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2 1.1 Nikkei falls on uncertainty over U. S. election; posts biggest weekly drop since early Aug

(1.00/3) TOKYO, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average fell to a 2-1/2-week low on Friday after major stocks like automakers stumbled on continued uncertainty... 2016-11-04 02:14 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk

3 1.3 Michigan-based Takata subsidiary reportedly considering bankruptcy The Auburn Hills-based subsidiary of a Japanese supplier linked to a recall of explosive airbags could be preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. 2016-11-04 07:00 2KB www.mlive.com

4 1.9 Japan on high alert for Saudi 'provocateurs' Japan coach Vahid Halilhodzic on Friday warned his players against Saudi Arabia's 2016-11-04 05:11 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

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6 3.3 Ariya Jutanugarn chips in for share of lead in Japan Ariya Jutanugarn chipped in for birdie on the final hole Friday for a 6-under 66 and a share of the TOTO Japan Classic lead with Soo-Yun Kang. 2016-11-04 02:39 2KB www.charlotteobserver.com

7 2.0 Japan's beleaguered utilities seek salvation in trading By Yuka Obayashi and Osamu Tsukimori TOKYO, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Forced into action by falling customers due to market liberalization and a shrinking population... 2016-11-04 02:14 5KB www.dailymail.co.uk

8 2.0 Suicide at Japan's top ad agency puts overtime on the reform agenda By Stanley White and Teppei Kasai TOKYO, Nov 4 (Reuters) - In April last year, Matsuri Takahashi, a promising graduate of Japan's top university, landed a jo... 2016-11-04 02:07 6KB www.dailymail.co.uk Articles

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1 /8 1.1 Myanmar's Suu Kyi says situation in Rakhine State being investigated (2.28/3) TOKYO, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Friday investigations are underway into the situation in Rakhine State, where many members of a Muslim minority live and where human rights workers say conflict has led to civilian abuse by the military.

Suu Kyi, speaking on a visit to Tokyo, told a news conference the government had not tried to hide anything and was trying to get to the root of the matter, and would not accuse anyone until the investigation was complete. Any action would be taken in accordance with due legal process, she added.

Suu Kyi has not directly commented on calls from human rights experts urging the government to investigate allegations of abuse, including rapes and killings, or on statements from human rights monitors, although she has urged the military to act with restraint. (Reporting by Elaine Lies; Writing by Linda Sieg; Editing by Robert Birsel)

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Myanmar policeman killed Suu Kyi says peace needed Suu Kyi says peace needed by attackers in Rakhine for Myanmar's development for Myanmar’s development State - officials article.wn.com article.wn.com dailymail.co.uk

2016-11-04 03:39 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

2 /8 1.1 Nikkei falls on uncertainty over U. S. election; posts biggest weekly drop since early Aug (1.00/3) TOKYO, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average fell to a 2-1/2- week low on Friday after major stocks like automakers stumbled on continued uncertainty surrounding next week's U. S. presidential election.

The Nikkei ended 1.3 percent lower at 16,905.36, the lowest closing level since Oct. 17. For the week, the Nikkei tumbled 3.1 percent, the biggest weekly drop in four months.

The broader Topix dropped 1.6 percent to 1,347.04 and the JPX-Nikkei Index 400 declined 1.6 percent to 12,066.29. (Reporting by Ayai Tomisawa; Editing by Smon Cameron-Moore)

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2016-11-04 02:14 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

3 /8 1.3 Michigan-based Takata subsidiary reportedly considering bankruptcy DETROIT -- The Auburn Hills-based subsidiary of a Japanese supplier linked to a recall of explosive airbags could be preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Japan's Nikkei reports that Takata Corp.'s TK Holdings is eyeing the move amid crippling costs related to the largest automotive safety recall in U. S. history.

Honda, which has the largest portion of cars affected by the recall, and Toyota are both leaning in favor of TK Holdings pursuing bankruptcy, Nikkei reports.

