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  • Japan sinks Singapore at Sudirman Cup

    Japan showed all-round strength by sweeping aside Singapore 5-0 in their group match at the Sudirman Cup here Monday. Hiroyuki Endo and Kenichi Hayakawa made it 1-0 for Japan in the men's doubles by beating Chrisnanta Danny Bawa and Terry Zhao 21-7, 21-18. World No.24 Gu Juan of Singapore was beaten by No.10 Minatsu Mitani at 21-10, 21-19 in women's singles while in men's singles, Derek Wong ...

  • Japan finance minister wants BOJ to have thorough dialogue with government bond market

    Reuters © Japan's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso smiles as he adjusts his headphones during a seminar at the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) 46th annual board meeting in Greater Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi May 3, 2013. REUTERS/Adnan ...

  • Most Japanese decry mayors view polls

    /enpproperty--> A large majority of Japanese people disagree with a high-profile politician who said women forced to provide sex during World War II were a military necessity, polls issued on Monday said. Up to 200,000 "comfort women" from Korea, China, the Philippines and elsewhere were forcibly drafted into brothels catering to the Japanese military during World War II. ...

  • Japan Stimulus measures boost factories and exports

    The government said its latest monthly snapshot showed the economy was "gradually recovering" as exports and factory output rise. The improvement has been driven by the steep fall in the yen in the wake of the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's aggressive attempts to jump-start growth.Bank of Japan rate-setters are expected to pause for breath this week after launching their "shock ...

  • Japan Inc. Should Take a Look in the Mirror

    Japan , will do everything it can to mask and hide what's wrong. That's what's most important," said Woodford, a Briton who was fired in late 2011 after he exposed a $1.7 billion accounting fraud in his own company. Woodford's tale is worth revisiting as Sony rebuffs a proposal from hedge-fund ...

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Dark City

As human beings, memories are our most cherished possession. So what would happen if you couldn't trust them as your own? Isn't it your memories that show you are real, that give proof of your prior existence? Is your memory not your identity? What would happen if the past you had stored in your mind was not really yours? What if it belonged to someone else, or possibly, to no one at all? This is ... ...

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  • Japan Futures Signal Topix to Fall From 4 12-Year High

    Japanese stock futures fell, indicating the Topix Index will retreat from the highest level since August 2008, as the yen rose and investors weighed the pace of Federal Reserve stimulus efforts. American Depositary Receipts of Sony ...

  • Senior Kyodo News official dismissed over improper act

    Kyodo News said Monday that it has dismissed Satoshi Kondo, 51, deputy chief of its general administration bureau and former personnel affairs division chief, for meeting individually with a female student searching for a job and doing an inappropriate act. In December last year, Kondo met with the student, who aimed to take a 2013 employment examination for Kyodo News, and taught her on ...

  • Japans brokerages look abroad despite boom at home

    Booming stock markets at home have helped drive earnings at Japan's two biggest brokerages to multi-year highs. But the companies still see the rest of Asia as key to profits in the long term, even as they lose money and cut staff in those ...

  • Exclusive Japan panel warns of dangers if debt not addressed

    A Japanese government panel warns there is "absolutely no guarantee" that domestic investors will keep financing the country's massive public debt, citing the risk of a spike in bond yields that could crimp long-term growth prospects, according to a draft report seen by Reuters on ...

  • Nikkei set to slip from 5-12-yr high on pause in yen weakness

    TOKYO, May 21 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average is expected to pull back from a 5-1/2-year high on Tuesday as Wall Street ended flat and the dollar slipped against the yen on caution before U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony. The Nikkei is likely to trade between 15,250 and 15,400, strategists said. Nikkei futures in Chicago closed at 15,320 on Monday, down ...

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