Economy
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Japanese Tea Companies Eye Overseas Markets As Domestic Consumption Declines
The Japanese tea industry is focusing on expanding overseas sales channels due to a decline in domes...
February 6, 2023
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New System to Pay 20% More for Solar Power from Japan Businesses’ Rooftops
The economy ministry plans to introduce a system in which electric power generated by solar panels o...
February 5, 2023
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Japan Farm Exports Hit Record High for 10th Straight Year
TOKYO — Japan’s exports of agricultural, forestry and fishery products hit a record high for the 10t...
February 3, 2023
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Egg Wholesale Prices Hit 37-year High in Tokyo
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Egg wholesale prices hit a 37-year high in the Tokyo area on Tuesday due to a s...
February 1, 2023
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Tokyo Booms for Shareholder-Relations Advisers as Activists Raise Pressure
TOKYO, Feb 1 (Reuters) - A rising wave of shareholder activism has turned Tokyo into a growth market...
February 1, 2023
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Japan Job-Openings Ratio Logs 1st Rise in 4 Years in 2022
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The average ratio of effective job openings to seekers in Japan rose for the fi...
January 31, 2023
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Foreign Workers Rise to Record 1.82 Mil.
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The number of foreign workers in Japan at the end of October 2022 rose 5.5% fro...
January 28, 2023
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Toyoda’s Successor Set to Accelerate Automaker’s Transformation into ‘Mobility Company’
The appointment of Koji Sato as Toyota Motor Corp.’s new president represents a key step in the auto...
January 27, 2023
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Japan’s Producer Prices Rise 1.5% in Dec.
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan’s services producer prices in December rose 1.5% from a year before, up f...
January 27, 2023
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Japan Electronics Union to Seek Pay Scale Hike of ¥7,000 or More
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The umbrella body for labor unions at Japanese electronics makers said Thursday...
January 26, 2023
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Labor, Management Agree Wage Hikes Necessary amid Inflation
Amid rapidly rising prices, this year’s shunto spring wage negotiations are getting into full swing....
January 26, 2023
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Japan Department Store Sales Up 13 % in 2022
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japanese department store sales in 2022 grew 13.1% from the previous year on a ...
January 25, 2023
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Event to Promote Japanese Rice Held in London
LONDON (Jiji Press) — Japan’s agriculture ministry held an event to promote Japanese rice in London ...
January 25, 2023
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BOJ Injects ¥1 trillion into Money Market to Curb Interest Rates
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Bank of Japan on Monday conducted a money market operation to supply ¥1 tri...
January 24, 2023
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Home Video Game Market Sees Turnaround in 2022
Domestic sales of home video games bucked a two-year slide last year, despite shortages of semicondu...
January 24, 2023
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