Parent company Takata could pursue an out-of-court settlement while TK Holdings is restructured, to keep its part-supply operations functioning, the Japanese newspaper reported. TK Holdings contributed about 30 percent of the parent company's net sales for its last fiscal year, ended in March. Takata had previously said in a release to investors Oct. 11 that media reports that it was pursuing bankruptcy for TK Holdings "are not based on any announcement made by Takata. "

"Takata has not made any decision nor has facts to be disclosed concerning this matter," the statement said. The company added that it has set up a steering committee to develop a comprehensive restructuring plan "that considers all its stakeholders. "

The Takata airbag recall, which includes driver- and passenger-side airbags, spans 14 automakers and 22 brands. Almost 70 million airbag inflators are or will be under recall by 2019, in what regulators are calling the largest and most complex auto safety recall in U. S. history.

The airbag inflators have in some instances become explosive, sending metal pieces flying through the cabin of the vehicles when the airbags are deployed.

The ammonium nitrate that ignites the air bag inflators can be damaged by moisture over time, especially in humid environments. Once damaged, the propellant has been known to become explosive.

The faulty Takata airbags have been linked to at least 15 deaths worldwide and more than 150 injuries.

If you suspect your vehicle is included the recall, you can plug your vehicle identification number into NHTSA's VIN lookup at vinrcl.safercar.gov/vin/. For complete consumer information from NHTSA, you can visit http://www.safercar.gov/rs/takata .

2016-11-04 07:00 David Muller www.mlive.com

4 /8 1.9 Japan on high alert for Saudi 'provocateurs' Japan coach Vahid Halilhodzic on Friday warned his players against Saudi Arabia's "specialists in provocation" in a home World Cup qualifier this month that could potentially decide his own future. The Franco- Bosnian, whose position as head coach has been plunged into doubt after a disappointing 2018 qualifying campaign, has named a full-strength side for the November 15 clash in Saitama. "Firstly, it's a six-pointer and we know we must win," said Halilhodzic, who will be desperate for victory after watching the Blue Samurai slip to third in their group in the final round of Asian 2018 qualifying. "But we also know Saudi Arabia win a lot of free kicks and penalties. Fifty percent of their goals come that way -- they are specialists at provoking free kicks. " "We've been penalised a lot in our last few games and those penalties have cost us," he added. "I have to drill it into the players not to be so naive this time because this is a game we have to win. " Japan conceded a penalty in their shock 2-1 home defeat to UAE in September and another when they drew 1-1 with Asian Cup-holders Australia in Melbourne. With Japan currently out of the automatic qualifying spots and facing a battle to reach a sixth successive World Cup, Halilhodzic knows another slip-up against the high-flying Saudis could cost him his job. "Saudi Arabia are improving," said the firebrand former Algeria coach. "Arab sides are getting better technically and in all elements of the game. They have real quality so we need to be on our game. " Japan, who face Oman in a warm-up game in Kashima next Friday before tackling the Saudis, will be spearheaded by talismanic forward Keisuke Honda and playmaker Shinji Kagawa. However, Halilhodzic must hope for an improvement on the recent form with a difficult run of games to come while rumours of a rift between the coach and his players have done little to help the team's flagging morale. Japan trail Group B leaders Saudi Arabia, who have 10 points from four matches, and Australia, on eight points, with only the top two teams from the two groups qualifying automatically for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Japan squad: Goalkeepers -- Shusaku Nishikawa (Urawa), Eiji Kawashima (Metz), Masaaki Higashiguchi () Defenders -- Yuto Nagatomo (Inter Milan), (Marseille), Gotoku Sakai (Hamburg), Tomoaki Makino (Urawa), Masato Morishige (Tokyo), Maya Yoshida (Southampton), Yuichi Maruyama (Tokyo), (Kashima) Midfielders -- Makoto Hasebe (Frankfurt), (Cerezo Osaka), Shinji Kagawa (Dortmund), Hiroshi Kiyotake (Sevilla), Ryota Nagaki (Kashima), Yosuke Ideguchi (Gamba Osaka), Yuki Kobayashi (Heerenveen) Forwards -- Keisuke Honda (AC Milan), Shinji Okazaki (Leicester), Genki Haraguchi (Hertha), (Stuttgart), Yuya Osako (Cologne), Manabu Saito (Yokohama), Yuya Kubo (Young Boys)

