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Google Teams With Intel, Sony On New Tv Platform Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 March 2010
San Francisco - Tired of flipping through hundreds of cable channels to find something to watch? Google may be able to help you. The web search giant has teamed up with Intel, Sony and Logitech to dev...
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Japanese Stocks Drop On Profit-taking Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Tokyo - Japanese stocks edged down in Thursday morning trading as investors sold shares to lock in profits after the previous day's eight-week closing high. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average lost...
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Ibm Says It Paid Japan Taxes In Full, Will Appeal Assessment Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 March 2010
March 18 (Bloomberg) -- International Business Machines Corp.’s Japan unit said it will appeal an assessment by the country’s tax authority, after the Asahi newspaper reported the company ...
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Mitsubishi Electric To Launch New "pv Series" Intelligent Power Modules For Solar... Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503) announced today the launch of its new "PV Series" intelligent power modules (IPM), mainly for use in residential photovoltaic (PV) inverters. The six model...
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Google teams with Intel, Sony on new TV platform Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Tired of flipping through hundreds of cable channels to find something to watch? Google may be able to help you.
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U.s., Japan Begin Discussions On Security Issues Including Nuclear Umbrella Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 March 2010
WASHINGTON — The United States and Japan have started formal discussions on a wide range of security issues, including the U.S. nuclear umbrella and missile defense, a senior U.S. official told...
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Ibm Japan Group Allegedly Failed To Declare 400 Bil. Yen In Income+ Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 March 2010
TOKYO, March 18 (AP) - (Kyodo)—(EDS: TO BE LED) The IBM Japan Ltd. group is suspected of failing to declare more than 400 billion yen in income, sources familiar with the case said Thursday....
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Tokyo Stocks Open Lower On Selling For Quick Gains After Rally+ Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 March 2010
TOKYO, March 18 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Tokyo stocks opened lower Thursday with investors taking quick profits after the key Nikkei index rose sharply the previous day to finish at an eight-week high. ...
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Visitors Take In Kobe's Night View With A Starry Sky Appearing Overhead In The Observation... Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 March 2010
KOBE--Things are looking up for visitors to the renovated Kobe Port Tower. Starting Friday, the tower's fifth-level observatory will offer a view of both the city below and the stars above. ...
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Internet Posts Held To Libel Standards Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 March 2010
The Supreme Court has ruled that individuals posting comments on the Internet must be held to the same standards for criminal libel as writers in other forms of media. The unprecedented ruling me...
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Renault, Daimler In Tie-up Talks Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 March 2010
France's Renault SA and German automaker Daimler AG have begun negotiations on a possible partnership, sources said. Nissan Motor Co. could become involved because Renault already has capital tie...
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Boj To Double Fund Injection Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 March 2010
The Bank of Japan decided Wednesday to expand the scale of a fixed-rate fund supply operation it started in December to 20 trillion yen ($222 billion), or double the current amount. The central b...
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Drug Makers Focus On Overseas Sales Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Facing a potential crisis from the "2010 problem" of expiring drug patents and a sluggish domestic market, second-tier pharmaceutical companies are bolstering their overseas sales strategies. Thi...
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Dai-ichi Ipo To Breathe New Life Into Stock Market Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 March 2010
The biggest initial public offering in Japan in more than a decade is expected to bring 1 million or more new investors to the stock market and pump 1 trillion yen ($11.1 billion) in cash payouts into...
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Moment Of Truth For Ldp Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Is this the beginning of the end, or just a phase that will eventually lead to a rebirth? Whatever the case, now is the moment of truth for the Liberal Democratic Party. Having fallen from power ...
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Rush For Rare Metals Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 March 2010
The availability of rare metals used in everyday products will inevitably run short, causing a heated scramble for supplies. This underscores the need for ways to retrieve and recycle these materials,...
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Npb/ Giants 'new Kid' Gonzalez Puts On Show Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Newcomer Edgar Gonzalez smacked a two-run homer and doubled in another run to back a solid outing by starter Shugo Fujii as the Yomiuri Giants topped the Hiroshima Carp 6-1 on Wednesday afternoon in p...
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Japan All-industry Business Conditions Ease In Q1 Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 March 2010
(RTTNews) - An index measuring business conditions among corporations with capital of 1 billion yen or more was down 2.4 percent in the first quarter of 2010 compared to the previous three months, th...
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Us Lawmakers Wowed By Japan Bullet Train Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 March 2010
House Foreign Affairs subcommittee Asia, contrasted Japan's trains with the United States' own troubled network. "The fact of the matter is Japan is about 100 years in advance as far a...
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Japanese Scientists Build World's Fastest Scanner Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 March 2010
demonstrating a scanner that uses revolutionary chip technology to scan a 200 page book in just a minute.Masatoshi Ishikawa, a professor at the University of Tokyo, and lab members Takashi Nakashim...
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