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Nokia, the world's biggest cellphone maker, said it will stop selling mobile phones in Japan.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 www.indianexpress.com
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Tokyo: Nokia, the world's biggest cellphone maker, said on Thursday it will stop selling mobile phones in Japan except for its high-end brand Vertu after struggling to expand its presence in the country.
Despite its global market share of nearly 40 per cent, Nokia holds less than 1 per cent of Japan's mature wireless market as its products have failed to lure consumers from high-performance Jap
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The protestors demanded that the issue of sexual slavery be solved with a govt apology.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 ibnlive.in.com
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Foreign Affairs
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Tokyo: A group of war victims claiming they were forced to provide sex for Japan's Imperial army during World War II gathered in front of Tokyo's House of Councillors on Tuesday asking for an official apology from the Japanese government.
Following the International Solidarity Conference which was held in Tokyo for the victims of the Japanese military sex slavery, victims and their supporters j
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46-yr-old said he killed three people connected to the health ministry and stabbed the wife of anoth
Monday, November 24, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Tokyo: A Japanese man upset by the death of his pet turned himself in after fatally stabbing a bureaucrat and his wife, Japanese police and media said on Sunday.
Police were searching the house of a 46-year-old man who said he murdered a former deputy minister for health and welfare, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department said.Kyodo news said the man also admitted to the fatal stabbin
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Oil tumbled to a three-and-a-half year low below $49 a barrel on Friday.
Friday, November 21, 2008 ibnlive.in.com
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Singapore: Oil tumbled to a three-and-a-half year low below $49 a barrel on Friday, nearing a $100 drop from its July record high, as more distress for the global economy threatened to eat further into demand for fuels.
Asian stock markets dropped to a five-year low on Friday, tracking US stocks that hit their lowest in a decade the previous session as the fate of the country's major car makers
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MySpace said it would more than double the number of artists on its Japanese pages to get more click
Monday, November 17, 2008 justsamachar.com
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Tokyo: Banking on the global appeal of Japanese pop and video games, social networking site MySpace said it would more than double the number of artists on its Japanese pages to get more clicks internationally.
The growth of new sign-ups and page views is slowing in Japan for rival networking services such as mixi Inc, but Myspace, which launched its Japanese site two years ago, aims to buck the
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Japan's economy slid into a recession for the first time since 2001, the government said on Monday.
Monday, November 17, 2008 ibnlive.in.com
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Business
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Tokyo: Japan's economy slid into a recession for the first time since 2001, the government said on Monday, as companies sharply cut back on spending in the third quarter amid the unfolding global financial crisis.
The world's second-largest economy contracted at an annual pace of 0.4 per cent in the July-September period after a declining an annualised 3.7 per cent in the second quarter. That m
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Video clips of a Japanese police crackdown on a group of "working poor" who tried to get a look at t
Friday, November 14, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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TOKYO: Video clips of a Japanese police crackdown on a group of "working poor" who tried to get a look at the wealthy PM's luxurious private home in Tokyo have attracted thousands of viewers on internet.
Three men were arrested on suspicion of assembling without a permit and scuffling with police, a spokesman at of Tokyo police said, when about 40 people gathered last month near PM Taro Aso's h
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Tokyo staged its biggest ever anti-terrorism exercise in the 2016 Olympic Games
Friday, November 07, 2008 justsamachar.com
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Foreign Affairs
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo staged its biggest ever anti-terrorism exercise on Friday, in an attempt to prove its credentials for staging the 2016 Olympic Games, days after Barack Obama's U.S. election victory boosted rival Chicago's hopes.
Sirens wailed as a thousand personnel drawn from the army, navy and coastguard, as well as police and rescue services, gave a carefully orchestrated demonstrati
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Japanese researchers said on Thursday they had created functioning human brain tissue from stem cell
Friday, November 07, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Health
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TOKYO: Japanese researchers said on Thursday they had created functioning human brain tissue from stem cells, a world first that has raised new
hopes for the treatment of disease.
Stem cells taken from human embryos have been used to form tissues of the cerebral cortex, the supreme control tower of the brain, according to experts at the government-backed research institute Riken. The tissues sel
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Sony Corp said five PC makers including Hewlett-Packard Co and Toshiba Corp will recall 100,000 comp
Friday, October 31, 2008 justsamachar.com
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Technology
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SAN FRANCISCO/TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp said five PC makers including Hewlett-Packard Co and Toshiba Corp will recall 100,000 computer battery packs made by the Japanese electronics maker due to a fire hazard.
Sony said the recall is expected to have limited impact on its earnings, and its shares outperformed a falling Tokyo stock market on Friday.
The recall is a fraction of a much bigger rec
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