2016-11-04 05:11 Afp www.dailymail.co.uk

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6 /8 3.3 Ariya Jutanugarn chips in for share of lead in Japan Ariya Jutanugarn chipped in for birdie on the final hole Friday for a 6-under 66 and a share of the TOTO Japan Classic lead with Soo-Yun Kang.

Jutanugarn birdied six of the last 11 holes in her bogey-free round, holing out from 35 feet on the par- 4 18th in the LPGA Tour's first visit to the Tokyo area since 1991. The 20-year-old Thai star leads the LPGA Tour with five victories and has a 13-point lead over Lydia Ko in the player of the year standings.

Kang birdied three of her final four holes and had only 22 putts on the Taiheiyo Club's pine tree- lined Minori Course. The 40-year-old South Korean player won the LPGA Tour's 2005 Safeway Classic and is now a regular on the Japan LPGA. She won the Suntory Ladies in June for her second Japanese title.

American Stacy Lewis and South Korea's Jenny Shin shot 67. South Korea's Ha Na Jang and Germany's Sandra Gal followed at 68 in the sixth and final event on the LPGA Tour's fall Asian swing.

Lewis, the 2012 winner at Kintetsu Kashikojima, rebounded from a bogey on the par-4 15th with a birdie on the par-5 17th. The 11-time tour champion is winless in 61 starts since June 2014. She has 11 runner-up finishes during the drought.

Jang won last month in Taiwan for her third victory of the year.

China's Shanshan Feng, the winner last week in Malaysia, topped the group at 69 along with Minjee Lee, Suzann Pettersen, Cristie Kerr, 2008 and 2010 winner Jiyai Shin and So Yeon Ryu. Lee won the Blue Bay LPGA two weeks ago in China for her second victory of the year. Shin won the JLPGA event last week in Saitama.

The top-ranked Ko had a 74, making two birdies and four bogeys. Gary Matthews caddied for Ko and also will carry her bag in the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship. Ko fired Jason Hamilton and used Sargunan Suntharaj last week in Malaysia. Hamilton teamed with Jang after his firing.

American Lexi Thompson birdied the final hole for a 73. In May in Japan, she won the JLPGA's World Ladies Championship Salonpas Cup.

2016-11-04 02:39 The Associated www.charlotteobserver.com

7 /8 2.0 Japan's beleaguered utilities seek salvation in trading By Yuka Obayashi and Osamu Tsukimori

TOKYO, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Forced into action by falling customers due to market liberalization and a shrinking population, Japan's utilities are ditching old long-term coal and gas supply contracts in favour of more short-term, opportunistic trading.

The move represents a sea change for the traditionally risk averse utilities as they seek to cut costs, but will make life harder for liquefied natural gas (LNG) producers who have relied on long-term sales to underwrite costly new projects and expansions.

It could also help Japan, the world's biggest LNG buyer and the No.3 importer of thermal coal, meet its goal of becoming an LNG trading hub, although it faces stiff competition from China and Singapore.

Almost entirely without its own energy resources, power companies in Japan, have long put security of supply over cost. But a falling population - down 1 million since 2010 to 127 million - a new wave of competition and the rise of renewable energy, have forced a re-think.

"Things are very uncertain and we have to deal with these uncertainties by changing how we procure LNG, including the flexibility to trade unused LNG in overseas markets," said Yuji Kakimi, President of Jera Co, the world's biggest buyer of LNG and one of Japan's largest buyers of thermal coal.

