Sony executive in charge of online networking products to step down
IDG News Service (Tokyo Bureau) - Sony said Thursday that the executive in charge of its online products, and linking them up to its broad hardware holdings, will leave the company at the end of the ...
View ArticleBosch sells stake in Japans Denso for $1.4 billion
FRANKFURT/TOKYO (Reuters) - German auto parts supplier Bosch ROBG.UL said it sold its 5 percent stake in Japanese peer Denso (6902.T) for roughly 1.1 billion euros ($1.4 billion) to fund investments ...
View ArticleNikkei slumps on strong yen fears
(2 hrs 5 mins ago) Tokyo stocks closed down 1.51 percent on Thursday after a huge Wall Street sell-off as US President Barack Obama's re-election sparked fears of Washington deadlock while the ...
View ArticleTokyo takes dig at Chinas maritime power ambitions
(1 hr 33 mins ago) Beijing must carry use its sea power in a ';peaceful manner’’, Japan said, after President Hu Jintao staked a claim for China to become a maritime power. ...
View ArticleNikkei slumps at close
(48 mins ago) Stocks in Tokyo lost 1.51 percent after a Wall Street sell-off as US President Barack Obama's re-election sparked fears over Washington's fiscal deadlock, while the strong ...
View ArticleJapan tiremaker Bridgestone reports soaring profit recovering from 2011...
TOKYO -- Japanese tiremaker Bridgestone said Wednesday that its nine-month profit soared 41 percent, recovering after last year's quake-tsunami ...
View ArticleMitsubishi cuts Oakajee port project
Supporters of the Oakajee Port & Rail project were insisting today the ambitious development was not dead, after its owner Mitsubishi cut spending and two thirds of its staff were abolished. ...
View ArticleTokyo moves to fix Japans fiscal cliff Report
The reported deal comes after Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda last month warned large parts of Japanese public life would grind to a halt unless a deadlock was broken on the bill to let Tokyo issue new ...
View ArticleDuties levied on steel tubes from EU Japan
(25 mins ago) China said Thursday it was imposing duties on steel tube imports from the European Union and Japan as it concluded an investigation into products it says were sold at prices below ...
View ArticleVogue Hommes Japan folds
Men's style bible Vogue Hommes Japan will cease publication following its autumn/winter 2012 issue. The magazine was launched in September 2008 as the Japanese counterpart to the long-running ...
View ArticleAsia stocks drop as U.S. fiscal issues loom
Asia stocks dropped on Thursday, as the conclusion of the U.S. election stoked fears about upcoming fiscal challenges for Washington and potential fallout for Asian ...
View ArticleJapan to make F35 parts under relaxed arms ban
Japan will allow domestic firms to take part in production of the F-35 fighter, the first such case since Tokyo last year relaxed a self-imposed ban on arms exports, a report said ...
View ArticleJapan says China must use sea power peacefully
Japan called on China Thursday to use its sea power peacefully, after President Hu Jintao staked a claim in Beijing for his country to become a maritime ...
View ArticlePublic data conceals true power of far-reaching Japanese economy
Liu is known to have confessed to the Seoul police that he threw the firebombs at the embassy out of anger, believing that the Japanese government ...
View ArticleJapan rue Darvishs absence
It would have been useful to have viewpoints from other East Asian nations, such as Japan, Korea, or Vietnam. Nevertheless, this is a fine collection ...
View ArticleJapans Sharp enters Russias mobile phone market
MOSCOW, November 8 (Itar-Tass) - Japan's Sharp Company, which is known in Russia as maker of consumer electronics and household appliances, is launching the sale of smartphones on the Russian ...
View ArticleResidents near Futenma file base noise lawsuit
NAHA, Okinawa Pref. — Residents living near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa sued for damages Thursday for excessive noise ...
View ArticleDiet takes up bond bill as LDP caves in
After months of hardball between the ruling and opposition blocs, Diet deliberations on the crucial bond-issuance bill kicked off Thursday, paving the way for its ...
View ArticleDPJ mulls shift to center for election
"We will preserve a great postwar tradition and bring together moderate forces," DPJ Deputy Secretary General Jun Azumi told a group of Japanese Trade Union Federation (Rengo) officials at ...
View Article‘Tortured’ Nepali exposes Japanese justice
Tokyo - A Nepalese migrant worker who spent 15 years in a Japanese jail for a murder he did not commit claims he was tortured while incarcerated and has urged Tokyo to reform its police and prison ...
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