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Abe Cabinet plans to call experts ahead of Ise-Shima G-7 summit

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday unveiled a plan to hold meetings of experts from Japan and abroad in which the world economy will be analyzed ahead of the upcoming Ise-Shima summit of the Group of Seven major powers.

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Living with a negative rate, lower rates could buoy people with mortgages

This is the second and final installment of a two-part series.The impact of the Bank of Japan’s recent decision to introduce a negative interest rate policy will likely extend to people with housing loans, with already-low interest rates nudged down even further.

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Record players for newbies and oldies

Technology like CDs and Internet streaming has diversified the ways we listen to music, but the value of vinyl records is being recognized once again, and various types of record players are being released in keeping with that trend.

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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.

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Poll: Majority of Japanese tolerate same-sex romance

A majority of Japanese people tolerate romantic feelings between same-sex people, but many have strong resistance to having friends who are homosexual, a research team said Saturday.

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TPP task force should not limit itself to agricultural protection

We hope the government’s newly established TPP task force will not disappoint by coming up with measures focusing only on agricultural protection. It is essential that it consider how to utilize the vast, envisioned free-trade area to develop our economy.