To attract more foreign investment and help grow the economy, Japan is looking to encourage more foreigners to start their own businesses in Japan by easing visa requirements in specially designated zones.
The most common way to start a business here is to get an investor/business manager visa. But applicants must first secure office space and have at least ¥5 million on hand to invest in the business or hire at least two full-time workers before they even apply for it.
According to the draft of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s revised growth strategy, however, the government plans to provide a moratorium on the visa application requirements, giving applicants time to raise funds and hire local staff.
How long the grace period will be hasn’t been decided yet, but some media reports say it will be one to two years.
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Keisuke Honda says that the results so far of Asian teams at the World Cup are a simple reflection of how far they are lagging behind the global elite in terms of ability, but the AC Milan midfielder still believes a miracle will send Japan through to the knockout phase of the competition.
Having only taken a point from two games so far after a 2-1 defeat to Cote d’Ivoire and a 0-0 draw against 10-man Greece, Japan is on the brink of elimination going into its final Group C game on Tuesday against Colombia in Cuiaba.
Not only do the Asian champions need to beat the South Americans, who have already booked their place in the last 16, they also need a favorable outcome from the other Group C match between Cote d’Ivoire (three points) and Greece (one).
But Honda, who left himself open to ridicule before the tournament with the bold statement that Japan had the potential to go all the way and win the World Cup, told reporters on Sunday: “Of course there is still a possibility (of advancing to the next round).
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Okinawa on Monday held a memorial service to mark the 69th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa, with a crowd of some 4,600 people gathering to commemorate the more than 200,000 lives lost in the prefecture during the closing days of World War II.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy were among the guests at a memorial service held to commemorate the war dead.
The anniversary came amid local fears that the island prefecture, where many civilians died after being caught in the battle between Japan and Allied forces, almost all from the United States, may once again be drawn into war as the Abe government pushes forward with efforts to lift the nation’s self-imposed ban on collective self-defense.
“On this day marking 69 years since the Battle of Okinawa, I lower my head silently, while closing my eyelids together with all the people of this country and etching deep in our hearts the fact that we owe our existence today to the sacrifices endured by Okinawa, and the blood and tears shed by its people,” Abe said.
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Liquefaction is highly likely to disrupt around 43 percent of the petrochemical complexes on the Pacific coast if a feared magnitude-9 quake hits the Nankai Trough off central and western Japan, government researchers said Monday.
It is also likely to affect a quarter of all such facilities near the capital if a magnitude-7 quake hits Tokyo.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will support the owners of the complexes and accelerate the implementation of disaster prevention measures. The government did not disclose the names of the complexes at risk.

The research data were presented at a meeting of oil and natural gas experts who also discussed a joint oil stockpile with producers in the Middle East, prompting the government to consider expanding it. METI plans to compile a report on oil supply in times of disaster this summer.
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An Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is out of control and requires massive resources from governments and aid agencies to prevent it from spreading further, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) said on Monday.
The death toll has hit 337 since February, the U.N. World Health Organization said last week, making it the deadliest outbreak since Ebola first emerged in 1976.
The disease has not previously occurred in the region and local people remain frightened of it and view health facilities with suspicion. This makes it harder to bring it under control, the charity said in a statement.
At the same time, the charity said, a lack of understanding has meant people continue to prepare corpses and attend funerals of Ebola victims, leaving them vulnerable to the disease, which is transmitted by touching the victims or through bodily fluids.
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An Egyptian court on Monday convicted three journalists from Al-Jazeera English and sentenced them to seven years in prison each on terrorism-related charges in a case that has brought an outcry from rights groups.
The sentences were handed down against Australian correspondent Peter Greste, Canadian-Egyptian acting Cairo bureau chief Mohammed Fahmy, and Egyptian producer Baher Mohammed, who also received an extra three years in prison on separate charges.
“I swear they will pay for this,” Fahmy shouted angrily from the defendants’ cage after the sentences were announced. Greste raised his fists in the air.
“They just ruined a family,” said Fahmy’s brother Adel, who was attending the session. He said they would appeal the verdict but added that he had little faith in the system. “Everything is corrupt,” he said.
