Tag: tokyo
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Economy pays tab for Japan Inc’s free lunch on overtime
Japanese workers put up with long hours and unpaid overtime under pressure from cost-saving companies, and figures from government, which wants more money in workers' pockets to boost consumer spending, appear to underestimate the problem. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is trying to enact labor reforms as part of his “Abenomics” plan to end decades of…
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Boeing taps GE exec to head airplanes unit as part of services push
Boeing Co on Monday named a senior General Electric Co executive to head its commercial airplanes division and announced a new services unit, in moves to capture more of the profitable market for parts and repairs after a jet is sold. The changes are “a big and important step” toward Boeing's goal of increasing annual…
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Global ad spend strengthens on U.S. demand: Zenith
Spending on global advertising will grow by a better-than-expected 4.4 percent this year, led by the United States, a leading forecaster said on Monday. Zenith, owned by France's Publicis , raised its global growth forecast for this year from the 4.1 percent it predicted in June, despite the uncertainty sparked by Britain's vote to leave…
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Global ad spend strengthens on U.S. demand: Zenith
Spending on global advertising will grow by a better-than-expected 4.4 percent this year, led by the United States, a leading forecaster said on Monday. Zenith, owned by France's Publicis , raised its global growth forecast for this year from the 4.1 percent it predicted in June, despite the uncertainty sparked by Britain's vote to leave…
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Japan’s Abe pledges $30 billion for Africa over next three years
By George Obulutsa NAIROBI (Reuters) – Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told African leaders on Saturday that his country will commit $30 billion in public and private support for infrastructure development on the continent. Resource-poor Japan has long been interested in tapping Africa's vast natural resources, even more so since dependence on oil and natural…
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Sumo-Tributes pour in for Chiyonofuji following wrestler’s death
Japan mourned the death of legendary sumo wrestler Chiyonofuji on Monday, a day after the 31-time tournament champion succumbed to pancreatic cancer in a Tokyo hospital at the age of 61. The muscular wrestler, who ran the Kokonoe stable, is third on the all-time list for the most championship wins behind Hakuho (37) and Taiho…
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Knife attacker in Japan kills 19 in their sleep at disabled center
By Elaine Lies and Kwiyeon Ha SAGAMIHARA, Japan (Reuters) – A knife-wielding man broke into a facility for the disabled in a small town near Tokyo early on Tuesday and killed 19 patients as they slept, authorities said, Japan's worst mass killing in decades. At least 25 other residents were wounded in the attack at…
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Shock as peaceful Japanese town wakes to ‘unthinkable’ disabled center horror
By Elaine Lies and Kwiyeon Ha SAGAMIHARA, Japan (Reuters) – Shock and bewilderment gripped neighbors of a disabled center in a town near Tokyo on Tuesday after a man stabbed and killed 19 residents in their sleep and wounded dozens more in Japan’s worst mass killing in decades. “This kind of thing doesn’t happen in…
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Early menopause may speed up aging in women: study
Women who enter menopause early may age faster than women in whom menopause arrives later, said a study Monday that could help pinpoint women at highest risk of age-related diseases. The findings could settle a long-standing debate, said Steve Horvath, a professor of human genetics and biostatistics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at…
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Japan knifing suspect had said he was willing to kill disabled-official
The suspect in a fatal stabbing spree in Japan on Tuesday had been hospitalized early this year after expressing a willingness to kill disabled people if the government approved, a city official said. Police in the town of Tsukui near Tokyo contacted the suspect, Satoshi Uematsu, and he was involuntarily committed to hospital on Feb.…