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  • Japan clarifies report on North Korean missile launches

    While confirming North Korea's missile launches Saturday, the Japanese government clarified none of the missiles landed in its territorial waters, Xinhua reported. South Korea's Yonhap News Agency, citing its country's defence ministry, had reported that North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the Sea of Japan. The ministry had detected two missiles being launched in the ...

  • Nikkei hits fresh 5 12-yr high on weak yen upbeat U.S. data

    Reset TOKYO (May 20): The Nikkei share average extended its record-breaking run and hit a fresh 5-1/2 year high on Monday morning, as further weakness in the yen and signs of an improving U.S. economy bolstered prospects for higher Japanese corporate earnings in the current business year. The Nikkei rose 1.0 percent to 15,287.59, the highest since December 2007. The broader Topix added ...

  • Japan stocks rally at open as exporters surge Nikkei Average up 0.8

    HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Japanese stocks jumped early Monday on an improved profit outlook, with another record finish for key U.S. benchmarks on Friday aiding several exporters although the yen rebounded from lows against the U.S. ...

  • Tokyo stocks open up 0.81

    The benchmark Nikkei 225 index was up 122.49 points at 15,260.61 at the start on Monday."Bullish equities markets and the progressively weaker yen should help drive the market to a fresh multi-year high after much profit-taking in the last several sessions," said Hiroichi Nishi, general manager of equities at SMBC Nikko Securities.US stocks closed another week of record highs on Friday ...

  • Japan stocks jump in early trade on U.S. cues

    HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Japanese stocks jumped early Monday on an improved profit outlook, with another record finish for key U.S. benchmarks on Friday aiding several exporters although the yen rebounded from lows against the U.S. ...

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Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) [DVD]

Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) [DVD]

At its core, Akira Kurosawas Seven Samurai is little more than a great yarn extremely well spun. Its story is so simple, it can be summarized in a single sentence: Small Japanese farming village is threatened by bandits and hires seven ronin (masterless samurai) to protect them ... ...

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  • Japanese manufacturers mood turns positive Poll

    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's expansionary policy has generated more confidence in the economy. Increasing optimism among manufacturers was largely driven by exporting sectors, including electric and precision machinery, that have benefited from the weak yen. The mood in the service sector also picked up and was seen rising further as consumers drew confidence, in part, from a surge in share ...

  • Nikkei set to scale fresh 5 12-year highs

    Shibulal cited the recent Infosys 3.0 strategy as a transformation exercise that could set the company on a high-quality growth path in the long ...

  • Japan Biotech Ventures Surge as Abenomics Cash Spurs Speculation

    Japanese biotech ventures promising to make jet fuel from algae and to produce synthetic cartilage are soaring in Tokyo trading as cash pumped into the economy by the central bank cascades into speculative investments. Five of the ...

  • JPY rallies on comments from Japanese EconMin USD bullish momentum picking up

    USD/JPY traded 100 pips lower from the Friday close during early interbank trade after the Japanese EconMin said over the weekend that the Yen correction had gone far enough. The USD index broke above an important technical resistance level at 84.10 on Friday and bullish dollar momentum seems to be picking up some steam. There are no data releases of note on today's calendar and most of the ...

  • TABLE-Foreign brokers set to buy Japanese stocks

    TOKYO, May 20 (Reuters) - Following are orders for Japanese stocks placed through six foreign securities houses before the start of trade on Monday. Japanese Stocks: BUY 14.0 million ...

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