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Japan stocks drop after Fed some auto shares rise
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Japanese stocks fell early Thursday after the Federal Reserve signaled an intention to scale down its bond purchases, although a weakened yen helped support the market. The Nikkei Stock ...
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Japan May Trade Deficit Y993.9 Billion
Japan posted a merchandise trade deficit of 993.916 billion yen in May, the Ministry of Finance said on Wednesday - slipping into the red for the 10th consecutive month.The headline figure beat forecasts for a shortfall of 1.22 trillion yen following the downwardly revised deficit of 881.9 billion yen (originally 879.9 trillion yen) in April.Exports surged 10.1 percent on year to 5.767 trillion ...
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Japan watchdog formally OKs new safety requirements at nuke plants paves way for resumption
Japan’s nuclear watchdog has formally approved new safety requirements for atomic plants, paving the way for the reopening of facilities shut down since the Fukushima disaster. The new requirements approved Wednesday by the Nuclear Regulation Authority will take effect on July 8, when operators will be able to apply for inspections. If plants pass inspection, they can reopen. All but ...
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Convenience store believed to have been robbed by same man twice
Police said Wednesday they are looking for a man who robbed a convenience store in Ome City, Tokyo, on Tuesday morning. Police believe the same man robbed the store in ...
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Tropical Storm Leepi aims for Japan
Leepi, neither seen as posing a typhoon threat nor the damaging winds this would imply, is instead expected to trigger heavy, potentially flooding rain, in its brush with Japan between Thursday and Saturday. As of Wednesday morning, EDT, the center of Tropical Cyclone Leepi was located about 280 miles east-southeast of Taipei, Taiwan, or about 1,200 miles southwest of Tokyo, Japan, heading ...
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Manufacturing expo opens in Tokyo
About 2,000 companies from 16 countries are showcasing their new products and technologies at Manufacturing World Japan 2013. The 3D printers use computer data to produce complicated structures from resin and other ...
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Abe aims to double foreign direct investment in Japan by 2020
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday stressed his resolve to double the outstanding balance of foreign companies' direct investment in Japan to about 35 trillion yen from the current level by ...
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Hackers break into Toyota server
The world's biggest auto maker said the security breach didn't compromise customer information because such data isn't stored on the site. But it urges those who visited the site from June 5 to June 14 to install anti-virus software. Toyota said unauthorized parties accessed one of its servers and tinkered with it so visitors to the Japanese home page were redirected to a ...
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LDP policy chief apologizes for remarks on nuclear disaster
The policy chief of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party apologized Wednesday over her remarks that drew criticism for making light of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear ...
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Abe Kenny affirm cooperation to realize Japan-EU FTA soon
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny affirmed on Wednesday their cooperation to realize a free trade agreement between Japan and the European Union at an early ...
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University of Tokyo may switch to quarters
The University of Tokyo may replace its two-semester academic year with a quarter system to make it easier to shift to fall enrollment and line up with international ...
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Hashimoto may quit as party head If Nippon Ishin loses Tokyo race
Toru Hashimoto, coleader of major opposition Nippon Ishin No Kai (Japan Restoration Party), hinted Wednesday that he may step down from the post if the party loses in Sunday's election for the Tokyo metropolitan ...
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New batch of Filipino health workers leave for Japan
A new batch of Philippine health workers, prequalified to train for practicing their profession in Japan under a bilateral agreement, left the Philippines for Japan on ...
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Yahoo Japan Targets Mobile as Economy Spurs Advertising
Yahoo Japan Corp. (4689) , operator of the country's most-visited Web portal, expects economic growth and a consumer shift to mobile services to spur revenue gains as it targets advertising growth of at least 10 percent. "We expect to continue the growth pace a while," Chief Financial Officer Toshiki Ohya said in an interview in Tokyo. Advertising, which account for more ...
