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Softbank planning 400 billion yen bond sale - Nikkei
Mon May 20, 2013 2:50pm EDT (Reuters) - Softbank Corp (9984.T) is seeking to raise about 400 billion yen ($3.90 billion) through a sale of retail bonds to finance its bid for No.3 U.S. mobile phone carrier Sprint Nextel Corp (S.N), the Nikkei reported. The proceeds from the offering, which is expected to be launched as early as next month, will also be used for redeeming existing bonds, the ...
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Sony offers firstglimpse of PlayStation 4 in teaser video
Sony released the first images of the PlayStation 4 today in a short teaser video. Sony has promised that it is going to give PlayStation fans a full picture of its upcoming next-generation gaming console, the PlayStation 4, at the company's E3 press briefing June 10. But not wanting to miss out on any of ...
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Ex-EA CEO John Riccitiello Warns Sony And Microsoft Not To Forget Gamers
jockey for attention in the upcoming console war, it's easy to see this is a two-horse race. There is a console market, there are two major players releasing next-gen consoles, and one of them will win. There is one point of view that wonders whether both consoles might fail, because the era of dedicated gaming systems is coming to a close. That point of view of talks about the quickly ...
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Japan Govt. Says Economy Picking up Moderately
(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) Japan's government has upgraded its assessment of the Japanese economy for first time in two months, citing accelerating exports and the weakened yen. The Japanese Cabinet Office said in its monthly economic report for May that Japan's economy is picking up slowly. Last month, it said the economy was showing signs of recovery but still had some weak spots, ...
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Ian Reifowitz Hello Republicans Japan Switches to Stimulus Gets Growth Europe Sticks With Austerity Stays in Recession
right now in Japan and in Europe. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has embarked on aggressive measures to stimulate Japan's long-moribund economy since he took office in December, and the result so far has been strong growth -- and, perhaps, liftoff after a triple-dip recession. Europe, on the other hand, remains mired in the muck of austerity and economic contraction. To briefly recap ...
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Avoid excuses man up Obama tells black graduates
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Sunday summoned the graduates of historically black Morehouse College to ';transform the way we think about manhood,'; urging the young men to avoid the temptation to make excuses and to take responsibility for their families and their communities. Delivering a commencement address at the all-male private liberal arts college in Atlanta, Obama ...
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New Delhi cracks down on foreign-funded NGOs
';Outsider art'; is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene. Now, though, ';Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan,'; an exhibition on view (through June 30) ...
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Nissan Mitsubishi kick off joint minicar production
';I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
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Fukushima No. 1 can’t keep its head above tainted water
Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
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Economic assessment raised as weak yen fuels exports
Facts and figures: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and members of his Cabinet attend a ministerial meeting on the government's monthly economic report at the Prime Minister's Office on Monday. | ...
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Tornadoes level homes in Oklahoma one dead
Close for comfort: Jerry Dirks (right) hugs a friend after a tornado hit her home just south of Carney, Oklahoma, on Sunday. Dirks had taken refuge in her cellar at the time the tornado hit. | ...
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Skytree’s first anniversary marred by foul signals
Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
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Okinawa rally a call for existence without bases
Making their point: Participants in a rally Sunday in Ginowan, Okinawa, call for a peaceful prefecture free of military bases 41 years after its reversion to Japanese administration. | ...
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Tokyo hospital ready to conduct preventive mastectomies
Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
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Nadal too much for rival Federer in Italian Open final
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. ';Rafa was just ...
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Senators pull game back with double OT victory
OTTAWA - Colin Greening wore six stitches on his left cheek, and a wide smile, after Ottawa’s double overtime playoff victory against Pittsburgh. Greening ended the longest game of this year’s postseason with a backhander off a rebound 7:39 into the second OT, and the Senators’ 2-1 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins cut their series deficit to 2-1 on Sunday night. Daniel ...
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Sekizuka targets survival with Jubilo
IWATA, SHIZUOKA PREF. - New Jubilo Iwata manager Takashi Sekizuka was introduced to the media by the struggling J. League first division club on Monday. Sekizuka, who steered the Japanese men’s team to a fourth-place finish at last summer’s London Olympics, will take charge following Saturday’s away game against promoted Oita Trinita. Jubilo are currently 17th in the league. ...
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Spurs tear into Grizzlies in Game 1
SAN ANTONIO - The San Antonio Spurs opened the Western Conference finals resembling the past champions who’ve been there so many times before. The Memphis Grizzlies looked like the first-timers still trying to adapt to their first conference finals appearance. Tony Parker had 20 points and nine assists, Kawhi Leonard scored 18 points and the Spurs struck first by beating Memphis 105-83 ...
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Abe continues to be steadying force for Giants
The Yomiuri Giants have won the last 37 times Shinnosuke Abe has homered at Tokyo Dome. That’s an impressive streak, even if it is aided by a number of circumstances, not least of which the fact ...
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Hakuho Kisenosato move clear of Kakuryu
Yokozuna Hakuho and ozeki Kisenosato retained their perfect records through the ninth day at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament on Monday. Ozeki Kakuryu trails at 8-1 after suffering his first defeat of the tournament, while yokozuna Harumafuji, ozeki Kotoshogiku and eighth-ranked maegashira Tokitenku follow at 7-2. Hakuho couldn’t have had an easier day in the office against fourth-ranked ...
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Fear and incarceration from Kampala to Nagoya
Freedom, of sorts: Ssentamu speaks with The Japan Times in Nagoya in February. 'I must say, my detention in Japan was a worse experience than prison in Uganda,' he said. 'It changed me. I'm not the same person as I was before.' | STEPHEN ...
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Yokohama What do you think of the prime minister’s ‘Abenomic’ strategy so far
Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
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Precedent backs equal pay for equal work
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks -- for example, 25 ...
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Ambivalent Japan turns on its ‘insular’ youth
Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
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Apps to stay healthy hear the news and keep in touch
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks -- for example, 25 minutes work followed by a five-minute rest. There are number of Pomodoro apps available to alert you when it’s time to take a breather, but it ...
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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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