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  • Japan’s trade deficit hits $8.6bn

    Tokyo - Japan reports its trade deficit widened to a larger-than-expected 879.9 billion yen ($8.6 billion) in April as its weakening currency accentuated surging import ...

  • Tokyo stocks close up

    Tokyo - Tokyo stocks climbed 1.60 percent to close at their highest level in more than five years with investor appetite unabated on a weak yen and record-setting levels on Wall ...

  • Sony mull entertainment spin-off

    Kazuo Hirai, chief executive of the ailing electronics firm, said the board would give "thorough consideration" to a call from billionaire hedge fund manager Dan Loeb for a spin-off of its lucrative music and movies business Sony Entertainment.Loeb, whose Third Point hedge fund is Sony's biggest shareholder, argued last week the move would boost the company's shares by ...

  • Sonys Amy Pascal On Closing The Money Gap Between Men And Women In Hollywood

    Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Lawrence who can demand top dollar. But for the most part because women are relegated to movies with smaller budget or cast as the girlfriend, they earn less. On ...

  • Sony Board Will Consider Activist Loebs Breakup Plan

    Sony new chief Kazuo Hirai speaks during a press briefing to announce his plans to turn around the iconic firm at the company's headquarters. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via ...

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [Blu-Ray]

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [Blu-Ray]

Shrouded in ashen cigarette smoke, heavy silences, backroom intrigue, and horridly despondent early 70s British interior dcor, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy unfolds with maximum perplexity, ensuring that we will never, despite being able to grasp the stakes an ... ...

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  • BOJ target at risk as spreads show tame G-7 prices

    The extra yield on Group of Seven nations' notes over Japan's narrowed to 61 basis points last week, the lowest since 1990, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch index data. While central banks in G-7 countries keep borrowing costs at record lows and maintain unprecedented stimulus, consumer-price increases have lost momentum in most of those economies. The BOJ affirmed its ...

  • Cesium levels in water plankton baffle scientists

    Plankton and seawater sampled at 10 points less than a year after the Fukushima meltdowns found concentrations of radioactive cesium were highest at different locations in the Pacific, puzzling scientists. The group collected zooplankton and surface seawater at 10 points between Hokkaido and Guam, 500 to 2,100 km from the crippled power plant, between Jan. 14 and Feb. 5, 2012. Cesium 134, with ...

  • As Hashimoto self-destructs party also reels

    Recent remarks by Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto justifying the Imperial Japanese Army’s ';comfort women'; brothel system have upset relations with the United States and South Korea and enraged human rights activists both at home and abroad. The impact on domestic politics has also been great, as major parties distance themselves from Hashimoto’s Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan ...

  • Kim sends special envoy to Beijing

    PYONGYANG/BEIJING - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dispatched a high-profile official and close confidant to China on Wednesday at a time of strained relations and ahead of a China-U.S. summit. Choe Ryong Hae, a top Workers’ Party official and a vice marshal tasked with supervising the North Korean military, departed on a chartered flight with a political and military delegation. Chinese ...

  • NRA backs Tsuruga active fault finding

    The Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday accepted an assessment that reactor 2 at the Tsuruga nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture is sitting on an active fault, increasing the likelihood that the unit can never be restarted. ';We have received a report from a panel of experts that said there is an active fault. . . . I think there is a need to accept the conclusion sincerely,'; NRA ...

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