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New Tokyo governor pledges Olympic cost probe

Tokyo's new governor on Tuesday (Aug 2) promised a formal review of the megacity's problem-plagued preparations for the 2020 Olympics as concerns grow over soaring costs.

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Japanese govt seeks to speed up Olympic preparations

The central government aims to accelerate preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics following the outcome of Sunday’s Tokyo gubernatorial election.

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Punishment of new governor Koike lies with party's Tokyo chapter: Japan gov't top spokesman

Japan's top government spokesman said Monday that any punishment for new Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike's defiance of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) would primarily lie with the party's Tokyo chapter.

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Tokyo elects 1st female governor amid troubled preparations for 2020 Olympics

Voters in the Japanese capital elected their first female governor on Sunday after her two predecessors stepped down amid scandals while the city is gearing up for preparations of the 2020 Olympic Games.

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Japan's taxi industry prepares for fiercer competition

The taxi industry is improving its services to prepare for fierce competition with emerging on-demand ride-hailing services and other start-up companies.

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Candidates kick off their campaigns in battle to become new Tokyo governor

Official campaigning began on Thursday for the July 31 gubernatorial election, pitting two former ministers with links to the metropolitan assembly’s ruling party against a veteran journalist backed by a united opposition front.

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Japanese PM Shinzo Abe faces legal challenge to election win over voting ‘imbalance’

Two groups of lawyers on Monday mounted legal challenges to the results of Sunday’s elections in Japan, claiming that the disparity in the value of votes in different parts of the country made the poll unconstitutional.

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Tokyo Disney Resort to expand

Tokyo Disney Resort operator Oriental Land Co. aims to increase the annual number of visitors to their theme parks by 10 percent to 33 million over the next 10 years, President Kyoichiro Uenishi said in an interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun.

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Uniqlo to halt business trips to Bangladesh after attack

Japan's Fast Retailing Co., owner of the Uniqlo casual-wear brand, said it plans to suspend all business travel to Bangladesh after militants targeting foreigners killed 20 people in the country's capital on Saturday, including seven Japanese.

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Nuclear disarmament meeting held in Tokyo between nuclear, non-nuclear states

​The three-day International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification meeting began in Tokyo on Tuesday, comprising 26 countries both nuclear and non-nuclear as well as the European Union.

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Tokyo shares close higher by break after plunging on Brexit

​Tokyo shares rebounded Monday morning as market players bought in stocks that had plunged after Britain voted to leave the European Union in a referendum.

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Tokyo governor's scandal highlights Japan's age-old "wheeler-dealer" style of politics

​The resignation Wednesday of Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe for his misappropriation of political funds has once again brought to the fore the inherent "wheeler-dealer" type of dealings that have plagued Japanese politics for decades.

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Tokyo governor urged to quit for misuse political fund, facing no-confidence motion

​Scandal-hit Tokyo Governor Yoichi Masuzoe has been urged to step down in a deliberation at the Tokyo metropolitan assembly on Monday and is facing a no-confidence motion as early as Wednesday due to his misuse of political fund.

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Korean Air plane catches fire on Haneda runway, Tokyo

More than 300 passengers and crew were evacuated from a Korean Air plane in Tokyo, Japan after a fire broke out in its left engine.

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Abe visits Putin looking to warm Japan-Russia ties despite island dispute

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday (May 6) in the Black Sea resort of Sochi in a bid to bolster ties and seek to resolve a decades-long territorial dispute.

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Japanese firms raided over post-quake bid-rigging

Public prosecutors and the Fair Trade Commission started searching the head offices of more than 10 road paving companies and related locations on Wednesday in connection with their alleged bid-rigging on projects to repair expressways damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake.