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East Japan Railway Co. will tout its Shinkansen system in Kuala Lumpur to help win an order for a high-speed railway project that will link Malaysia and Singapore, informed sources have disclosed.
 
The JR East group is expected to run Shinkansen posters as early as next month on a fou...

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Japan's three largest mobile phone carriers said Sept. 10 that they will start sales of Apple Inc.'s new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus on Sept. 19.
The new, thinner models come with 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch Retina HD displays and include innovative te...

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Government officials and business leaders from Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations gathered Tuesday in Myanmar’s capital for their first talks on business promotion.
 
Participants hope to create demand in Southeast Asia in promising sectors such as the environment and medicine, ...

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday pledged full support for victims of last week’s massive landslides in Hiroshima, as he made his first visit since the disaster to the city.
 
The death toll from the mudslides, which buried dozens of homes, rose to 54, with a further 28 people missing as of Mon...

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Indonesia has revoked a four-year ban on beef and cattle imports from Japan, in a move to reduce dependence on Australian shipments and diversify its supply sources, an official in the Southeast Asian nation's agriculture ministry said on Friday.
 
The move follows the a...

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Looking in from without, the Japanese sense of humor is...an acquired taste. Like the language and culture, it's often highly contextual and quite literally can't be understood until you know what seems like 200-300 inside jokes. But, there's one area where Japanese humor re...

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More than 10 years after landslide disaster legislation took effect, 32 of the 47 prefectures have yet to finish the on-site research it orders, it was learned Sunday.
 
It’s estimated there are some 520,000 possibly dangerous areas, such as steep slopes and alluvial fans...

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The idea of living in a high-rise condo in downtown Tokyo makes for a nice daydream. Between the high cost of housing and the inescapable hustle and bustle of Japan’s capital, though, when it comes time to actually pick a home, many people decide they’d rather li...

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The government-funded Japan Atomic Energy Agency said Monday it has reached an agreement with the Indonesian National Nuclear Energy Agency to cooperate in the research and development of high-temperature gas reactors.
 
Indonesia aims to begin operation of such next-gen...

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After acquiring an ownership stake in American telecommunication company, Sprint, in July 2013, SoftBank finally started getting more serious about developing a partnership with Sprint.
 
SoftBank recently announced that they have developed a smartphone platform jointly with Sprint to reduce proc...

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