JAPAN TODAY
 
Business sentiment among major Japanese companies was positive for the third successive quarter in October to December, led by a continued improvement in automobile-related industries, a government survey showed Monday.
The business sentiment index for companies with capital of ¥1 b...

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JAPAN NEWS
 
 
Japan’s Empress Masako turned 60 on Saturday as she hopes to take a step forward with a new feeling.
“I feel it is incredible,” Empress Masako said in a written comment released by the Imperial Household Agency.
She expressed her deep gratitude to all those who have helped her and ...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida plans to replace Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno amid media reports he received undeclared political funds, the Yomiuri newspaper said on Saturday, citing government and ruling party sources.
Kishida and his ruling Liberal Democratic Pa...

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YAHOO NEWS
 
Japan is ready to provide $4.5 billion for the recovery of Ukraine, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced during an online G7 meeting on Dec. 6.
Japan has already offered Ukraine support amounting to $1 billion, consisting of humanitarian aid and funds for recovery.
Kishida...

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Thursday that he decided to step down as chief of his faction in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, with its political funds scandal taking a further toll on his already flagging government.
The LDP has recently faced criticism amid allega...

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THE GUARDIAN
 
Internet references conflating the two films drew anger in Japan, which was twice attacked by nuclear weapons during the second world war
Audiences in Japan will finally get to see Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan’s hit biopic about the creator of the nuclear bomb – following critic...

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will host an online summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations later Wednesday as the Asian nation wraps up its role as this year's rotating chair, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy set to join them.
The G7 leaders are expecte...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The rankings for the most popular baby names of 2023 are in, with kanji that can be read as Aoi or Ao (碧) in first place for boys, and characters reading as Himari, Haruki, Hinata, Hina or Hiyori (陽葵) the top pick for girls.
The annual rankings by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance, rel...

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AP NEWS
 
U.S. and Japanese divers have discovered wreckage and the remains of five crew members from a U.S. Air Force Osprey aircraft that crashed last week off southwestern Japan, the Air Force announced Monday.
The CV-22 Osprey carrying eight American personnel crashed last Wednesday off Yakus...

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NHK
 
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang met Japanese Trade and Industry Minister Nishimura Yasutoshi in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Nishimura called generative AI an epoch-making project that will change industry, the economy, and society. He said Japan is pouring efforts into its development.
He asked N...

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