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Back to SearchBOJ May Consider Additional Rate Hike in Sept.
The Bank of Japan may consider an additional interest rate increase at its next policy meeting Sept. 17-18, following a hike in June, in response to …
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Japan April-June GDP Growth Seen at Annualized 2.1 Pct
Japan's seasonally adjusted gross domestic product in April-June is projected to have grown a real 2.1pctfrom the previous quarter on an annualized b…
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Japan Shares Data on Foreigners Facing Deportation with Local Govts
Japan's Immigration Services Agency has started sharing personal information on foreign nationals subject to deportation proceedings with local gover…
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Japan PM Takaichi to Forgo Foreign Trips This Summer
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will refrain from making overseas trips this summer, except possibly to New York for a U.N. General Assembly s…
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Takaichi Urges Oman to Consult Hormuz-Using Countries
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi urged Omani Sultan Haitham bin Tariq on Monday to engage in close consultations with the international communi…
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Western Japan Fireworks Event Abruptly Canceled
The organizers of a large fireworks festival planned for Aug. 22 in three cities in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, have announced the event's cance…
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Japan Mulls Use of Domestic AI in SDF Command System
The Japanese government has begun considering incorporating domestically developed artificial intelligence into the Self-Defense Forces' command and …
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Rakuten Group Logs 1st Jan.-June Operating Profit in 7 Yrs
Major Japanese e-commerce and mobile phone operator Rakuten Group Inc. on Monday posted its first January-June consolidated operating profit in seven…
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Japan to Apply Reconstruction Aid Law to All of Kumamoto
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Monday that her government is preparing to apply the law on postdisaster livelihood reconstruction aid to…
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Price Parity Growing in Food Delivery in Japan
Food delivery service providers in Japan are increasingly allowing customers to order items at prices equivalent to those in physical stores, aiming …
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