TOKYO - Britain and Japan are preparing to hold a summit in Japan between prime ministers Boris Johnson and Fumio Kishida in mid-February, the Nikkei reported on Saturday. Johnson and Kishida are expected to discuss the Ukraine crisis as well as ways to counter a increasingly strong China, the report said without citing sources. (Reporting by Sakura Murakami; Editing by William Mallard

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TOKYO - Japan is set to nominate several mines for consideration as world heritage sites by UNESCO, its prime minister said on Friday, despite protests from South Korea that the move is inappropriate as forced labourers were used there in World War Two. Japan's cultural affairs agency selected the gold and silver mines on the island of Sado as candidates for listing by the United

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TOKYO - The Bank of Japan could consider targeting a shorter maturity than the current 10-year bond yield as an option when the time comes to exit its ultra-easy policy, the central bank's governor, Haruhiko Kuroda, said on Friday. At this stage, however, it was premature to raise the BOJ's interest rate targets or take steps to steepen the yield curve, Kuroda told parliament. Under a

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The Nissan auto alliance said Thursday it will invest 23 billion euros ($25.7 billion) in electric vehicles over the next five years, marking the latest massive cash injection into the fast-growing sector by the auto industry.

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By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO -Japanese trading house Marubeni Corp will sell the grains business of its U.S. unit Gavilon to commodities trader Glencore PLC's Viterra arm for $1.125 billion, plus working capital, Viterra said on Wednesday. Marubeni said it expected to gain a total of 300 billion to 400 billion yen ($2.6 billion to $3.5 billion), including loans to grains merchant Gavilon,

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Japan's Marubeni to sell Gavilon grain business to Glencore arm for $1.1 billion

TOKYO - A Japanese maker of electric motors, Nidec Corp, posted on Wednesday a third-quarter operating profit of 44.3 billion yen, down from a corresponding figure of 46.4 billion a year ago. The result for the three months to Sept 30 fell short of an average profit of 49.9 billion yen estimated by five analysts surveyed by Refinitiv. The company stuck to its full-year forecast for

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The Kanto region is expected to get a dusting of snow or some rain from the night of Jan. 25 due to the effects of a low-pressure system, which is forecast to form off the Tokai region.

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The one-night-only illumination on January 31 will also be live-streamed on YouTube

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