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Kishida push for change to constitution opposed
China Daily· 21 hours agoDespite strong opposition at home and abroad, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has proposed ...
Cash-based Japan issues first new bills in two decades, designed against counterfeiting
Houston Chronicle· 18 hours agoJapan issued its first new banknotes in two decades Wednesday, yen packed with 3-D hologram...
Japan issues first new banknotes in 20 years
Al Jazeera· 16 hours agoJapan has issued its first new banknotes in two decades, with the redesigned bills featuring 3D holograms intended to thwart counterfeiters. Japanese ...
Japan rolls out new banknotes for the first time since 2004, but only 30% of the country’s many...
Fortune· 19 hours agoThe new ¥10,000 bills ($62) feature a portrait of Eiichi Shibusawa, seen as the father of Japanese capitalism. While the move aimed at keeping counterfeiters and tax dodgers ...
Japanese firms deliver biggest pay hikes in 33 years, union survey shows By Reuters
Investing.com· 16 hours agoTOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese companies delivered the biggest wage hikes in three decades this year, the...
Japan Firms Have Offered 5.10% Pay Rise, Biggest in 33 Years
US News & World Report· 16 hours agoJapanese firms have agreed to raise monthly pay by 5.10% on average this year, the biggest in 33 years, the country's largest union group Rengo said on Wednesday, wrapping ...
High-tech cash: Japan launches banknotes with hologram portraits
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 23 hours agoThe notes use printed patterns to generate holograms of the portraits facing different directions,...
US Air Force member charged with kidnapping and raping Japanese schoolgirl
CNN via AOL· 7 days agoJapanese prosecutors have charged a US Air Force member with allegedly kidnapping and raping an...
Tokyo Set to Elect Governor in Race Key to Kishida’s Fortunes
Bloomberg· 2 days agoTokyo will decide this weekend whether to re-elect a governor supported by Prime Minister Fumio ...
Japan's Supreme Court orders government to pay damages to victims of forced sterilization
United Press International via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoA group of Japanese men and women subjected to forced sterilization decades ago won the right to...