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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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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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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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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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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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PM Manmohan Singh being presented a bouquet by a Chinese girl as he arrives at Beijing Capital Airpo
Friday, October 24, 2008 www.indianexpress.com
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Beijing: European and Asian leaders, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday initiated discussions to find a coordinated global response to stem the financial turmoil and the spectre of recession sweeping the world.
Singh, who arrived on Thursday night from Tokyo to attend the 7th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit, said he hoped the meeting will come out with a solution to the many glob
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A student of Keio University wears a special ‘see-through coat’
Friday, October 24, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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A student of Keio University wears a special ‘see-through coat’ made of movie-screen-like material during a press preview of the Digital Contents Expo in Tokyo on Thursday.
Tokyo University’s Susumu Tachi developed the optical camouflage technology in which the scene behind the coat is captured by a video camera, and then projects that scene ‘virtually’ onto the coat’s special material
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Sony Corp's new PlayStation Portable got off to a robust start in Japan
Thursday, October 23, 2008 justsamachar.com
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp's new PlayStation Portable got off to a robust start in Japan, with combined sales of it and earlier models in the week of its market debut hitting the highest so far this year, a research firm said on Thursday.
Sony is estimated to have sold 151,522 units of the PSP handheld game gear in the week ended Oct. 19 in Japan, a seven-fold jump from the previous week and ou
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Conserving cash becomes priority, but opportunities to do big deals will emerge
Thursday, October 23, 2008 www.dnaindia.com
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Based on a statement made by Astra Zeneca CEO David Brennan in Tokyo recently, we had hinted last week that the global healthcare industry is not insulated from what is perhaps the worst financial calamity of our times.
Governments in developed economies will feel a tighter squeeze on healthcare spends and there could be an indirect impact on pharmaceutical companies, we had noted.
But a direct
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