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Back to SearchFormer Top Japan Bureaucrat Futahashi Dies at 84
Masahiro Futahashi, who served as deputy chief cabinet secretary for administrative affairs under former prime ministers Junichiro Koizumi and Yasuo …
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Japan Opposition CRA Proposes Merger Talks with CDP, Komeito
Junya Ogawa, leader of Japan's main opposition Centrist Reform Alliance, on Friday urged the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Komeito to …
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Nikkei Stock Average Ends at Fresh Record High
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average rose 196.57 points, or 0.27 pct, to 71,250.06 in Tokyo trading on Friday, hitting a record closing high fo…
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Life-Sentenced Japanese Man Likely to Be Acquitted after Death
Japanese public prosecutors said Friday that they will not seek to prove guilt in a retrial of a man who received a life term for a 1984 robbery-murd…
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Japan Postal Privatization Revision Clears Diet
The Diet, Japan's parliament, on Friday enacted a bill to revise the postal privatization and related laws, paving the way for subsidies to preserve …
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Japan Ratifies ACSAs with Philippines, Others
The Diet, Japan's parliament, on Friday ratified acquisition and cross-servicing agreements with the Philippines, the Netherlands and New Zealand.
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Japan Lower House Passes Referendum Reform Bill
Japan's House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, the country's parliament, passed a bill to revise the law on national referendums on…
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Japan Extends SDF Dispatch to South Sudan by 1 Year
The Japanese government Friday decided to extend the deployment of Self-Defense Forces personnel to the headquarters of the U.N. Mission in South Sud…
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BOJ Policymaker Up for Multiple Rate Hikes: April Minutes
A member of the Bank of Japan Policy Board backed the idea of raising interest rates every few months at their meeting in April, it was learned Frida…
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Fire at Tokyo Elementary School Injures 10
A fire burned part of an elementary school in a densely populated area of Tokyo on Friday, leaving 10 people, mainly children, injured.
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