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Keidanren urges government to boost number of foreign workers
The Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, is calling on the government to take measures to allow more foreign nationals to work in Japan in fields involving research and development as well as to ease labor shortages. In its policy proposal made Monday, the nation’s biggest business lobby specifically sought relaxed ...
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AIG, Cyberdyne to develop insurance plans to cover wearable robots
U.S.-affiliated insurance firm AIG Japan Holdings K.K. and wearable robot maker Cyberdyne Inc. have formed a business alliance in the nonlife insurance business. Under the tie-up deal announced Monday, the unit of New York-based American International Group Inc. and Cyberdyne will develop and sell nonlife insurance products for users of ...
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Tokyo stocks end higher after erasing quake-caused losses
Stocks recouped earlier losses and closed higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Tuesday, as investors were relieved by the lack of major damage from a powerful earthquake in northeastern Japan the same day. The 225-issue Nikkei average gained 56.92 points, or 0.31 percent, to close at 18,162.94, hitting its highest ...
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Subaru loses its cool over hot SUVs
Subaru, a tiny, conservative Japanese brand, is about to build a big, brash, American-style SUV. It’s either an exercise in kaizen — slow, steady improvement — or a complete loss of cool. To be sure, the market is there. Americans are ditching their sedans for SUVs at a dizzying pace. ...
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Bluefin tuna catch quota for 2017 in western Atlantic to remain unchanged
An international conservation group has set the 2017 catch quota of bluefin tuna in the western Atlantic Ocean at 2,000 tons, unchanged from the current level, Japan’s Fisheries Agency said Tuesday. Japan’s current allocation of about 346 tons will be maintained under the decision made at the annual weeklong meeting ...
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Retailer hopes PET-bottled rice will revive Japan’s consumption of the staple
A retailer in northern Japan has come up with a product it hopes will help turn around the country’s declining appetite for rice: several varieties of the staple sold in PET bottles to appeal to young people. More than 30 brands are on offer, including the popular Hitomebore and Akitakomachi ...
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Trump vows to quit TPP ‘on day one’
Donald Trump said Monday he would move to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal the day he takes office, in line with a central campaign pledge. “I’ve asked my transition team to develop a list of executive actions we can take on day one to restore our ...
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Canada to end coal power by 2030
Canada will shutter its coal-fired power plants by 2030 as part of its strategy to cut greenhouse gas emission under the Paris climate accord, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna announced Monday. The plants, located in four provinces, produce about 10 percent of Canada’s total CO2 emissions, and closing them will remove ...
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Trump vow to bring back coal, ditch pollution curbs brings guarded hope to miners
The hard-eyed view along the Tug Fork River in West Virginia coal country is that President-elect Donald Trump has something to prove: that he’ll help bring back Appalachian mining, as he promised time and again on the campaign trail. Nobody thinks he can revive it entirely — not economists, not ...
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17 pipeline protesters taken to hospitals after being hosed in freezing weather
Authorities on Monday defended their decision to douse protesters with water during a skirmish in subfreezing weather near the Dakota Access oil pipeline, and organizers said at least 17 protesters were taken to the hospital — including some who were treated for hypothermia. Protesters trying to push past a long-blocked ...