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Japan's nuclear re-start bogged down in safety checks and paperwork
2014-02-09 05:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Hundreds of technicians and engineers are camped out in Tokyo hotels trying to revive Japan's nuclear industry, shut down in the wake of the Fukushima disaster almost three years ago. It's proving a hard slog. A new, more independent regulator is in place, asking difficult questions and seeking to impose tougher safety rules on powerful utilities that were largely their own masters for the past 50 years. The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) was created in 2012 and set new safety guidelines...
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Japan's unions ask for wage hikes on back of Abenomics stimulus
2014-02-07 11:14:49| Steel - Topix.net
A trade union has demanded Japan's largest steelmaker, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp, hike basic wages for the first time in 14 years and share the profits generated by the government's "Abenomics" stimulus policies.
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Japan's January domestic auto sales rise 28%
2014-02-03 10:41:35| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Japan's domestic sales of new cars, trucks and buses jumped 27.5% from a year earlier in January, rising for the fifth straight months on a rush of purchasing ahead of a sales tax increase in April.
VIDEO: Japan's deficit in 'three easy graphs'
2014-01-27 14:00:03| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The BBC's Tokyo correspondent explains Japan's massive trade deficit with the aid of "three easy graphs".
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Japan's Kubota eyes U.S. fields with larger tractors
2014-01-22 13:00:52| Steel - Topix.net
Japan's Kubota Corp plans to sell powerful, large tractors in North America and Europe next year, its president said on Wednesday, challenging farm equipment industry leader Deere & Co.
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