SoftBank Share Price Rebounds In Tokyo
SoftBank Corp (TYO: 9984) shares rose nearly 10 percent in Tokyo on Tuesday in heavy trading after the stock price lost nearly 20 percent since it announced it would acquire a controlling interest in ...
View ArticleOsaka restaurants expand into Arizona
former manager at one of the restaurants here , will partner with a local businessman to open the location. It's the chain's second venture outside of ...
View ArticleJapan Inc. nears record year of overseas MAs
Softbank, Japan's third-largest wireless carrier, said Monday it agreed to pay $20.1 billion to acquire about a 70 percent stake in Sprint. That would make it the country's biggest outbound ...
View ArticleSprint suitor Son stands apart in sober Japan
TOKYO — The Japanese billionaire behind a deal that will create the world's third-biggest mobile company spent his childhood in a slum, where he proudly rode in a stinking wheelbarrow ...
View ArticleJapanese sangaku paintings reveal the sacred side of maths | Alex Bellos
mathematics .Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the Japanese used to hang up pictures of maths theorems at their shrines.Called "sangaku", the pictures were both religious ...
View ArticleTV host angers Japanese with Fukushima joke
TOKYO — Japan has reacted angrily to a French television host who showed a composite picture of national team goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima with four arms and made a joke about the ...
View ArticleChina urges sincerity from Japan for negotiations
Spokesman Hong Lei with the Foreign Ministry made the remarks at a regular news briefing when asked to comment on reports of a planned joint military drill near the Okinawa between Japan and the ...
View ArticleSeoul presses for Japan’s wartime resp..
By Chung Min-uck Seoul urged Tokyo to acknowledge and compensate for the latter's sexual enslavement of Korean women during its colonial rule (1910-1945), describing it as a "crime ...
View ArticleChinese warships cross waters near Japan island
In this photo released by Japan's Joint Staff Office, a Chinese frigate sails in waters off the island of Yonaguni in Japan's Okinawa prefecture on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. Japanese aircraft ...
View ArticleImpressive Brazil beat Japan
Brazil gave one of their most impressive performances under coach Mano Menezes to sweep aside Japan 4-0 in Tuesday's friendly, with Neymar scoring twice and Kaka on target for the second game in ...
View ArticleUPDATE 1-Soccer-Japan angered by French TV hosts nuclear joke
nuclear crisis in Fukushima - "inappropriate". He added that the Japanese Embassy in France had sent a letter of protest to the TV station France 2. The letter said the remark ...
View ArticleImpressive Brazil demolish Japan 4-0 in friendly
Japan, unbeaten in their previous eight games, began confidently after beating France 1-0 in Paris on Friday but were ultimately outclassed on a cold, wet day in the Polish city of ...
View Article2 US sailors arrested in alleged rape in Japan
TOKYO -; Police say they have arrested two U.S. sailors in the alleged rape of a Japanese woman in Okinawa that has sparked a diplomatic ...
View ArticleNeymar Kaka lead Brazil past Japan in friendly
Brazil's Kaka, left, and Japan's Makoto Hasebe challenge for the ball during a friendly soccer match between Brazil and Japan in Wroclaw, Poland, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. (Alik Keplicz ...
View ArticleJapanese students celebrate trip to Moss Point
There was a celebration in Moss Point Monday afternoon, closing the book on an unique experience that a group of Japanese students and their host families will never forget. "It was a wonderful ...
View ArticleJapan seeks US support on countrys stand on Senkaku islands dispute with China
Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Genba met with visiting U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns and sought Washington's support for Japan's position on the Senkaku Islands, officials said. ...
View ArticleAll projects involving under cloud Japanese researcher Moriguchi to face probe
The Japanese Government and universities have started a probe over the research projects involving Hisashi Moriguchi, a researcher at University of Tokyo Hospital, who had falsely claimed to have ...
View ArticleEditorial Prep for big Tokyo quake pressing issue on 1st anniversary of 311
In the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami of March 2011, concerns have been growing over the possibility of another major earthquake striking Japan's capital. Experts point out ...
View ArticleEditorial Japan must lead in NPO revolution
We have reached the one-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami -- let us pray once again for the souls of those who lost their lives to the disaster, and for the recovery of ...
View ArticleEditorial Support system needed to banish lonely deaths from Japans cities
A number of so-called "lonely deaths" have been discovered across Japan this year, some weeks or even months after the people passed away. In many of these cases, a physically or mentally ...
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