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Weak yen hits Japan Airlines profit

2014-04-30 11:36:26| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Japan Airlines reports a dip in full-year profits, which it says is mainly due to the weaker yen pushing up costs.

JAPAN: Warm weather hits Uniqlo October same-store sales

2013-11-05 12:52:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com

Casual clothing retailer Uniqlo has blamed warmer-than-expected weather in mid-October for a 13.8% decline in same-store sales at its Japanese stores.

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Japan biz group hits MWSS order to cut water rates

2013-10-05 16:36:46| Grocery - Topix.net

The local Japanese Chamber of Commerce hit the decision of Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System to order Manila's water concessionaires to cut their rates, a decision that would hurt Marubeni Corp., one of its members and a partner in Maynilad Water Services Inc. They said MWSS cut their rates because they supposedly subtracted expenses they ... (more)

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Japan: Fukushima Fallout Hits Farmers

2013-07-30 10:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: Life for Yoshihiro Watanabe and his wife Mutsuko, mushroom and rice farmers from Fukushima, has changed drastically since the disastrous meltdowns in the Dai Ichi nuclear plant that was hit by a massive tsunami after a 9.0 strong earthquake struck on Mar. 11, 2011. Dangerous levels of radiation from the crippled nuclear reactors have effectively forced us to stop our mushroom cultivation and reduced our farming income almost 80 percent, Watanabe told IPS. He added that the family is also taking...

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