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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Is the Weak Yen Already Becoming A Problem for Japan

    Since BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda was appointed into office by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the BOJ has become keen on boosting the economy and weakening the yen. The bank has launched aggressive measures to ease monetary policy. This has then led the yen to drop to multi-year lows against some of its counterparts. Now that USD/JPY has risen above the major 100.00 psychological level, ...

Movie Review

Solaris (2002) [DVD]

Solaris (2002) [DVD]

Steven Soderbergh's film of Polish novelist Stanislaw Lem's Solaris was advertised as a romance during its theatrical release, which is not entirely inaccurate, depending on what your definition is of a romantic movie. Solaris is a love story, but it's not exactly a date movie, unless your date is a graduate student in philosophy. Rather, it is a difficult and enigmatic exploration ... ...

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  • Sony’s next gaming system is an out-of-focus black rectangle

    actually defended the company . After all, the look of the plastic shell surrounding the new PlayStation hardware didn't actually matter as much as the games on display. After seeing today's teaser trailer promoting the PS4's E3 press appearance, though, I have to think that Sony is just trolling us at this point. I mean what other conclusion is there to draw from the 39 second ...

  • Exclusive - Japan Inc. averse to further yen drop poll finds

    By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Kaori KanekoTOKYO (Reuters) - Signs are that most firms in export-driven Japan Inc, having got the weaker yen they craved, now want the currency to either stabilise or recover ground, rather than continue a slide that will increasingly raise their costs.About half the Japanese companies in a new Reuters survey say the yen has fallen enough, just 15 percent want a further ...

  • Hope in Japan That Abenomics May Be Turning Things Around

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  • Abe’s Resurgent Japan Hurt by Lack of Business Spending

    Shinjuku Gyoen park, he says he begged the premier to help small- and medium-sized companies that make up 70 percent of Japan's industry. "Stocks and the yen may have come back, but the state of the real economy is very different," said Watanabe, 49, who has no plans to raise wages for his 17 employees and hasn't paid a bonus since 2008. "It's impossible for ...

  • PS4 News Sony Releases Teaser Right Before New Xbox Unveiling

    Andrew House, president and Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, speaks during the unveiling of the PlayStation 4 launch event in New York, February 20, ...

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