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Foreign buyers turn up the heat on competition for Japan's used cars
YOKOHAMA -- Foreign buyers are flooding Japan's used-car market, seeing opportunity in the yen's historic weakness. Competition with Japanese buyers f
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Japan's real wages in July rise 2.4% on year, up for 7th straight month
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's real wages in July rose 2.4 percent from a year earlier, increasing for the seventh straight month, due to higher summer bonu
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If Japan is behind the bond market’s ruckus, then good
Japan's economy, which had ventured far from the status quo, is now normalizing, with the BOJ raising policy rates and reducing its purchases of sovereign bonds....
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Naomi Osaka takes major title wait in stride after U.S. Open exit
The Japanese player won the last of her four major titles in 2021 before stepping away from the sport and giving birth to her daughter.
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Tanaka named ninth recipient of Fashion Prize of Tokyo - FashionNetwork
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Hayama in Japan's Kanagawa Pref. tops residential satisfaction survey again
YOKOHAMA -- The town of Hayama in eastern Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture has been ranked the most desirable place to continue living in the Tokyo metropo
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Train suspensions caused by heavy rain affect over 140,000 in Tokyo area
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Train suspensions caused by heavy rain affected more than 140,000 people in the Tokyo metropolitan area, railway operators said Monda
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Japan's new language support and 30-kph speed limit: Our 5 most-read stories from last week
We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between August 29 and September 6. The firs
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Former head of Keizai Doyukai denounces Japan’s notion of being ‘presumed guilty’
The former Keizai Doyukai chair has criticized Japan's social trend of labeling people suspected of wrongdoing as guilty before the facts are known.
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China hits Japan with anti-dumping measures on chip chemical
Companies importing Japanese dichlorosilane are required to provide cash deposits of up to 99.2% from Tuesday, Beijing's Commerce Ministry said.
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Yen reclaims ¥153 to the dollar and continues to rally
Japan's currency has not been this strong since February.
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Japan’s faster GDP, wage growth support BOJ interest-rate hike
The economy grew at a faster clip in the second quarter than initially estimated while wages jumped the most in nearly three decades in July.
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Japan’s Preferred Networks seeks IPO to keep up in AI chip race
The Tokyo-based outfit is stepping up efforts to custom-design semiconductors tailored to run AI models.
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How to Use a Sento or Onsen in Japan
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Sapporo Breweries moving some production to U.S. from Canada amid tariff row
The Japanese brewer, which makes the top-selling Asian beer in the U.S., is also considering adding manufacturing capacity in the western U.S.
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Attempted murder survivor urges abolition of statute of limitations on such cases
Japan abolished the statute of limitations for heinous crimes, such as murder, in 2010, but the changes do not cover attempted murder.
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As Xi-Trump summit looms, Takaichi eyes meeting with U.S. president
The move comes as differences between Tokyo and Washington have emerged over the International Criminal Court and Japan's fiscal policy.
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Japan’s wages grow most since 1997, keeping BOJ on rate-hike path
Nominal pay climbed 4.7% in July from a year earlier, following a revised 4% increase in June, the labor ministry has reported.
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Easy Japanese news in translation: Mitsubishi Motors revives Pajero after 7 years
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. unveiled its new Pajero on September 2. The company stopped producing the Pajero in Japan in 2019, and the model is making a c
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Japanese artist Okazaki wins Emmy for 'Star Wars' animation
LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) -- Japanese manga artist and illustrator Takashi Okazaki won an Emmy Award on Sunday for his work on a "Star Wars" animated series
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Only 21 municipalities in Japan set to join 1st-year vaccine digitization rollout
TOKYO -- Only 21 municipalities across Japan are expected to participate in the first-year rollout of a digital system for vaccination administration,
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Editorial: Japan should not shut door on permanent residents
Japan's Immigration Services Agency has announced plans to revise its guidelines for granting permanent residence, tightening the requirements. Many f
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PM Takaichi to skip Japan-held Asian Games opening ceremony: gov't official
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is expected to skip the opening ceremony for the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games that will be held in
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Japan PM arranging to reshuffle Cabinet, ruling party execs Sept. 16
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is making arrangements to reshuffle her Cabinet and the executive lineup of her ruling Liberal
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'Don't disappear': Tokyo aquarium's X posts gain attention amid rise in child suicides
TOKYO -- A series of posts reaching out to young people amid an increase in child suicides, published Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 on the official X account of
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Once-conjoined Vietnam twin to visit Japan's Minamata disease areas
KAGOSHIMA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Nguyen Duc, a Vietnamese man born as a conjoined twin apparently due to the aftereffects of the defoliant Agent Orange use
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Japan foreign reserve assets fall by record 6% after interventions
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's foreign reserve assets in August fell $79.58 billion, or 6.18 percent, from the previous month to $1.21 trillion, marking the
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Japan library that welcomes conversations a hit with locals
AKASHI, Hyogo -- Just 17 months after opening, a municipal library in this west Japan city has become a popular gathering place for residents by chall
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Southwest Japan city taps popular anime 'Zombie Land Saga' to boost tourism
SAGA -- The Saga Municipal Government announced a proposed supplementary budget including a tourism spending promotion project being carried out in co
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More than Half of Japanese Companies Still Have No Female Executives
A survey in Japan found that more than half of companies still have no female executives, and over 40% have no women in management at all.