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Japans Nikkei rises 0.3 in opening minutes
NASDAQ traded symbols and their current financial status. Intraday data delayed 15 minutes for Nasdaq, and 20 minutes for other exchanges. S&P/Dow Jones Indices (SM) from Dow Jones & Company, Inc. SEHK intraday data is provided by SIX Financial Information and is at least 60-minutes delayed. All quotes are in local exchange ...
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Japan Hotel trading and investment market likely to exhibit further improvements.
Jones Lang LaSalle releases Hotel Intelligence Japan 2013 research report.Jones Lang LaSalle's Hotels & Hospitality Group is pleased to announce that Hotel Intelligence Japan 2013 has been released today. ...
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Japans Nikkei set to rise ahead of BOJ meeting
TOKYO, May 22 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei average is likely to open higher on Wednesday, ahead of the outcome of the Bank of Japan meeting, buoyed by the U.S. Dow Jones and S&P 500 indexes closing at record highs on Federal Reserve officials' reassurance on the central bank's stimulus programme. The Nikkei is likely to trade between 15,350 and 15,550, strategists said, while Nikkei ...
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Accenture Secures Tokyo Govt Job
( ) has secured a big job order from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government ("TMG"). As per the new task order, Accenture has been entrusted by TMG with the responsibility of recruiting 10 or more foreign companies to establish their Asian regional headquarters or research and development (R&D) centers in Tokyo's Special Zone by the end of Mar 2014. By using its management ...
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PARC Expands Japan Presence With New Tokyo Office
Tokyo business to continue its successful work in the region. PARC delivers custom R&D, Innovation Services, technology, expertise, best practices, and intellectual property, and works with Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, startups, and government agencies. PARC recently ...
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Prepping for the BOJ Nikkei
After rising to its highest level since 2008, the Nikkei traded sideways on Tuesday ahead oif the BOJ meeting tomorrow. The BOJ is not expected to alter policy after its enormous injection of stimulus at the April meeting. This makes BOJ Governor Kuroda's comments after the meeting at 0730 BST/ 0230 ET, even more important. Traders will be trying to gauge from Kuroda 1, the BOJ's view ...
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Dow Jones industrial average posts 22nd high of the year
Federal Reserve presidents and sent the Dow Jones industrial average to its 22nd high of the year Tuesday. Regional Fed Presidents James Bullard ...
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Bank of Japan may seek to ease bond market jitters policy seen on hold
Reuters © Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda arrives at the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Aylesbury, southern England May 10, 2013. REUTERS/Alastair ...
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Japan Rate Decision On Tap For Wednesday
The Bank of Japan is on Wednesday scheduled to conclude its monetary policy meeting and then announce its decision on interest rates, highlighting a modest day for Asia-Pacific economic activity. The BoJ is widely expected to hold rates at 0.10 percent, although some additional stimulus may be introduced.Japan also will see April figures for imports, exports and trade balance. Imports are ...
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Cardiffs Bradley Davies picked to captain Wales on tour to Japan
Bradley Davies, of Cardiff Blues, has been named as Wales captain for the tour of Japan after a period in the wilderness. Photograph: Alex Livesey/Getty ...
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Sony to assess spin-off proposal for entertainment business Nikkei
(Reuters) - Sony Corp is considering evaluating a proposal from top shareholder Third Point LLC to spin off part of its movie and music business, Japanese daily Nikkei ...
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In Japan Citizen Radiation-Tracking Project Goes Big Time
A post-Fukushima effort to crowdsource radiation data in Japan has since become the largest source of radiation data in the country. And it’s now set to expand to other parts of the world. Catherine Winter reports from ...
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China-Japan trade will pick up report
/enpproperty--> Economic and trade cooperation between China and Japan will get back on track if there is no further deterioration of the countries' already strained ties, leading Chinese think tanks said in an annual report released on Tuesday. The row over ...
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Hashimoto brings South Korea into fray
South Korean soldiers were guilty of abusing women in wartime, Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) coleader and Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto said in comments reported Tuesday, days after provoking a storm by labeling sex slaves a military necessity. In a remark likely to fuel outrage and further stoke tensions in an already uneasy relationship, Hashimoto said the South Korean military ...
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Politics goes pop in ‘Arab Idol’ show
When speaking of Japanese art, people use words such as wabi and sabi, words that speak of a delicate sensibility and an ephemeral existence. Viewing the retrospective show of painter Toko Shinoda, the first word that comes to mind is ...
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Miike’s gore-filled flick panned at Cannes
CANNES DO ATTITUDE: Actors Takao Osawa (left) and Nanako Matsushita, and director Takashi Miike, arrive Monday for the screening of the film 'Shield of Straw' ('Wara no Tate') at the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in France. | ...
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Japan Basks In Its New Position As An Affordable Travel Destination
The difference a year can make: When I spoke with Yuki Tanaka, the Executive Director of the Japan National Tourism Organization in the U.S., last May, travel to Japan was just recovering from the a drastic decline following the March 11, 2011 Sendai earthquake and a close call with disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. What's more, tourism to Japan was also facing a structural ...
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Experts urge Japan watchdog to delay decision on closure of nuclear plant over seismic fault
TOKYO - Experts commissioned by the operator of a Japanese nuclear plant that faces possible closure because of a suspected active seismic fault say a decision should wait, citing insufficient data. Tuesday's request came a day before Japan's nuclear watchdog is to rule on the future of the Tsuruga No. 2 reactor in western Japan. The watchdog's own panel said last week that the ...
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Learn from Japan the dangers of half measures
economy is being held back by fiscal austerity, low confidence and tight credit conditions. "Deep challenges persist in its financial system. Without sustained and significant reforms, a decade of stagnation threatens," Carney said in the prepared text of a speech he was delivering in Montreal. "Europe can draw lessons from Japan on the dangers of half measures," he said, ...
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Finnair Cargo Expands Air Freight Capacity for Brussels Tokyo
will add more air freight capacity to and from Brussels, starting June 6.In addition to the MD-11 freighter service between Helsinki and Brussels on Saturdays and Sundays, Finnair's passenger flight to and from Brussels on Thursday mornings will now be flown with an Airbus A340 aircraft."This enables us to offer fast transport between Central Europe and Asia also for large ...
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Japan to launch new rocket with satellite on Aug. 22
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will launch the country's new solid-fuel rocket Epsilon on Aug. 22, carrying a satellite whose mission is to observe Venus and Mars while orbiting Earth, the science ministry said ...
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X Japan waxes lyrical at Madame Tussauds debut
This Monday, members of the seminal metal band X Japan were in Odaiba rubbing shoulders with the likes of Brad Pitt, Lady Gaga and AKB48s Yuko Oshima. The catch? They were all made out of ...
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Teen sent to Japanese detention facility for setting fire to shrine
The 15-year-old son of a U.S. contractor assigned to Camp Zama will spend time in a Japanese juvenile detention facility for setting fire to a historic ...
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Japan draws up draft measures against cyberattacks
At a meeting of the government's panel on information security policies, members agreed on draft measures that include a special unit for cyberdefense within the Self-Defense ...
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Sex slavery row costs Hashimoto electoral cooperation
The small opposition Your Party decided Tuesday to cancel planned electoral cooperation with the Japan Restoration Party, following controversial remarks by its co-head and Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto concerning wartime sexual ...
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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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