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Sony sues Imation over unlicensed Blu-Ray disc technology
Sony Corp. and three other companies that helped invent Blu-Ray movie and data discs have sued Imation Corp., claiming the data-storage company broke patent laws by selling unlicensed blank recordable versions of the discs. Oakdale-based Imation violated several patents related to Blu-Ray technology, Sony and the other consumer electronics makers said in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court ...
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Japan to host world conference on disaster risk reduction next year - UN
Print 23 May 2013 – Japan will host the world conference slated to be held next year at which countries will adopt the successor to the current global blueprint for disaster risk reduction efforts, it was announced today at a United Nation forum on the issue that wrapped up in Geneva. The 10-year Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) came out of the world conference held in Kobe, Hyogo, ...
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U.S. investors shrug off big fall in Japanese stocks
All eyes are on Asian markets overnight to see if the one-day selloff stops there Fears a stock selloff in the land of the rising sun would cause the sunset of the U.S. bull market proved to be unfounded. U.S. investors with their fingers perched on the sell button after waking up to news of a 7% selloff of Japan's Nikkei 225 index button found that what happens in Asia, at least this time, ...
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Network18 sells 80 stake in Webchutney to Japanese firm Dentsu India
Capital18 has sold 80 per cent stake in digital agency Webchutney to a leading Japanese firm for an undisclosed amount. Dentsu subsidiary in India, Dentsu Media and Holdings India (DMHI), has reached an agreement with venture capital ...
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Talking Japan the U.S. and the economy at the Duquesne Club
Matthew Goodman, William E. Simon Chair of Political Economy at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, discusses the economies of the U.S., Japan and China at the Duquesne Club. To frame his discussion about the economies of the United States, Japan and China, Matthew Goodman from the Center for Strategic and International Studies noted that on Thursday morning U.S. media were ...
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Japans weak currency means tourism
The number of tourists coming to Japan dropped dramatically after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. But between the weak currency and fading memories of the disaster, tourism saw a record high last ...
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Japanese official discussion finished for resuming talks with N. Korea
Japanese official: discussion finished for resuming talks with N. Korea . MAY 24, 2013 06:01. . Isao Iijima, an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said Thursday that when he visited North Korea last week, he finished working-level talks for the proposed resumption of negotiations for establishing formal diplomatic relations between the two countries. His remark suggested that ...
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Sony board examines hedge fund spin-off plan
(MENAFN - Arab News) Sony chief Kazuo Hirai said Wednesday the company was examining a hedge fund proposal to sell off part of its entertainment unit in a bid to boost profits in its core business. Hirai told a press conference board members have started discussing the idea raised by key shareholder Daniel Loeb, whose investment fund Third Point suggested spinning off as much as 20 percent of ...
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Japans ANA to resume Dreamliner flights Sunday
Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) on Thursday said it would put its Dreamliner fleet back into service this weekend, several days ahead of schedule. ANA, the single biggest operator of Boeing's flagship 787, plans to use the high-tech planes for two domestic flights from Chitose airport in Hokkaido to Haneda in Tokyo, earlier than its original plan for June 1. "Modifications for ...
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Veteran fears beginning of the end for Japan as bond market buckles
Yields on 10-year Japanese bonds (JGBs) have doubled in a month and spiked dramatically to 1pc on Thursday, triggering a 7.3pc crash in the Nikkei stock index. It was the biggest one-day fall since the tsunami two years ago, comparable with wild moves seen at the height of the Asian crisis in 1998. The contagion effect set off a retreat from stocks across the world, though Wall Street later ...
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Panel English should be regular primary class
A council directly under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has recommended English become a regular subject at primary schools, as part of efforts to rejuvenate the national education ...
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The market freak-out over Japan today was premature
because of "the unreasonable increase in the volatility of long-term rates." If debt-servicing costs go wild, Japan will have lost its chance to grow out of two lost decades. "There's a window in time where there's room to make the necessary adjustments [i.e. structural reforms]," said Ken Courtis, managing director of Starfort Holdings, at a World Economic ...
