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Historians tour Takeshima hit Japan
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
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GLOBAL MARKETS-Asian stocks shaky Nikkei still seen vulnerable
Fri May 24, 2013 12:22am EDT * Nikkei down 0.6 pct, erases earlier gains * Asian stocks outside Japan dip to 1-month lows * Yen rises vs USD and euro as Nikkei trims gains By Ian Chua SYDNEY, May 24 (Reuters) - Japanese stocks turned negative on Friday and the yen reversed early losses, keeping intact worries that the Nikkei's largest one-day drop in two years may be the start of a bigger ...
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Japans Own Worst Enemy - By Tobias Harris
Obama to redouble efforts to shutter Gitmo, reduce drone strikes; Rosa Brooks wants POTUS in her classroom; Horror in the U.K.; Is Jon Stewart goading the WH on the VA?; Hagel: build a better software program; and a little bit more. - by Gordon ...
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Fleeting Japan scare proves its all about the Fed
'Euro crisis doesn't matter. Japan doesn't matter. China doesn't matter' NEW YORK -- Thursday had all the makings of an ugly, ugly day on Wall Street. Japan's stock market suffered a mini-crash, plunging more than 7%. A reading on China manufacturing came in soft, sending shivers down the spines of investors already concerned that weak global growth will weaken ...
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Tokyo’s Stock Sel-Off Isn’t a Repudiation of Abenomics
sell-off was no great cause for concern. The 7.3 percent drop in the Nikkei 225 Stock Average on May 23 was the steepest one-day decline since the earthquake in the spring of 2011. Amari is right: Japanese policy has changed for the better, and the drop in stock prices isn't a repudiation. But it is a reminder that nervous markets are always capable of springing surprises and that ...
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Yen higher after Japan stocks sell-off
THE yen has gained amid a sharp sell-off of Japanese stocks while the US dollar has fallen against the euro after Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke cautioned not to expect policy tightening at least for a few ...
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Analyst Suggests Caution on Popular Japan ETF
ETFs focused on the world's third-largest economy are tumbling today. That group includes the WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund ...
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Nikkei set to rebound from Thursdays 7.3 pct plunge
TOKYO, May 24 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average is expected to rebound on Friday after a 7.3-percent dive in the previous session, its biggest one-day percentage drop in two years after weak Chinese factory data rattled investors. Despite Thursday's plunge, the Nikkei is still up 67 percent since mid-November, when Shinzo Abe, who became prime minister the following month, ...
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Japan to host world conference on disaster risk reduction next year - UN
Print 23 May 2013 – Japan will host the world conference slated to be held next year at which countries will adopt the successor to the current global blueprint for disaster risk reduction efforts, it was announced today at a United Nation forum on the issue that wrapped up in Geneva. The 10-year Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) came out of the world conference held in Kobe, Hyogo, ...
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Talking Japan the U.S. and the economy at the Duquesne Club
Matthew Goodman, William E. Simon Chair of Political Economy at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, discusses the economies of the U.S., Japan and China at the Duquesne Club. To frame his discussion about the economies of the United States, Japan and China, Matthew Goodman from the Center for Strategic and International Studies noted that on Thursday morning U.S. media were ...
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Japans weak currency means tourism
The number of tourists coming to Japan dropped dramatically after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. But between the weak currency and fading memories of the disaster, tourism saw a record high last ...
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Japans ANA to resume Dreamliner flights Sunday
Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) on Thursday said it would put its Dreamliner fleet back into service this weekend, several days ahead of schedule. ANA, the single biggest operator of Boeing's flagship 787, plans to use the high-tech planes for two domestic flights from Chitose airport in Hokkaido to Haneda in Tokyo, earlier than its original plan for June 1. "Modifications for ...
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Veteran fears beginning of the end for Japan as bond market buckles
Yields on 10-year Japanese bonds (JGBs) have doubled in a month and spiked dramatically to 1pc on Thursday, triggering a 7.3pc crash in the Nikkei stock index. It was the biggest one-day fall since the tsunami two years ago, comparable with wild moves seen at the height of the Asian crisis in 1998. The contagion effect set off a retreat from stocks across the world, though Wall Street later ...
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Panel English should be regular primary class
A council directly under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has recommended English become a regular subject at primary schools, as part of efforts to rejuvenate the national education ...
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A look at weekend Thoroughbred racing
The Memorial Day weekend kicks off summer and, with no Triple Crown hopes to extend the spring, also kicks off a "second season" of racing. There are important turf races at Churchill Downs, Belmont Park, Hollywood Park and Arlington Park. Some of the nation's top steeds will be on display in the Grade I Met Mile at Belmont. Fillies and mares are in action from coast to coast and ...
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Kenya Envoy Japan seeking closer ties with Kenya
Japan will scale up its operations in the country by drafting stout policy frameworks and constructing developmental projects to accelerate growth in Kenya. Japanese ...
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Streamlined News Japans World Team Racing Together This Weekend
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 23. MOST of the members of Japan's world championship swim team will race this weekend at the Japan Open in Kanagawa, one of the few meets the team will race in together before heading to Barcelona. On the men's side, Kosuke Hagino will be the busiest swimmer, scheduled to race in four events. He is slated to swim five individual events in the world ...
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World markets roiled by Nikkeis 7.3-percent dip
LONDON/HONG KONG--Financial markets around the world were roiled Thursday after Japanese stocks suffered their biggest slide since the country was hit by a devastating tsunami more than two years ...
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Birds Of Tokyo announce Cairns show with chance to win tickets
The ARIA Award-winning Perth five-piece are arguably Australia's hottest live rock outfit this year, enjoying a massive run of success off the back of their new album March Fires, which debuted at No. 1 in March and has produced the hit singles Lanterns and This Fire, alongside their latest effort When the Night Falls Quiet.Landing in Cairns and Townsville on the eve of their show at the ...
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The 4 hedge funders losing big in the Japan rout
There's one big winner, too. FORTUNE -- The "Abe Trade" just hit a major bump. Toward the end of last year, a number of large hedge funds began piling into Japan. Driving the bet was the country's new prime minister Shinzo Abe, who said he favored flooding Japan's markets with cash from its central bank in order to finally pull its economy out of its perpetual slump. ...
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Tokyo shares plummet by 7.3 percent in biggest fall since tsunami
TOKYO -- Panicky investors dumped shares on the Tokyo market Thursday, sending the main index plunging more than seven percent on weak Chinese data after months of sharp ...
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IAEA Delivers Final Report to Japan After Initial Review of Plans to Decommission Fukushima Daiichi
Two IAEA experts examine recovery work on top of Unit 4 of TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on 17 April 2013 as part of a mission to review Japan's plans to decommission the facility. (Photo: G. ...
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Japan’s Nikkei Index Falls 7.3 for Several Reasons Europe and U.S. Indexes Dip after Japanese Nosedive JPMorgan Voters Keep CEO Dimon
YahooFinance ) The Japanese stock market’s single-largest, one-day loss since the 2011 tsunami featured a 7.3 percent plunge yesterday that was blamed on lower-than-expected Chinese manufacturing figures for April, the Federal Reserve's lack of a clear message on continuing quantitative easing and spiking Japanese bond prices.Elsewhere in the Far East, markets generally pulled back. ...
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Japan vice econmin Thursday Nikkei plunge a temporary adjustment
Thursday's plunge in Tokyo stock prices represents a short-term pullback from recent gains, not a sign of doubt in Japan's economic policies, a senior government official ...
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Osaka court accepts losing horse racing bets as expenses
Osaka District Court accepted a claim on Thursday that losses on betting on horse racing should be deductible from payouts to calculate taxable ...
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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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