Barely recovered from higher costs in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, utilities are grappling with a regulatory shake-up that ended their monopoly powers and threw open the $77 billion a year retail market to more than 350 firms.

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings and Chubu Electric Power, which formed Jera to buy their fuel in 2015, have lost 1.2 million customers since April, official figures show, while Kansai Electric Power has lost over 380,000.

Jera said last month it plans to buy the coal trading unit of French state-controlled utility EDF, more than doubling its coal trading volume and potentially transforming it into a global leader of coal and natural gas trading.

"We expect to benefit from economies of scale and stronger bargaining power," Jera general manager Izumi Kai said, adding that the company hopes to create an integrated coal, LNG and electricity trading platform.

Shikoku Electric Power, which relies on coal for half its power generation, has formed a joint venture in Australia with trading house Noble Group to trade thermal coal, and is set to buy coal from Russia and Colombia.

Tokyo Gas, Japan's biggest city gas supplier, is looking at business tie-ups in Southeast Asia, and has already started reselling some LNG at ports in Japan.

"Trading has been expanding and if our investments overseas go well, we would think about selling to overseas markets to help drive profits," said Shuichi Yoshida, a general manager of accounting.

HUBS AND ARBITRATION

The biggest changes may come in LNG, typically priced in Asia in reference to what's known as the Japanese Crude Cocktail (JCC) price, which links contracts to oil prices.

"There is a secular trend away from JCC and towards hybrid prices, which will include spot prices," said Jonathan Stern, Distinguished Research Fellow, Natural Gas Research Programme at the University of Oxford's Institute for Energy Studies.

If the gap between JCC and LNG spot prices widens dramatically then trading would "rapidly accelerate," increasing liquidity and potentially reducing prices for utilities, he said.

The JCC price for LNG was $7.62/mmBtu in September, with Asian spot LNG prices nearly 30 percent cheaper at around $5.50/mmBtu.

The utilities want to rid themselves of fixed-volume LNG supply contracts with time frames that can last a generation, and are set to push hard during pre-set negotiating periods in long-term contracts.

Jera plans to cut the amount of LNG it gets from long-term contracts by 42 percent by 2030, while Japan's second-biggest city gas supplier, Osaka Gas, has also said it may not sign new long-term LNG contracts for the next several years.

Re-writing existing deals or setting up new structures will likely result in a wave of arbitration and regulatory rulings, as happened in Europe after electricity market liberalization over the past two decades. "With the need to renew LNG supply agreements into Japan and an oversupplied global LNG market in the coming years, diversity in LNG contract terms will increase," said Daniel Muthmann of consultancy global gas partners in Essen, Germany.

"Japanese utilities have already started to inform themselves quite extensively about European market developments. "

($1 = 102.9000 yen)

(Additional reporting by Aaron Sheldrick in TOKYO and Vera Eckert in FRANKFURT; Editing by Henning Gloystein and Richard Pullin)

2016-11-04 02:14 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

8 /8 2.0 Suicide at Japan's top ad agency puts overtime on the reform agenda By Stanley White and Teppei Kasai

TOKYO, Nov 4 (Reuters) - In April last year, Matsuri Takahashi, a promising graduate of Japan's top university, landed a job at Dentsu, one of the country's most prestigious advertising agencies, renowned for its hard-driving work culture.

Nine months later, she jumped to her death, leaving behind a trail of public grievances on social media about her relentless working hours and boss's verbal abuse.

Japan's labour ministry last month ruled the 24-year-old's death "karoshi", literally "death by overwork" and raided her employer, Dentsu Inc, to see if overwork abuses were pervasive in the company.

For many Japanese, Takahashi's death is the tragic consequence of Article 36 of Japan's labour code, which leaves overtime pay and limits to the discretion of employers and typically benign unions.

That loophole could be challenged as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe embarks on a wide-reaching campaign to reform Japan's employment laws, which could include stiffer overtime regulation for companies.

