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Sanyo may cease to exist under Panasonic reorganization Nikkei
(Reuters) - Sanyo Electric Co may cease to exist under a reorganization by Panasonic Corp that includes global jobs cuts, Nikkei reported on Friday.Panasonic will cut 90 percent of Sanyo's global workforce of about 2,500 in around three years, the daily reported.About 1,000 workers at Sanyo's headquarters will be reduced to around 100 this fiscal year, leaving just a skeleton crew for ...
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Congressman Huelskamp discusses Kansas beef with Japanese ambassador
Congressman Tim Huelskamp, R-KS, was Ambassador Kenichiro Sasae’s guest at the residence of the ambassador of Japan. Japan recently raised the age cap on its beef imports from 20 months of age to 30 months. The U.S. Meat Export Federation projects this change will increase U.S. beef exports to Japan by 45 percent in 2013. Huelskamp issued the following statement: ';I’m ...
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Asias Week Japan Revives What of Japan Inc.
Tokyo's investment banking world is finally aflutter again. Perhaps the excitement has smokers reaching more often for their Mild Sevens: Japan Tobacco advised on Friday that cigarette sales volume rose 3.2% in April, year on year-this in a nation that is beginning to die off. The Abe government promises to roll out next month the third part of its growth push, a batch of reforms and ...
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Sony to name Chugai Pharmas CEO as chairman Nikkei
Chief Executive Osamu Nagayama as chairman, the Nikkei reported.Nagayama's appointment will be finalized on June 20 at a board meeting to be held immediately after a shareholders' meeting, the business daily said.Outgoing chairman Howard Stringer, who served as Sony's CEO between 2005 and 2012, will retire in June, the Japanese paper said. (Reporting by Aditi Shrivastava in ...
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S. Korea wants U.S. to stop using name Sea of Japan
South Korea has lodged a formal complaint with the U.S. Defense Department about the U.S. designation of the "East Sea" as the "Sea of Japan." The provocation was a news release from the 7th Fleet about the carrier U.S.S. Nimitz participating in a joint exercise earlier this week, the U.S. military newspaper Stars and Stripes reported Thursday. The release was rewritten to ...
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Japanese restaurant closes over health inspection score
A Lexington restaurant closed Wednesday after scoring a 59 on its Fayette County Health Department inspection.Yamamoto Japanese Grill & Sushi, 130 West Tiverton Way in south Lexington, was closed after a health department inspection cited it for violations including:■ Potentially hazardous food not date-marked■ Raw chicken thawing at room temperature■ Sushi chef preparing sushi without ...
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Sony PlayStation 4 Riding Wave Of Twice The Social Media Buzz Of New Microsoft Xbox
Sony was smart to get the head start on Microsoft in a next gen console battle that figures to be a two-company race, as Nintendo struggles to build momentum for Wii U. According to Jen Handley, COO and co-creator of Fizziology, PlayStation is currently seeing almost twice as much social chatter as the next gen Xbox. "Microsoft will have the upper hand after its official showcase next ...
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States to get initial money from Japanese gift
JUNEAU, Alaska -; West Coast states affected by debris from the 2011 tsunami in Japan are about to receive an initial $250,000 each from a $5 million gift from Japan for ...
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Japan PM aide in Beijing after Pyongyang trip
TOKYO (AFP) - An aide to Japan's premier said Friday he had held "sincere" talks with North Korean officials during his controversial visit to the country.Isao Iijima, a senior adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, was tightlipped about the subjects of his discussions when he arrived at the airport in Beijing."By visiting there, I was able to hold sincere talks for a ...
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Falling yen to make Japans goods more affordable
Attention, bargain-hunters around the world: Japanese goods - from cars to televisions - are going on sale.Credit Japan's drive to pump cash into its economy to stimulate growth. The extra money flooding its financial system is helping shrink the value of the yen. A U.S. dollar now buys about 100 yen. Last fall, it bought fewer than 80.When the yen's value falls, many Japanese goods ...
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Japan PM says shrine visits natural
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe defended in an interview Friday the right of Japan's leaders to visit a controversial shrine to war dead but hit back at critics who accuse him of revisionism.Amid the latest flare-up with China and South Korea over history, Abe quoted a US scholar as comparing the Yasukuni shrine to Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, which has a ...
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US slams Osaka mayor’s comments
Osaka's abrasive mayor on Friday hit back at US criticism of his remarks on wartime sex slavery, claiming US troops abused Japanese women during their seven-year occupation.Washington denounced as "outrageous" comments by Toru Hashimoto, who said "comfort women" forced to provide sex to Japanese troops during World War II were a military necessity."Mayor ...
