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Optimism rising high, soft landing on track
Reuters via Yahoo Singapore Finance· 9 hours agoJapan's Nikkei 225 index scraped a new record high of 41,100 points on Friday and has risen some 7% in just two weeks, and the MSCI Emerging Market and...
Japan faces shortage of almost a million foreign workers in 2040, think tank says
Reuters via Yahoo Singapore Finance· 4 days agoJapan faces a shortage of almost one million foreign workers in 2040 if the government wants to...
Nearly 500 people hospitalised in Japan after taking red yeast supplements
The Independent via Yahoo News Singapore· 5 days agoAs many as 492 people have been hospitalised as of Sunday, 291 of them with kidney diseases, the ...
Sister of North Korean leader Kim calls South Korea's live-fire drills 'suicidal hysteria'
Associated Press via Yahoo News Singapore· 7 hours agoThe powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called South Korea’s recent front-line...
'We have won the war on floppy disks!' Japan finally declares independence from floppy media
PC Gamer via Yahoo News Singapore· 4 days agoThose memories are hazy, though, and many of you might have no memory of floppy disks at all. Unless...
Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks
Reuters via Yahoo News Singapore· 5 days agoJapan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited ...
Japan's Supreme Court rules that forced sterilisation law was unconstitutional
France 24 via Yahoo News Singapore· 5 days agoThousands of Japanese people who were forcibly sterilised between 1948 and 1996 will be able to...
Women fight Tokyo election in male-dominated Japan
AFP News via Yahoo News Singapore· 1 day agoPolls opened Sunday to elect a new Tokyo governor with incumbent Yuriko Koike challenged by opposition figure Renho, two prominent women in Japan's...
Japan declares victory in 'war' on floppy disks
BBC via Yahoo News Singapore· 4 days agoFloppy disks fell out of fashion in the 1990s as more efficient storage solutions were invented [Getty Images] It's taken until 2024, but Japan has...
Japan’s top court declares defunct forced sterilisation law unconstitutional
The Independent via Yahoo News Singapore· 5 days agoThough forced sterilisation was outlawed in 1996, high school textbooks as recently as 1975 stated...
