and local government bonds have become a magnet for investors since the Bank of Japan decided in late January to adopt negative interest rates.
The bonds issued by private companies and local go...
- March 5, 2016
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INUPATHY, World’s First Wearable Dog Emotion Visualizer
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JAPAN TRENDS
INUPATHY is the world’s first “dog mental visualizer”, allowing owners and dogs to have a better communication by showing your pet’s emotional state as a color on the light collar. It uses an algorithm to analyze heart rate patterns via sensors on the belt and expresses these throu...
INUPATHY is the world’s first “dog mental visualizer”, allowing owners and dogs to have a better communication by showing your pet’s emotional state as a color on the light collar. It uses an algorithm to analyze heart rate patterns via sensors on the belt and expresses these throu...
- March 5, 2016
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Geezer group JI-POP is here to promote tourism
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO —Move over, Arashi! Step aside, Exile! There’s a newer, older boy band in town. These guys creating a buzz.
JI-POP (爺-POP) is a more mature “boy” band brought together to help promote tourism in Kochi Prefecture. The “JI” in their name comes from the Japanese word “ojisan,” m...
TOKYO —Move over, Arashi! Step aside, Exile! There’s a newer, older boy band in town. These guys creating a buzz.
JI-POP (爺-POP) is a more mature “boy” band brought together to help promote tourism in Kochi Prefecture. The “JI” in their name comes from the Japanese word “ojisan,” m...
- March 3, 2016
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New Dress Collection By Up-and-coming Japanese Fashion Label, Inspired by Traditional Paper Patterns
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ROCKET NEWS
Made in Japan fashion brand yucasii tokyo releases a full line of dresses designed with Japanese paper prints in mind.
In 2014, Japanese fashion designer Yuka Yoshida began her yucasii fashion label, its namesake taken from yukashii, an older Japanese word meaning “high quality” and...
Made in Japan fashion brand yucasii tokyo releases a full line of dresses designed with Japanese paper prints in mind.
In 2014, Japanese fashion designer Yuka Yoshida began her yucasii fashion label, its namesake taken from yukashii, an older Japanese word meaning “high quality” and...
- March 3, 2016
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Japan's Cat Island Finds Purr-fect Solution To Food Crisis
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO — An army of cats ruling a remote Japanese island are licking their whiskers after a plea for food aid triggered a flood of donations from across the country.
More than 140 cats occupy the tiny island of Aoshima in southern Japan—outnumbering humans by eight to one—but when th...
TOKYO — An army of cats ruling a remote Japanese island are licking their whiskers after a plea for food aid triggered a flood of donations from across the country.
More than 140 cats occupy the tiny island of Aoshima in southern Japan—outnumbering humans by eight to one—but when th...
- March 2, 2016
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Seventh New Dinosaur Discovery Confirmed In Japan
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JAPAN TIMES
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FUKUI – A new kind of dinosaur has been confirmed in Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture, researchers said Friday, bringing the number of species discovered in Japan to seven.
According to fossil analysis, the new creature was a small theropod that had both primitive and derived feat...
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FUKUI – A new kind of dinosaur has been confirmed in Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture, researchers said Friday, bringing the number of species discovered in Japan to seven.
According to fossil analysis, the new creature was a small theropod that had both primitive and derived feat...
- February 27, 2016
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Intelligent Park Chair by Nissan Is Self-Parking Office Furniture
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JAPAN TRENDS
Do you work in a lazy office? Don’t worry. Even office chairs can now self-park.
Nissan has created the Intelligent Park Chair, inspired by its Intelligent Parking Assist system for cars.
The furniture uses four motion cameras on the walls and wi-fi. Just command the chairs with a ...
Do you work in a lazy office? Don’t worry. Even office chairs can now self-park.
Nissan has created the Intelligent Park Chair, inspired by its Intelligent Parking Assist system for cars.
The furniture uses four motion cameras on the walls and wi-fi. Just command the chairs with a ...
- February 26, 2016
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Japan's Olympic Soccer Teams To Train in Nuclear Clean-up Zone
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JAPAN TIMES
TOKYO — Japan’s Olympic soccer teams will train for the Tokyo 2020 Games at a complex currently being used as a base for thousands of workers cleaning up the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
The Japan Football Association (JFA) said Monday that the Japanese men’s and women’s teams ...
TOKYO — Japan’s Olympic soccer teams will train for the Tokyo 2020 Games at a complex currently being used as a base for thousands of workers cleaning up the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
The Japan Football Association (JFA) said Monday that the Japanese men’s and women’s teams ...
- February 25, 2016
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Media Freedom in Japan Anchors Away
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ECONOMIST
Criticism Of Government Is Being Airbrushed Out Of News Shows
FOR a decade, millions of Japanese have tuned in to watch Ichiro Furutachi, the salty presenter of a popular evening news show, TV Asahi’s “Hodo Station”. But next month Mr Furutachi will be gone. He is one of three heavywei...
Criticism Of Government Is Being Airbrushed Out Of News Shows
FOR a decade, millions of Japanese have tuned in to watch Ichiro Furutachi, the salty presenter of a popular evening news show, TV Asahi’s “Hodo Station”. But next month Mr Furutachi will be gone. He is one of three heavywei...
- February 24, 2016
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As Residents And Reactors Age, Fukui’s Fortunes Fade
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THE JAPAN TIMES
OSAKA – On a gray winter day late last month alternating between rain and sleet, many in the Sea of Japan town of Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, were feeling sunny. For the restart of Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Takahama plant No. 3 reactor means not only a return to nuclear power,...
OSAKA – On a gray winter day late last month alternating between rain and sleet, many in the Sea of Japan town of Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, were feeling sunny. For the restart of Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Takahama plant No. 3 reactor means not only a return to nuclear power,...
- February 23, 2016
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