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Daniel Leussink

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@Reuters correspondent in Japan. Contact me at daniel.leussink@tr.com. DM for Signal number.

 Tokyo, Japan
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Joined March 2011
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At a poultry farm in Japan, lights automatically flick on in two barns at 2:30 a.m., waking 4,400 caged hens to eat before the summer season's oppressive heat suppresses their appetite. reuters.com/investigates/spe…
Japan's farmers go nocturnal as deadly heat intensifies

Japan's farmers go nocturnal as deadly heat intensifies

As summer heat intensifies in Japan, farmers are adapting by working through the night and before dawn.

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Exclusive: Japan warns Vietnam of job losses as Hanoi motorbike ban hits Honda reuters.com/sustainability/c…
EXCLUSIVE: Japan warns Vietnam of job losses as Hanoi motorbike ban hits Honda

EXCLUSIVE: Japan warns Vietnam of job losses as Hanoi motorbike ban hits Honda

The Japanese government and some of the nation's top manufacturers have warned Vietnam that a planned ban on petrol-powered motorbikes in Hanoi could spark job losses and disrupt a $4.6 billion...

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Exclusive: Nissan seeks to delay supplier payments to free up cash, company emails show reuters.com/business/autos-t… With @reuters_shiraki and @ddolan_journo

EXCLUSIVE: Nissan seeks to delay supplier payments to free up cash, company emails show

Nissan Motor has asked some suppliers to allow it to delay payments to free up short-term funds, according to several emails and a company document reviewed by Reuters, as the troubled Japanese...

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Discrimination still haunts Japan's Nobel-winning A-bomb survivors reuters.com/world/japan/disc…
Discrimination still haunts Japan's Nobel-winning A-bomb survivors

Discrimination still haunts Japan's Nobel-winning A-bomb survivors

Having survived the atomic bomb that flattened his hometown of Hiroshima when he was nine months old, Kunihiko Sakuma has never forgotten the stain it left on him in the eyes of some of his fellow...

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In Hiroshima, Nobel Prize brings survivors hope, sense of duty reuters.com/world/asia-pacif… with @IreneWang143828
In Hiroshima, Nobel Prize brings survivors hope, sense of duty

In Hiroshima, Nobel Prize brings survivors hope, sense of duty

Almost eight decades after an atomic bomb devastated her home town, Teruko Yahata carries the scar on her forehead from when she was knocked over by the force of the blast.

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Tesla clears key regulatory hurdles for self-driving in China as Musk visits $TSLA reuters.com/world/china/boss… with others
In China, Elon Musk scores wins on the path to self-driving cars

In China, Elon Musk scores wins on the path to self-driving cars

Elon Musk made progress towards rolling out Tesla's advanced driver-assistance package in China on a whirlwind weekend trip to Beijing, sending the company's shares soaring more than 16% on Monday.

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Beijing auto show: Foreign automakers eager for Chinese partners reuters.com/business/autos-t… with @sarah_wu_ and others
Beijing auto show: Foreign automakers eager for Chinese partners

Beijing auto show: Foreign automakers eager for Chinese partners

Global automakers including Volkswagen and Toyota came to this year's Beijing auto show looking to catch up to surging China EV makers that are dominating the world's largest auto market.

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Japan Inc makes a renewed U.S. push as China fears mount reuters.com/world/japan/japa… with @ddolan_journo
Japan Inc makes a renewed U.S. push as China fears mount

Japan Inc makes a renewed U.S. push as China fears mount

Japanese companies are increasingly hitching their growth plans to the United States, as concerns about Chinese demand and Beijing's influence over supply chains prompt a noticeable pivot toward the...

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Nissan may bring ultra-compact EV production in-house from 2028, sources say reuters.com/business/autos-t… by @reuters_shiraki
Nissan may bring ultra-compact EV production in-house from 2028, sources say

Nissan may bring ultra-compact EV production in-house from 2028, sources say

Japan's Nissan Motor may bring production of its ultra-compact electric vehicles in-house, five people familiar with the matter said, emboldened by the success of its Sakura model currently built by...

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Trump adds to Nippon-U.S. Steel deal woes in blow for Japan Inc reuters.com/markets/deals/tr… with Anton Bridge, @geddiejdk and others

Trump adds to Nippon-U.S. Steel deal woes in blow for Japan Inc

Donald Trump's pledge to block Nippon Steel's planned purchase of U.S. Steel if he retakes the White House compounds political troubles for the $15 billion deal whose failure could reverberate across...

