Japan

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Core machinery orders fell 3.7% in January after unusually strong growth in December, suggesting a full-fledged recovery in business investment is still some way off. ...

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(Kyodo) _ North Korea has agreed to lease a pier at Rajin port, close to the border with China and Russia, to a Chinese company for 10 years, giving three northeastern Chinese provinces... ...

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Tokyo, Kanto, Japan Don't really know where to start with Tokyo. Spent the first few days walking round wondering what was going on. It's brilliant but it's so strange. We've done a lot of walking around and have seen a lot of the city so far, that's all we can do as it's so bloody expensive! We've walked round shinjuku, shibuya, ginza, shimbashi, asasuka which is where we're staying, and ueno (and probably more places i've forgot). Asasuka's quite cool as it's only 20 minutes on the rattler into town but it's much quieter (and cheaper) than the city which is just 100mph all the time. There's also quite a big temple here called senso-ji which we visited. I think it's one of the more well known temples in tokyo and it was right on our doorstep which was handy. Ueno's not far as well and that's quite a nice place, it had a nice park we walked round with lots of museums, street musicians, performers etc. which was fun. The city just seems mental though. Flashing lights are everywhere, it's freezing/raining/snowing so literally everyone here seems to be carrying umbrella's, all the girls under the age of 25 dress like brass, the guys dress really weirdly, they're well into fashion here, everyone over the age of 40 seems to be in the arcades playing pachinko, which for those of us not lucky enough to be able to afford to watch united in tokyo is a pinball-arcade type game with loads of ball-bearings an ...

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Lifetime sales for PS3 and Xbox 360 are also included. ...

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(Kyodo) _ Bank of Japan Policy Board member Miyako Suda warned Wednesday against the nation's massive state debt, saying such a structural problem poses a threat to economic activities if ...

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Australian police searched two anti-whaling ships at the request of Japanese authorities on Saturday, seizing log books and videos, after activists called a halt to their turbulent harassment campaign. Police boarded the Sea Shepherd group's Steve Irwin and Bob Barker ships as they were greeted by well-wishers in Tasmania, but refused to reveal the reasons for the search warrant. read more ...

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The sightings were all reported in the Mayama mountain district of Osaki city in Miyagi prefecture, a community of 441 households, located about 350 kilometres north of Tokyo. The city has received about 30 reports of "kangaroo-like animals", including three cases since December, when the mountain area was often covered in snow, said local official Tetsuya Sasaki. read more ...

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* GPIF decides to keep current allocation model -Nikkei * Model calls for a 67 pct weighting in JGBs * GPIF holds assets of $1.4 trln, larger than GDP of India (Adds comparisons with Calpers, debate on higher returns) By Chikafumi Hodo TOKYO, March 10 (Reuters) - Japan's public pension fund, the world's largest, will not change its asset allocation model for the next five years after the Health Ministry urged the fund to keep investing in safe assets, the Nikkei business daily reported. The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) holds assets of about $1.4 trillion, larger than the gross domestic product of India, and is a major force in financial markets, particularly the Japanese... ...

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R&B SINGER JOE BRINGS SHOTA (Japan’S NEWEST R&B SINGER) BY THE STUDIOS TO VISIT LENNY GREEN DURING “KISSING AFTER DARK” AT WRKS/KISS-FM IN NEW YORK. Photo by... (this is a summary of the story, click title for the full story on www.radiofacts.com) ...

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(2010-03-09) YOKOHAMA, Japan, BUSINESS WIRE — ArcSoft, Inc., a leading provider of innovative multimedia technologies and applications, will be presenting its Embedded Imaging Technologies at the 2010 Camera and Photo I ...

Source: www.euronews24.org --- 1 hour ago
TOKYO – Japan's core private-sector machinery orders, a leading indicator of corporate capital spending, fell 3.7 percent in January from the previous month, official data showed Wednesday.The drop reversed a robust 20.1 percent rise in December, which followed an 11.3 percent fall in November.The core orders from manufacturing companies rose 3.3 percent month-on-month in January while tho Japan machinery orders fall 3.7 percent in January ...

