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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 ...

  • Falling yen makes Japanese goods more affordable

    Attention, bargain-hunters: Japanese goods - from cars to televisions - are going on sale. Credit Japan's drive to pump cash into its economy to stimulate growth. The extra money flooding its financial system is helping shrink the value of the yen. A U.S. dollar now buys about 100 yen. Last fall, it bought fewer than 80. When the yen's value falls, many Japanese goods become less ...

  • Japans low-cost carriers looking to open new domestic intl routes

    Japan's three low-cost carriers, coming off a successful Golden Week holiday period, are hoping to increase demand by opening up new routes. Now better known to the public after roughly a year in business, domestic budget carriers are expected to meet with more competition from foreign airlines. Peach Aviation--the nation's first LCC to take to the skies--logged 69,000 customers from ...

  • 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. ...

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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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  • 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. ...

  • 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 ...

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