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Toyota to outshine rivals as more consumers opt for hybrids amid EV slowdown reuters.com/business/autos-t… with @abhiruproy30
Toyota to outshine rivals as more consumers opt for hybrids amid EV slowdown

Toyota to outshine rivals as more consumers opt for hybrids amid EV slowdown

When Tony Le set out with his wife to buy a new car last year, he looked at Tesla and other all-electric models.

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Japan's message for Donald Trump: don't cut a deal with China reuters.com/world/asia-pacif… by @geddiejdk, @kellyJapan, Yoshifumi Takemoto and others
Japan's message for Donald Trump: don't cut a deal with China

Japan's message for Donald Trump: don't cut a deal with China

Tokyo has stepped up attempts to engage with people close to Trump in recent weeks.

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Exclusive: Panasonic puts productivity boost ahead of new EV plant in US reuters.com/technology/panas… with Miho Uranaka
EXCLUSIVE: Panasonic puts productivity boost ahead of new EV plant in US

EXCLUSIVE: Panasonic puts productivity boost ahead of new EV plant in US

Panasonic's battery business must focus on boosting productivity, Group CEO Yuki Kusumi told Reuters, signalling the Tesla supplier may hold off building a third battery plant in North America as...

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In the ruins of a historic market, a Japanese artisan looks for his cats reuters.com/world/asia-pacif… by Kiyoshi Takenaka
In the ruins of a historic market, a Japanese artisan looks for his cats

In the ruins of a historic market, a Japanese artisan looks for his cats

Kohei Kirimoto, an 8th-generation lacquerware artisan, walked through the ruins of his century-old workshop in the Japanese coastal town of Wajima on Thursday, concerned only for his missing cats.

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Exclusive: Doomed Japan plane on third quake mission when runway disaster hit reuters.com/world/asia-pacif… by Nobuhiro Kubo and others
EXCLUSIVE: Doomed Japan plane on third quake mission when runway disaster hit

EXCLUSIVE: Doomed Japan plane on third quake mission when runway disaster hit

A Coast Guard plane was making its third emergency trip to an earthquake zone within 24 hours when it collided with a passenger jet at a very busy Haneda airport, a Coast Guard official told Reuters.

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Japan earthquake: race against time to find survivors reuters.com/world/asia-pacif… by Kiyoshi Takenaka and @sakmurak
Japan earthquake: race against time to find survivors

Japan earthquake: race against time to find survivors

Thousands of rescuers pressed on in a search for survivors of a New Year's Day earthquake that killed at least 84 people in Japan, hoping to save as many as possible despite a three day survival...

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As Japan's Wajima city digs out from quake, hopes fade for tourism recovery reuters.com/world/asia-pacif… by Kiyoshi Takenaka
As Japan's Wajima city digs out from quake, hopes fade for tourism recovery

As Japan's Wajima city digs out from quake, hopes fade for tourism recovery

Chef Makoto Wakabayashi was among those in Wajima hoping for a banner year as visitors returned after years of pandemic gloom. That changed on New Year's Day, with the scenic, seaside town facing a...

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Japan Airlines counts losses from wrecked Tokyo plane reuters.com/business/aerospa… with Kaori Kaneko and @LisaBarrington
Japan Airlines counts losses from wrecked Tokyo plane

Japan Airlines counts losses from wrecked Tokyo plane

Japan Airlines (JAL) on Thursday said it expected losses of more than $100 million after one of its planes was destroyed when it collided with another aircraft on the runway at Tokyo's Haneda airport...

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How Japan Airlines crew led 367 passengers to safety from a burning plane reuters.com/world/asia-pacif… by @changran_kim
How Japan Airlines crew led 367 passengers to safety from a burning plane

How Japan Airlines crew led 367 passengers to safety from a burning plane

From the moment a Japan Airlines passenger jet collided with a smaller plane on a runway in Tokyo on Tuesday, it took crew 18 minutes to get all 367 travellers off the plane and safely accounted for.

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Japan quake: survivors face freezing rain, threat of landslides reuters.com/world/asia-pacif… by Kiyoshi Takenaka, @sakmurak and @ChrisGallagher4
Japan quake survivors face freezing rain, threat of landslides

Japan quake survivors face freezing rain, threat of landslides

Rescuers raced against the clock on Wednesday searching for survivors of an earthquake in western Japan that killed at least 65, while evacuees continued to wait for further aid amid freezing...

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