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Battledores depict the year's newsmakers
Battledores decorated with this year's newsmakers are unveiled in an annual year-end event in Tokyo.
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SoftBank's Son explains $50b US investment
Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank, says he decided to invest $50 billion in the US because President-elect Donald Trump wil...
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Corporate ritual gets extreme makeover
An ambitious online shoe store in central Japan gives a stale corporate ritual a makeover by greeting recruits with a zi...
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Lower house passes casino bill
A bill to legalize casinos for the first time in Japan passes the Lower House of parliament.
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Japan's Otani could move to MLB in 2018
Japanese baseball superstar Shohei Otani renews his contract with a reported Major League posting option in 2018.
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Abe's Pearl Harbor visit not to apologize: spokesman
Japan's top spokesman says Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's upcoming Pearl Harbor visit is to pray for the war dead, not to a...
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Luxury train Shikishima unveiled
Japan East Railway Company unveils its luxury, sleeper car train the Train Suite Shiki-shima.
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Abe, Obama to visit Pearl Harbor
Japan's Shinzo Abe will become the first sitting prime minister to visit Pearl Harbor in a trip to Hawaii December 26-27...
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Laughing in a bumper year
Residents of a city in southwestern laugh themselves seriously silly in an ancient Shinto rite to laugh off the bad and ...
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