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MNA Feature Desk: Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is looking for a female “life partner” to accompany him on Space X’s maiden tourist voyage to the Moon. The fashion mogul, 44, is set to be the first civilian passenger to fly around the moon on the Starship rocket. Planned for 2023, the mission will be the first lunar journey by humans since 1972. In an online appeal, Mr Maezawa says he wants to share the experience with a “special” woman. The entrepreneur, who recently split up from actress girlfriend Ayame Goriki, 27, has asked women to apply for a “planned match-making ...

MNA Business Desk: Bangladesh is likely to be the second largest recipient of Japanese assistance after India in the current Japanese fiscal year which starts from April 01. In last Japanese fiscal, Bangladesh was the third Japanese ODI recipient while some 270 Japanese companies are currently doing businesses in Bangladesh. “Japan appreciates the outcomes and is looking forward for stronger trade and commerce ties between Dhaka and Tokyo,” said a senior official of Japanese foreign ministry. “The Japanese government is happy and proud of that,” Deputy Press Secretary of Japanese foreign ministry Jun Saito said while talking to a small ...

MNA Editorial Desk: The Japanese version of the historic 7th March speech delivered by the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the then Race-Course Ground in 1971 has been published by the Embassy of Bangladesh, Tokyo. The speech was translated into Japanese as the first foreign language after English, reports UNB. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, while visiting Japan on May 29, launched and unwrapped the booklet of Japanese edition of 7th March speech. The booklet will be distributed to the educational institutions and other important institutions in Japan, said the Bangladesh Embassy in Tokyo on Monday. Bangabandhu’s ...

MNA National Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday called upon the Japanese business community to explore newer areas for investment in export-oriented sectors of Bangladesh. Sheikh Hasina invited the Japanese businessmen to explore the potentials of business and trade relations with Bangladesh. “I invite you to explore the full potentials of business and trade relations with Bangladesh. Given the excellent bilateral relations and understanding that exist between our two leaderships, and the tremendous goodwill prevails between our two peoples, let’s lift the business relations to a higher level,” she said. The Prime Minister made the call while speaking at ...

MNA International Desk: Millions of Japanese braved typhoon conditions Sunday for a snap election likely to hand Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a fresh mandate to revive the world’s third-largest economy and press his hardline stance on North Korea. If pre-election surveys prove correct, Abe’s conservative coalition will cruise to a crushing majority to win a fresh term at the helm of the key US regional ally and Asian economic powerhouse. Polling stations opened across the country at 7:00am (2200 GMT Saturday) with voters battling high winds and driving rain as an election-day typhoon barrelled towards Japan. Analysts say that if ...

MNA International Desk: Voters in the Japanese capital elected their first woman governor on Sunday, after two predecessors stepped down over scandals. Yuriko Koike, Japan’s first female defence minister, exhausted former bureaucrat and fellow member of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s party Hiroya Masuda, as well as liberal journalist Shuntaro Torigoe. Koike, 64-year-old, angered the Tokyo branch of Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party by not getting its consent before proclaiming her candidacy for city governor. The LDP instead drafted Masuda, 64-year-old, who once served as governor of a rural prefecture. “Taking this result very heavily, as the new governor I would like ...

MNA Technology Desk: In an age of Netflix and YouTube, the last Japanese company to manufacture VCRs is closing production of the tape-recording device more than four decades after they were first made available. Funai Electric, a Japanese consumer electronics company, will follow the rest of the world in giving up on the format by the end of the month, according to Japanese newspaper. The company has been vending VCRs since 1983 and at its highest sold 15 million a year, but sales have since decreased to around 750,000. Funai, which had been making them in China as a white-label ...