| Dollar dive against yen dents exporters’profits |
| The Japan Times Mar.14,2008 |
The dollar’s sharp dive to a 12-year low against the yen Thursday raises the specter of reduced profits among major export-driven manufacturers in Japan,including Toyota Motor Corp.and Sony Corp.,analysts say.
This outlook casts a shadow over the economy as a whole,already bracing for fallout from the strained U.S.credit market and economic slowdown,which could send the dollar down further. |
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| JCG hints destroyer was at fault in collision |
| The Japan Times Feb.22,2008 |
| Suspicions mounted Thursday that the crew on watch aboard the Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer that ran over a fishing boat at 4:07 a.m. Tuesday failed to spot the trawler, and the Japan Coast Guard meanwhile suggested the warship may have been at fault in the collision. |
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| Hepatitis C bill offering aid,apology clears Diet |
| The Japan Times Jan.12,2008 |
The House of Councilors voted unanimously Friday to enact a law to give uniform relief to people who contracted hepatitis C from tainted blood products.
With the passage of the hepatitis C bill,about 1,000 people,including the 207 hepatitis C plaintiffs who sued the government and drugmakers,will receive an apology and compensation from the government. |
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| Nikkei opens ’08 trading with 4% plunge |
| The Japan Times Jan.5,2008 |
| Tokyo stocks plunged on the new year’s first day of trading Friday as the market was gripped by fears of a U.S. economic slowdown and surging oil prices, which surpassed $100 per barrel overnight in New York. |
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| Moriya implicates former defense chiefs Kyuma,Nukaga also ‘wined and dined’ |
| The Japan Times Nov.16,2007 |
| Former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya divulged Thursday that lawmakers Fumio Kyuma and Fukushiro Nukaga were among those wined and dined by a former executive of defense equipment trader Yamada Corp.now at the center of a widening corruption scandal. |
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| Nova seeks court protection from creditors |
| The Japan Times Oct.27,2007 |
| Language school giant Nova Corp.filed for bankruptcy Friday with the Osaka District Court and said it would temporarily close all its schools nationwide.The sudden move,which came just as labor authorities were about to question its executives,including its missing president, will leave about 300,000 students without lessons and 7,000 employees without jobs. |
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| 191 multiple refusals of pregnant women found |
| The Japan Times Sept.28,2007 |
| There were at least 191 cases where a pregnant woman being transported by ambulance was turned away by five or more hospitals between 2004 and 2006,a survey showed Thurs-day,underscoring the growing hardships of ambulance crews forced to scramble by the dearth of obstetricians in the country. |
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| Farm chief for week,Endo exits in scandal |
| The Japan Times Sept.4,2007 |
| Farm minister Takehiko Endo steps down over a money scandal just eight days after he was appointed,dealing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s week-old Cabinet a major blow. |
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| Ruling coalition suffers huge defeat |
| The Japan Times July 30,2007 |
| Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling coalition is thoroughly trounced in Sunday’s election, losing its majority in the House of Councilors. |
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| People fearing pension loss flock to info booths |
| The Japan Times Jun.10,2007 |
People concerned their pension account data may have been lost crowded consultation booths Saturday in Tokyo on the first weekend they were set up by the Social Insurance Agency.
A 58-year-old housewife who went to a booth near JR Shibuya Station just after 10 a.m.said she was able to confirm her data is intact.The data fiasco “would not have been permissible with a private-sector company,”she said,appearing relieved. |
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