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Nippon Ishin to oust member over South Korean prostitute claim
Translations of Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto’s remarks on Japan’s wartime sex slaves posted on Facebook by a women’s group have provoked heated reactions from all over the world. All Japan Obachan Party, a group set up by Osaka-based middle-aged women in November, translated Hashimoto’s ...
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Minds traumatized by disaster heal themselves
LONDON - One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded hit on Boxing Day 2004. The resulting tsunami devastated huge swaths of the Indian Ocean coastline and left an estimated quarter of a million people dead across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. Aid agencies quickly arrived to help battered and traumatised survivors. Mental health was a massive part of the emergency response but the ...
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Psychiatrists under fire in mental health battle
LONDON - It has the distinctly un-catchy, abbreviated title ';DSM-5,'; and is known to no one outside the world of mental health. But, even before its publication on May 22, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, psychiatry’s dictionary of disorders, has triggered a bitter row that stretches across the Atlantic and has fueled a profound debate about how ...
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Neocriminology identifying a murderer’s brain
Killer mind: Scans of a normal brain (left) and that of murderer Antonio Bustamante. He was spared the death penalty after a jury was shown these photos. | THE ...
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A glimpse inside the minds of sex slavery predators
Translations of Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto’s remarks on Japan’s wartime sex slaves posted on Facebook by a women’s group have provoked heated reactions from all over the world. All Japan Obachan Party, a group set up by Osaka-based middle-aged women in November, translated Hashimoto’s ...
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Boston suspect called victims ‘collateral damage’ for wars overseas
NEW YORK - Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a note before his capture in which he called the victims ';collateral damage'; for U.S. action in Afghanistan and Iraq, local media reported Thursday. ';When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims,'; Tsarnaev also scribbled on the inside wall of the boat where he hid from police during a massive manhunt in the ...
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LDP wants more might for SDF and Ospreys
The Liberal Democratic Party called Friday for a more muscular role for the Self-Defense Forces in defending Japan and fulfilling the nation’s responsibility as a U.S. ally. In its draft proposal for a 10-year defense outline, the party’s Defense and Security Committee says the SDF should be given more amphibious capabilities and equipped with the controversial Osprey transport ...
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Spy scandal casts shadow over Park win
Translations of Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto’s remarks on Japan’s wartime sex slaves posted on Facebook by a women’s group have provoked heated reactions from all over the world. All Japan Obachan Party, a group set up by Osaka-based middle-aged women in November, translated Hashimoto’s ...
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Game maker GungHo blows by rivals
GungHo Online Entertainment Inc.’s presence on the stock market has been growing rapidly on the growth of its monstrously popular smartphone game ';Puzzle and Dragons.'; After starting the year at ¥84,200, GungHo’s stock price had climbed to ¥1.26 million at Friday’s close on the Jasdaq. This brought its market value to ¥1.45 trillion, sending it past ...
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Live music therapy boosts fragile preemies
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
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As LDP rides high are factions biding time
In late April at an upscale hotel in Tokyo, more than 100 people thronged to have their photo taken with Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso. The fundraising party, organized by Ikokai, Aso’s faction in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, attracted more than 2,500 people, twice more than last year, when the LDP was the largest opposition force. ';We only had 12 members in my faction ...
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Skateboarders fight to save famed London spot
LONDON - Skateboarders soar out of the concrete bowl beneath London’s Southbank Center, as they have done for the past 40 years, while spectators drink beer and hip-hop beats stoke up the party atmosphere. But this is no party — it is a protest. These knights of the pavement are jousting with authorities to save one of the world’s most iconic skate parks from being converted ...
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Proposed fracking rules hit by green oil groups
No wrenching changes: Workers tend to a well head during a hydraulic fracturing operation at an Encana Oil & Gas facility outside Rifle, western Colorado, in March. | ...
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Japan focuses on next big export
Smart grids are the way of the future, according to a Japanese consortium of seven companies that want to invest in the cities of the future and pave the way for the next big export to come out of Japan.
Japan is already one of the leading high-tech industries of the world, producing gadgets and appliances that are sold globally, from cars and microwaves to robots for use in surgery, space and mines. The country is a major manufacturing hub, there are Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba and Nintendo appliances in homes across the globe and many of the world’s most famous export brands have their headquarters in Japan or were founded in Japan. Read more
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