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* GPIF holds assets of $1.4 trln, larger than GDP of India (Adds comparisons with Calpers, debate on higher returns) ...

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Kyushu University and PicoCELA Inc ., both based in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, have developed and put into use technology to build a wide-area wireless LAN at a dramatically reduced cost. The newly developed wireless multihop backhaul connects multiple wireless LAN access points to make them work with one another as a single radio network, cutting back on installation costs by reducing wiring for Internet connection. Wireless access points were installed in the commercial complex Canal City Hakata, resulting in the successful operation of one of the world’s largest indoor wireless multihop backhauls (with a relay of up to 11 access points). Background PicoCELA was set up for the purpose of commercializing the fruits of the MIMO-MESH Project led by Professor Hiroshi Furukawa of the Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, the Graduate School, Kyushu University. The project is part of the “Silicon Sea Belt Fukuoka Project” promoted by the Fukuoka prefectural government to build an East Asian belt of advanced semiconductor R&D sites. It is funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (under the Knowledge Cluster Creation Project Phase 2 program) and the Fukuoka Industry, Science and Technology Foundation (Fukuoka IST). The new wide-area wireless LAN was built as one of government-commissioned undertakings to do demonstration experiments in three area: technology for building a wi ...

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According to the Wired News, Sony’s new PSP-3000 model had a good start in Japan with first-week sales of 141,270 units. Really? I don’t think so. The PSP-3000 was officially released on 16-Oct-2008, Thursday. I was in Japan that week, staying at a hotel in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Everyday, I always passed by one of the biggest electonic [...] ...

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“New York Highway”, a pure car carrier owned by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (hereinafter called “K” Line) and Taiyo Nippon Kisen Kaisha, Ltd., arrived at the port of Muroran in Hokkaido, Japan on March 9, 2010 and completed her final duties as a car carrier. She was built in 1985 by Oshima Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. and has been employed in the transport of a huge number of completed cars throughout the world in her 156 voyages. This “swan song” voyage to Muroran was her 157th voyage but without cargo, just to transport herself to the port for a new duty involving the development of a modern ship recycling system in Japan. The recycling system is a pilot project organized by Maritime Bureau of MLITT (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transportation and Tourism) in Japan, The Japanese Ship Owners’ Association (JSA) had requested its member companies to offer ships to the pilot project from an early stage. After the Maritime Bureau’s official invitation to the project, “K” Line, a member of JSA, nominated the “New York Highway” and contracted the sale of the vessel to Teraoka Co., Ltd., a member of Muroran Ship Recycling Study Group which was awarded the project by Maritime Bureau. The management of the group will be done by Japan Marine Science Inc. and Teraoka Co. Ltd. with other members executing the project. Dismantling of ships tends to be carried out in developing countries where labor cost is low and demand for scrap steel is strong ...

Source: www.digitalworldtokyo.com --- 2 hours ago
Tokyo, March 10, 2010 - NEC announced today that UQ Communications has expanded its WiMAX service with NEC’s base stations. UQ Communications has revised its WiMAX base station installation plan for... ...

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Enterbrain the publisher of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu has released life-to-date sales figures for the Nintendo NTDOY Wii and Sony SNE PlayStation 3 in Japan.As it has elsewhere the Wii has dominated the generation selling 9048012 units. Sony has sold only 4020563 PS3s but is currently the top selling home console in the country.Read the rest of this story &#187See AlsoSony PS3 Stealing Share From Wii Xbox NTDOY SNE MSFTSony Nintendo And Microsoft Consoles Post Big Holiday Sales SNE MSFT NTDOYDont Believe The Hype -- Nintendo Is Doing Just Fine NTDOY SNE MSFT ...