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Prices of nearly 5,000 items set to rise in Japan in September
2+ hour, 12+ min ago (709+ words) The prices of 4,923 food and beverage items in Japan are set to rise in September, up more than threefold from a year earlier and the most for a month in more than three years, a research firm's survey showed Monday....
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Tokyo firm to set starting salary for new graduates at ¥1 mil per month
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (225+ words) A Tokyo-based real estate developer will offer new hires joining in April next year a monthly salary of 1 million yen in a bid to recruit talent with expertise in entrepreneurship and artificial intelligence. The amount offered by Kasumigaseki Capital Co…...
Japan's July jobless rate falls to 2.4%; 1st improvement in 3 months
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (207+ words) Japan's unemployment rate fell to 2.4 percent in July from 2.5 percent in the previous month, improving for the first time in three months, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said Friday. The number of people with jobs was down 0.2 percent…...
Bessent warns unstable yen could lead to higher U.S. interest rates
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (271+ words) U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday disclosed a letter justifying last month's coordinated market intervention by the United States and Japan to prop up the yen, saying an unstable currency could lead to higher borrowing costs for Americans. "Japan is…...
July duty-free shoppers at Japan department stores up for 1st time in 9 months
5+ day, 12+ hour ago (447+ words) Department stores in Japan saw a 3.0 percent increase in duty-free shoppers in July from a year earlier to roughly 491,000, the first increase in nine months, industry data showed Tuesday. The growth came as shoppers from countries and territories including Taiwan,…...
Deal reached to expand bluefin tuna fishing quotas as sought by Japan
1+ week, 5+ day ago (513+ words) An international conference on sustainable management of Pacific bluefin tuna reached an agreement Tuesday to expand catch quotas for larger fish as sought by Japan, Japanese government sources said. The online talks, held behind closed doors, were an unusual resumption…...
Fukushima fully resumes Taiwan peach exports for 1st time since disaster
1+ week, 6+ day ago (275+ words) Around 4.5 tons of peaches from Fukushima, one of the country's key producers, are scheduled to be shipped to Taiwan by Sept 11, farm cooperatives and prefectural authorities said, following the lifting of import restrictions on Japanese food products last November. Before…...
Japan bankruptcies in July top 1,000 for 2nd straight month
2+ week, 6+ day ago (339+ words) Corporate bankruptcies in Japan rose 6.9 percent from a year earlier to 1,028 in July, topping 1,000 for the second straight month as labor shortages and rising prices continued to squeeze smaller businesses, a credit research company said Monday. Total liabilities jumped 41.4 percent…...
U.S. filings for jobless benefits rise to 197,000, but layoffs remain historically low
1+ mon, 11+ hour ago (481+ words) The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week but layoffs remain in the historically healthy range of the past few years. U.S. filings for jobless aid in the week ending July 25 rose by 9,000 to 197,000, the Labor Department reported…...