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「分党」が正式に決まった２２日の日本維新の会の臨時党大会で、共同代表の橋下徹氏はこう強調し、今回の分裂を「橋下新党」の再スタートと位置づけた。大阪・近畿を地盤とする議員から「大阪都構想や来春の統一地方選に向けてすっきりした」と歓迎の声が上がる一方、橋下氏への不満から、もう一人の共同代表・石原慎太郎氏に従う議員もおり、温度差も浮き彫りになった。
　結いの党などと合流し、野党再編を進めたい橋下氏と、「自主憲法制定」へのこだわりが強い石原氏。この日午後１時から大阪市内で開かれた党大会では、まず石原氏が東京からテレビモニターで発言し、「大阪の方々は、パートナーに結いの党を選んだ。私たちは行動を共にすることはできない」と、橋下氏らへの不満をぶちまけた。
　だが、出席者のほとんどは橋下氏系の国会、地方議員で、拍手などは聞かれなかった。この後、橋下氏が「日本の社会システムを変え、今の時代に応じた改革を断行する」と述べると、会場は賛同の声に沸いた。
　大阪府議出身の東徹参院議員は「大阪にとっては、原点回帰でプラス。分党で野党再編に向けて間違いなく進み出す」と喜び、青野剛暁・大阪府議団代表も「来年の統一選に向けて走り出すスタート。大阪都構想の前進につながる」と前向きに受け止めた。
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中国の李克強リークォーチャン首相は１９～２１日のギリシャ訪問で、４８億ドル（約４９００億円）相当の貿易投資協定を締結したほか、ギリシャ国債の追加購入に前向きな姿勢を示すなど、同国経済への関与を強める姿勢を打ち出した。
　首相は、中国国有企業が経営権の一部を握るアテネ郊外ピレウス港の機能強化も強調し、欧州市場への拠点として同国での足場固めを着々と進めている。
　李氏はギリシャ滞在中の２０日、「中国沿岸からピレウス港は、アジアと欧州を結ぶ最短航路だ」と述べ、欧州最大の貿易港・ロッテルダム港より輸送期間を約１週間短縮できると強調した。中国・欧州連合（ＥＵ）間の海上貿易のうち、ギリシャ経由はすでに約５割を占めるが、李氏は、ピレウス港を「世界で最も競争力のある港にする」と宣言。同港と中欧を結ぶ貨物鉄道の輸送力強化にも意欲を示した。中国の国有海運大手・中国遠洋運輸は２００９年から同港ふ頭の経営権を持つが、中国からのコンテナ取扱量を３倍近くに増やし、同港運営会社の株式の過半数取得も狙っている。
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中国広東省珠海市の公安当局は２１日、市内の書店で女性のスカートの内側を隠し撮りした疑いで、現地で働く日本人の男（５３）を１９日に拘束したと発表した。市公安当局によると、男性は容疑を認めており、行政処分として５日間勾留される。
　調べによると、男は本を読んでいた女性の背後に近づき、女性のスカートの下に右足を伸ばしたという。気づいた女性が警察に通報。駆けつけた警官が男のサンダルを調べると、撮影機能がついた携帯電話が見つかった。男は３カ月前に珠海に来たばかりだった。
　事件は２２日までに中国各地のメディアで報じられ、ネット上に多くの感想が寄せられるなど話題を呼んでいる。
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　ロシアのプーチン大統領が２２日、ウクライナのポロシェンコ大統領が２０日に示した「和平計画」を支持する考えを表明した。一方で親ロシア派住民との対話に臨むよう注文をつけた。
　ポロシェンコ氏は、和平計画に実効性を持たせるため、軍に２７日午前１０時まで一方的な停戦を命じている。プーチン氏は２２日、独ソ戦が始まった記念日の催しに出席後、ロシアのメディアに「ポロシェンコ大統領の停戦表明は、疑いなく最終的な和平の重要な要素だ。ロシアは支持する」と述べた。
　そのうえで「停戦を基盤にすべての抵抗勢力と対話を始め、誰もが受け入れられる妥協案を見つけ、（親ロシア派を含む）東部、南部の住民が自国の一員だと感じられるようにすることが重要だ」と指摘した。
 
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Teenager Divock Origi became the youngest player to score in this World Cup when he cracked in an 88th-minute winner to give Belgium a 1-0 victory over Russia on Sunday and a place in the last 16.
Origi’s well-placed shot came after a dangerous jinking run and cutback from the left by Eden Hazard and it settled an otherwise turgid game during which the 73,000 fans regularly booed both teams.
The 19-year-old’s goal came just four minutes after Kevin Mirallas crashed a free-kick against the base of goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev’s right-hand post to give Belgium six points from two games.
“It was an important goal but I thought we created it as a team,” Origi said in a television interview. “I thought we showed today that we are mentally strong.”
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Acting under pressure from Taiwan, the Japanese organizers of an exhibition of ancient Chinese artifacts on loan from the Taiwan National Palace Museum said Sunday that they have taken steps to remove promotional materials that dropped the word “national” in referring to the government-operated institution.
Officials of the Tokyo National Museum said they hope to hold the opening ceremony for the special exhibition on Monday as scheduled, if approved by the Taiwan National Palace Museum.
The controversy surfaced Friday after the Taiwan Presidential Office issued a statement of protest, warning that the exhibition would be canceled unless organizers in Japan took steps to call the Taiwan museum by its official name.
Taiwan’s first lady, Chow Mei-ching, who was scheduled to attend the opening ceremony, has postponed her visit to Japan.
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