"The law does not prevent companies from working employees beyond reasonable limits," said Emiko Teranishi, head of the Families Dealing with Karoshi, a support group. "The unions are also responsible because they accept these conditions. "

Such groups say companies often intimidate employees, especially new hires, into working excessive hours to prove their worth.

Japan's first white paper on karoshi released last month showed 22.7 percent of 1,743 companies surveyed had employees who in the past year worked more than 80 hours of overtime in a month, the government's threshold for karoshi.

Takahashi clocked 105 hours of overtime in October 2015 and fell into depression the following month, a summary provided by her family's lawyer citing the government report showed.

Japan officially recognises two types of karoshi: death from cardiovascular illness linked to overwork, and suicide following work-related mental stress.

In the fiscal year ended March 2015, there were 93 suicides and attempted suicides from overwork, down from 99 the previous fiscal year. The number of deaths from cardiovascular illness linked to overwork fell to 96 from 121.

Labour Minister Yasuhisa Shiozaki last week told reporters that he wants to strengthen monitoring of companies' overtime practices and that his ministry would decide a punishment for Dentsu based on the results of its investigation.

According to one person with knowledge of the agenda for Abe's panel, a new law placing legal limits on overtime hours could be considered.

This would mean revising Article 36 to cap overtime to anywhere from 45 to 80 hours a month, said the person, who declined to be named because the plans are not final.

Article 36 and other issues will be examined by Abe's panel on labour reform, which is expected to issue a plan next March.

A HARD SLOG

Labour groups and business lobby representatives involved in Abe's panel are likely to discuss whether the law will exempt certain industries from those limits.

In Japan's strongly pro-employer economy, changes to overtime regulation, if they come, are unlikely to sail through unchallenged.

Hard work and sacrifice have long been synonymous with Japan, one of Asia's earliest tiger economies, and strong social expectations make it difficult for employees and unions to aggressively push for reforms.

Workers often feel a debt of gratitude for being hired, and are reluctant to quit even if conditions are bad. Others feel they have to work longer hours than their colleagues to get promoted.

In recent years, the government has revised labour laws to encourage shorter working hours, but critics say these steps relied too much on self-regulation.

"Many companies expect young employees to work long hours to learn new skills," said Yasuko Oshima, a senior economist at Mizuho Research Institute who specialises in labour policy.

"Companies have been cutting labour costs since the 1990s, which increases each individual's work burden. "

REASONS FOR LIVING

Takahashi's case is not the first time Dentsu has been called to account for its overtime practices.

The Supreme Court ruled in 2000 that the agency was responsible for the suicide of an employee in 1991 because excessive work hours pushed him into depression. In an e-mail to employees on Oct. 17, Dentsu's CEO Tadashi Ishii said the company could face criminal prosecution as a result of Takahashi's death. He also said the company would lower monthly overtime limits to 65 hours from 70 hours a month, according to a copy of the email obtained by Reuters.

Dentsu told Reuters it is cooperating with authorities and declined to comment further.

The lawyer for Takahashi's family declined to comment on whether they will sue Dentsu. The family refused interview requests.

For now, Takahashi's death has pushed the thorny issues of karoshi and workplace harassment into the spotlight as policymakers look to address other challenges around labour.

Several months into her new job, Takahashi, a graduate of Tokyo University whose first name Matsuri means "festival", started complaining on Twitter about her male boss insulting her appearance, sleeping only two or three hours a day and regularly working weekends.

"When you spend 20 hours a day at the office you no longer understand what you're living for and can't help but laugh," she tweeted on Dec. 18.

On Christmas Day, she jumped off a company dormitory.

"My daughter is never coming back," Takahashi's mother said last month, domestic media reported. "No job is more important than your life. I strongly hope that karoshi doesn't happen again. "

(Additional reporting by Izumi Nakagawa; Editing by Malcolm Foster and Sam Holmes)

2016-11-04 02:07 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

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