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Japan called on the United States to join forces in stopping China from taking market-distorting investment practices in a bilateral finance leaders' meeting, a senior Japanese finance ministry official said on Thursday. During the meeting with his U.S ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Food companies are watching with keen interest as researchers in Japan delve into the nuts and bolts of sensations like "crispness" and "springiness." Their findings are expected to lead to new and more appetizing products. Taste, aroma and ... ( read original story ...)

But many of the engineers interviewed by Nikkei complained that Japanese executives do not understand what the semiconductor business is all about. These engineers think this lack of aptitude led to poor and slow decision-making when it came to research ... ( read original story ...)

Nikkei Centre has a truckload of books for you. The centre is hosting a book sale on June 8 to 9. Don’t miss this chance to buy hard-to-find Japanese-language books in Vancouver. The centre has over 40,000 used Japanese novels, manga, and children’s ... ( read original story ...)

Aso said while Japan was undecided on whether to file a challenge to the ... growth through free and fair trade,” Aso said on Friday after attending the G7 finance leaders’ gathering. Fears of a global trade war have overshadowed the G7 talks in ... ( read original story ...)

WHISTLER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Friday he had told his G7 counterparts the group of advanced economies should send a message that it continues to watch market moves carefully. Aso also said while Japan was ... ( read original story ...)

Japan had 946,060 births in 2017 ... Babies born to foreign mothers increased 25% to 185,000 in 2017, accounting for nearly a quarter of all births. Nikkei staff writers Jun Ishikawa in Berlin and Manabu Morimoto in Brussels contributed to this report. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, May 31 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei share average on Thursday bounced back from a six-week low as worries over Italy’s political crisis receded. The Nikkei rose 0.83 percent to 22,201.82. On Wednesday, it hit 21,931.65, the lowest since April 18. ( read original story ...)

The U.S. president's newly-floated 25% tariff on imported autos has industry executives from Japan to Germany reconsidering their American consumer calculus. Sure, Nissan's move, reported by Nikkei on Tuesday, seems partly about reducing inventories and ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, June 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is holding a campaign to promote Tokyo's charms overseas and also in a broad scope in Russia using the logo and slogan "Tokyo Tokyo Old meets New." (Logo: https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/img ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA – Osaka prosecutors decided Thursday not to indict former top Finance Ministry official Nobuhisa Sagawa for allegedly falsifying documents on a murky land sale that has sparked allegations of cronyism by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration. ( read original story ...)

The Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office decided not to indict Finance Ministry officials for altering their approved documents on the sale of state-owned land to school operator Moritomo Gakuen. The officials include Nobuhisa Sagawa, 60, former ... ( read original story ...)

WHISTLER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Japan called on the United States to join forces in stopping China from taking market-distorting investment practices in a bilateral finance leaders' meeting, a senior Japanese finance ministry official said on Thursday. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Tobacco Inc (2914.T) is set to slash prices on its heated tobacco products early next week after a similar move by bigger rival Philip Morris International Inc (PM.N), signalling increased competition in Japan's nascent market for ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA (Kyodo) -- Osaka prosecutors decided Thursday not to indict former top Finance Ministry official Nobuhisa Sagawa for allegedly falsifying documents on a murky land sale that has sparked allegations of cronyism by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ... ( read original story ...)

Nikkei reported that Japan is growing frustrated by government assistance in China and South Korea to their ailing shipbuilding industries, with Prime Minister Mr Shinzo Abe even broaching the issue with his counterparts at a trilateral summit earlier this ... ( read original story ...)