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Japan Should Push Back if Trump Takes 'Wrong' Economic Policies: Abe adviser

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JAPAN TODAY
 
 TOKYO — Japan should push back if President-elect Donald Trump bases trade and other economic policy on “wrong economics,” an adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told Reuters in an unusually direct expression of concern about potential protectionism.
Koichi Hamada, emeritus profes...

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ANA C-3PO Airplane Starts Domestic Flights in Japan in March

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
In 2015, ANA generated interest worldwide and a collective jaw-drop when it announced three Star Wars airplanes for its fleet.
Evidently the planes in Star Wars-themed exteriors are popular and proving a good promotional strategy, since ANA has returned with a new Boeing 777 with a...

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Women at Work / Firms Act to Up Awareness of Unfair Treatment

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Companies are increasing their efforts to raise employees’ awareness of so-called maternity harassment, the unfair treatment of women in the workplace who are pregnant or have children, under a revised law requiring them to take preventative measures against such harassment (see ...

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Kisenosato Clinches 1st Career Title

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Kisenosato has long been one of the top wrestlers in sumo, but he finally made it to the top of the mountain on Saturday at the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament.
The ozeki won his match, and later watched as yokozuna Hakuho lost to No. 10 maegashira Takanoiwa in the Day 14 finale, ...

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‘K’ Computer to Predict Torrential Rain

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
A project team including the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), the Meteorological Research Institute (MRI) and other institutions has succeeded in developing the basic technology to predict the coming of disastrous torrential rain in specific areas a...

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Mangaka Spreads His Wings from Forerunner’s Home

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
A young manga creator has published his first book while honing his skills in an apartment that used to house the studio of mangaka Fujio Akatsuka (1935-2008).
Gaku Kajikawa, 25, is the first resident to have a book published among the budding mangaka who have lived in the Shiuns...

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Carmakers Include Life-saving Features to Protect Pedestrians

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Automakers are improving car functions that protect pedestrians as a result of government safety evaluations aimed at protecting people outside of cars as well as inside them. The government aims to reduce fatal car accidents.
Such functions could become a key factor when people ...

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Matsuyama Heads into Final Round Trailing by Two Strokes

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JAPAN TIMES
 
KAPALUA, HAWAII – Justin Thomas, who as a skinny kid in Kentucky had to hit driver to reach a par 3 in junior golf, stood on the 14th tee at Kapalua trying to decide if 3-wood would be enough to drive the green on a par that was playing 287 yards up the hill.
His caddie thought driv...

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Publisher Ordered to Suspend Publication of Book on Nippon Kaigi

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO — A Tokyo court has ordered a publisher to suspend publication of a bestseller nonfiction book featuring links of a conservative lobby to a religious group, saying the book has some untrue information following a defamation claim.
Published last year, “Nippon Kaigi no Kenkyu” ...

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Koike Political Group to Field Some 40 Candidates in Tokyo Assembly Election

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JAPAN TIMES
 
 
Riding a wave of popularity, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike plans to field some 40 candidates from her political group in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election slated for the summer, a source said.
A first list of candidates from the group, Tomin First no Kai (Tokyoites First), will b...

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