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Japanese distiller aims to revolutionise whisky drinking
whisky drinkers, and until recently that meant holing up in a small, dark den designed for serious drinking. But the country's leading distiller has been revolutionising drinking culture with the aid of a pint glass and a more than generous slug of soda.The whisky highballs introduced by Suntory, the privately owned Japanese drinks conglomerate that has the lion's share of the ...
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A look at weekend Thoroughbred racing
The Memorial Day weekend kicks off summer and, with no Triple Crown hopes to extend the spring, also kicks off a "second season" of racing. There are important turf races at Churchill Downs, Belmont Park, Hollywood Park and Arlington Park. Some of the nation's top steeds will be on display in the Grade I Met Mile at Belmont. Fillies and mares are in action from coast to coast and ...
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Kenya Envoy Japan seeking closer ties with Kenya
Japan will scale up its operations in the country by drafting stout policy frameworks and constructing developmental projects to accelerate growth in Kenya. Japanese ...
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Streamlined News Japans World Team Racing Together This Weekend
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 23. MOST of the members of Japan's world championship swim team will race this weekend at the Japan Open in Kanagawa, one of the few meets the team will race in together before heading to Barcelona. On the men's side, Kosuke Hagino will be the busiest swimmer, scheduled to race in four events. He is slated to swim five individual events in the world ...
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Sony Masterworks Salutes 20th-century Musical Visionaries
It's been a century since Igor Stravinksy's The Rite of Spring ushered in an age of radical musical transformation that changed the face of music. A succession of great twentieth century composers went on to create music that transcended tradition and moved the art form in a direction unlike anything the world had heard before. Now Sony Masterworks celebrates these musical visionaries ...
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Don’t be afraid of color says this Japanese makeup artist
SADA, Nars International lead makeup stylist backstage during 2013 Fashion Week Few imagined a boy from rural Japan would grow up to be a globetrotting makeup stylist save perhaps for Sadafumi Ito, Nars International's makeup stylist. Ito was recently in the country to launch the Nars 2013 Summer Collection. Sada contributed to the Nars backstage artistry team during New York Fashion Week, ...
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80-year-old Japanese man scales Everest sets record
KATMANDU--An 80-year-old Japanese climber reached the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday, becoming the oldest person to scale the world's highest mountain, his website and a Nepalese official ...
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World markets roiled by Nikkeis 7.3-percent dip
LONDON/HONG KONG--Financial markets around the world were roiled Thursday after Japanese stocks suffered their biggest slide since the country was hit by a devastating tsunami more than two years ...
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Birds Of Tokyo announce Cairns show with chance to win tickets
The ARIA Award-winning Perth five-piece are arguably Australia's hottest live rock outfit this year, enjoying a massive run of success off the back of their new album March Fires, which debuted at No. 1 in March and has produced the hit singles Lanterns and This Fire, alongside their latest effort When the Night Falls Quiet.Landing in Cairns and Townsville on the eve of their show at the ...
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The 4 hedge funders losing big in the Japan rout
There's one big winner, too. FORTUNE -- The "Abe Trade" just hit a major bump. Toward the end of last year, a number of large hedge funds began piling into Japan. Driving the bet was the country's new prime minister Shinzo Abe, who said he favored flooding Japan's markets with cash from its central bank in order to finally pull its economy out of its perpetual slump. ...
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Japan ETFs Vulnerable After Nikkei Topix Slide
ETFs tracking Japan, the world's third-largest economy, slumped Thursday in U.S. trade after a late-session slide sent Japanese shares tumbling to their worst one-day performance in more than two years during Thursday's Asian session. Japan's Nikkei 225 plunged 5.5% while the Topix Index slid 6.9% after HSBC's flash reading of China's Purchasing Managers' Index for ...
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IAEA Delivers Final Report to Japan After Initial Review of Plans to Decommission Fukushima Daiichi
Two IAEA experts examine recovery work on top of Unit 4 of TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on 17 April 2013 as part of a mission to review Japan's plans to decommission the facility. (Photo: G. ...
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Navy releases audio of collision between destroyer tanker
The U.S. Navy has released audio of conversations as the destroyer USS Porter collided with a Japanese tanker in the Gulf of Hormuz last year. The Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, Va., obtained the audio under a Freedom of Information Act request. The audio and the Porter's log shows the vessel performing a risky maneuver, passing in front of another vessel's bow in the dark in ...
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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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