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CompaniesJapanese automakers likely to cut production due to Renesas plant fire
Shipment volumes from Renesas Electronics Corp.’s Naka plant are unlikely to return to normal until ...
April 3, 2021
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Japan In FocusOita: Farmers grow sugarcane on abandoned paddies to feed elephants at Oita zoo
BEPPU, Oita — Sugarcane is being grown in abandoned rice fields to feed Asian elephants at a local z...
April 3, 2021
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Japan In FocusOsaka: YouTube star wombats wow visitors to zoo
IKEDA, Osaka — Visitors clamored to snap a picture of a wombat as he munched away on grass at his ho...
April 3, 2021
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General NewsSurvey: Childcare applications down in 70% of high-demand municipalities
Applications for childcare services fell in 70% of the highest-demand municipalities in the new scho...
April 2, 2021
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Yomiuri EditorialGovt must make every possible effort to prevent fourth wave of infections
Efforts to stop a fourth wave of novel coronavirus infections are at a critical juncture. Infections...
April 2, 2021
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CompaniesMHI Changing Tack 3/ Founding shipbuilding business plots new course
On April 29, 2016, then Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) President Shunichi Miyanaga was in Ha...
April 2, 2021
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Yomiuri Editorial
To help get economy back on track, companies should invest if they can
The diffusion index of the Bank of Japan’s Tankan quarterly economic survey for March shows that bus...
April 2, 2021
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Coronavirus
Expert says Suga hurt own image by sending mixed signals on COVID
With Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga having been in office for half a year, The Yomiuri Shimbun interv...
April 2, 2021
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MusicTokyo-Rickshaw offers songs for the soul alongside rickshaw rides
A group of rickshaw men not only offer their hospitality to tourists, they also have a hit single th...
April 2, 2021
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CompaniesHermes finally opens store in Omotesando, Tokyo
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, it is becoming the norm in the fashion industry for unprofitable shop...
April 2, 2021
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MusicBach institute to open Toyama branch
TOYAMA — The Leipzig Bach Archive, a German research institute that organizes music festivals and ma...
April 1, 2021
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Outside Contributors
Career success: Differing self-definitions by workers across countries
The last time I worked in an American office I was 19 years old, earning an hourly wage to do a vari...
April 1, 2021
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Political Series
Suga-style politics 7 / Suga faces intraparty concerns, voter criticism
This is the seventh installment in a series reviewing the first six months of Prime Minister Yoshihi...
April 1, 2021
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Crime & Courts
Culture agency to tackle fake art
In response to the mass circulation of counterfeit prints based on paintings by nihonga master Ikuo ...
April 1, 2021
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CompaniesPassenger jet failure caused by ‘do it all ourselves’ approach
In January, silence fell at a plant in Tobishima, Aichi Prefecture, which was supposed to assemble t...
April 1, 2021