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Japan ranks 104th in gender equality rankings

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THEJAPANNEWS
Japan came in 104th in the World Economic Forum’s gender equality rankings for 2014, up from 105th the previous year but still far behind other major industrialized nations, the Geneva-based group said Tuesday.
 
Iceland ranked top for the sixth straight year.
 
The WEF, organizer of...

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Japan to create cabinet post for Tokyo Olympics

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JAPANTODAY
Japan is planning to create a new cabinet post to oversee the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the education minister said Tuesday.
 
The cabinet agreed to introduce legislation that would add a new minister in charge of preparations for the 2020 Summer Games, according to Hakubun Shimomura, the m...

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Fujifilm's Ebola drug underscores new face of Japan Inc

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JAPANTODAY
Fujifilm’s potential as a major player in the fight against the Ebola virus underscores a move by some of Japan’s best-known firms to reinvent their businesses as demand for traditional products falls away.
 
Last week, the company once synonymous with cameras and photo booths said it ...

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Why are so many of the world’s oldest companies in Japan?

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SLATE
The oldest running hotel in operation is not in Paris or London or Rome. It is, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, in Yamanashi, Japan: a hot-spring hotel called Nisiyama Onsen Keiunkan, which has existed since the year 705. The second-oldest is another Japanese hot-springs ho...

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Japan's gotta have baseball back in the Olympics! Tokyo 2020 squeeze play?

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CSMONITOR
With 12 Japanese MLB players having appeared in the World Series – Nori Aoki of the Kansas City Royals is the latest – avid baseball fans across East Asia want the sport restored after two Olympic shutouts.
 
Japanese baseball fans are some of the world’s most diehard. Cities across Jap...

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Nestle Japan hiring 1000 robots

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SMH
Food giant Nestle is planning to hire 1000 robots as sales clerks at stores across Japan.
The first batch of the chatty humanoid called Pepper will report to work by the end of the year at outlets that sell coffee capsules and home espresso machines.
"From December, they will start selling co...

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Japan IT Week Autumn 2014

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BUSINESSWIRE
Japan IT Week Autumn is the autumn edition of Japan IT Week Spring http://www.japan-it.jp/en/, known as Japan’s largest show for IT and the world’s largest for software and apps. The show will be composed of 7 independent exhibitions gathering the latest IT technologies and solutions...

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2,860 Public Schools in Japan at Risk from Massive Tsunami

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JIJI
As many as 2,860 public schools in Japan are at risk of being affected by a tsunami of a magnitude estimated as possible, a government survey revealed Tuesday.
They included 1,442 elementary schools and 671 junior high schools, according to the survey conducted by the education ministry in M...

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Canada falls to Japan in international women's friendly

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CBC
Second-half substitute Aya Sameshima scored in stoppage time after Sophie Schmidt had tied it late as Japan defeated Canada 3-2 on Tuesday in a wild international women's soccer friendly.
 
Sameshima jumped on a mistake in defence and moved in alone on Canadian goalkeeper Stephanie Labbe befo...

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Japan nuclear plant gets approval to restart, over three years after Fukushima

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REUTERS
A town in southwest Japan became the first to approve the restart of a nuclear power station on Tuesday, a step forward in Japan's fraught process of reviving an industry left idled by the Fukushima catastrophe in 2011.
 
Satsumasendai, a town of 100,000 that hosts the two-reactor Kyushu ...

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