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Gigi Buffon’s wonderfully animated reaction to Japan’s dubious penalty
Gianluigi Buffon was booked for the painfully obvious non-foul pictured above. Keisuke Honda then scored from the penalty spot to give Japan a surprising 1-0 lead in the 21st minute and then Shinji Kagawa made it 2-0 in the 33rd minute with a great goal of his own. Italy eventually got a goal back with ...
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Nikkei expected to edge down on Feds stimulus signals
TOKYO, June 20 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average is expected to lose ground on Thursday after U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the central bank could trim its bond buying programme later this year, but losses may be contained by a weakening yen. Market players said the Nikkei was likely to trade between 13,000 to 13,300 on Thursday after rising 1.8 percent at 13,245 in ...
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UPDATE 1-Sony spin-off plan off agenda but looms over shareholder meet
Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:22pm EDT By Mari Saito TOKYO, June 20 (Reuters) - A proposal by Sony Corp's top investor to partially spin off the Japanese company's lucrative entertainment business will be the elephant in the room at an annual shareholders meeting on Thursday. Daniel Loeb, who heads New York-based hedge fund Third Point, will miss the gathering and those attending will not consider ...
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Japan finds its land in China
For decades, China and Japan have not been able to settle the dispute on the Diaoyu Islands (Senkaku). Both countries consider the islands their own territory and find various historical reasons to prove their rightness. Numerous talks and meetings were conducted at the highest level, but the issue remains unresolved. A month ago, the territorial dispute flared up again. What can it lead ...
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How to make the most of your Japanese maple
Japanese maples have a reputation for being unapproachable - if you're wielding a pair of secateurs, that is. Elegantly aloof, these beautiful small trees are often allowed to form mounds of foliage at the expense of showing off their gracefully arching branches. And that's a shame, says Sara Katz of Toronto's Wild at Heart Design. "You should be able to see the branching ...
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No we cant - Japans conservative values collide with plan to mobilise women for economy
TOKYO (Reuters) - Days after Kaoru Shimada and other Japanese mothers rallied in Tokyo this year to press for more public daycare, she was shocked to read a local politician's blog blasting their "shameless" demands and asserting kids should be raised at ...
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Japanese leader defends economic policy during London speech
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has delivered a robust defence of his strategy to jolt the world's third largest economy out of almost two decades of stagnation - dubbed Abenomics - as he insisted in a speech ...
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Competing plans for Sony are equally shaky
Anyone prepared to take on the task of turning around a Japanese electronics group likes challenges. But the latest option suggested for Sony has to be one too far: spin off its electronics business. Put another way, that calls for the company to pitch a business which in five years has lost a fifth more than it ...
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AIRSHOW-Lockheed Mitsubishi sign deal for F-35 assembly in Japan
Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:02pm EDT PARIS, June 19 (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp has signed a contract with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd to begin work on a final assembly and checkout plant (FACO) for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in Japan, the top U.S. arms maker said on Wednesday. Steve O'Bryan, Lockheed vice president of the $392 billion F-35 program, announced the contract agreement at ...
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Asian stocks mixed ahead of Fed announcement Nikkei rallies on exports
Asian stocks were mixed on Wednesday ahead of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s speech later in the day. The U.S. Federal Reserve two-day meeting ends today and investors are looking for clues on the outlook for ...
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Japanese Exports to US Continue to Surge
Japan's exports to the United States rose for the fifth straight month in May on a year-on-year basis, surging 16.3 percent to 1.041 trillion yen ($10.96 billion), according to preliminary figures released by the Finance Ministry on June 19.The pace of growth in Japan's exports to the U.S. in May quickened from 14.8 percent in April and was much faster than the rate of increase in the ...
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Tokyo's new international airport making waves
Haneda airport was renamed Haneda International Airport with the opening of the new International Terminal, which will see several million passengers pass through it each year as the airport regains its status as a global airport with connections to major cities across the world.
When Haneda first opened in 1931 it was the largest civilian airport in the whole country and during the Second World War became a major US Air Base after the invasion of Japan and the country’s surrender. Read more
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