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  • Hack attack led to theft of 22 million IDs at Yahoo Japan

    Yahoo Japan faced a hack attack, which reportedly led to a theft of 22 million user ids that constitutes one tenth of its 200 million members. A file of ID details was stolen from the administration system at Yahoo Japan, which was spotted late on 16th May. In a report by BBC, the tech firm cut the net access as soon as it detected the attack. Although the firm was not sure if the data had ...

  • Japan has many attractions for foreign tourists

    "The Land of the Rising Sun" - Japan - attracts a large number of tourists from all over the world. The country, which will host the 2020 Olympic Games, has a lot to offer to its visitors. These tourists are being ferried from Takamatsu Airport to Setouchi Triennale 2013, a unique festival of contemporary art spread out and interlaced with the numerous islands dotting Japan's picturesque ...

  • Now enjoy Ramen Noodles onboard Japans ANA flights

    All Nippon Airways (ANA), the Japan's largest airlines, has announced plans to serve Ramen Noodles to its passengers from June 1, 2013. Ramen dishes have been developed exclusively for the Japanese airline by Hakata IPPUDO, the famous Ramen Noodle chain based in Kyushu, Japan. Operated and managed by Chikaranomoto Company Co., Ltd, Hakata IPPUDO has expanded its market to seven countries. ...

  • Weaker yen fuels economic optimism in Japan

    The Japanese government Monday revised upward its evaluation of the economy given the weakness of the yen, which is helping to push exports and encouraging companies to increase production. In its economic report for May, the cabinet raised its evaluation of three of the 14 categories it analyzes: exports, industrial production and profits. In addition, it said that the economy "is moving ...

  • How a Japanese Scientist Developed the Tornado Rating System

    Rescue efforts continued Tuesday to uncover survivors from the tornado that came through Moore, Oklahoma. It has been preliminarily declared a category F4, that is Fujita Scale 4. The system of rating tornadoes was developed by Ted Fujita, a scientist from Japan. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Harold Brooks, research meteorologist for the National Severe Storms Laboratories in Norman, ...

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid [DVD]

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid [DVD]

Nineteen-sixty-nine was a strange year for the Western genre in Hollywood. It was both a year of great success and the end of an era. ...

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  • The new consoles from Microsoft Nintendo and Sony

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Microsoft is the last of the three big video game console makers to unveil its latest gaming system. Tuesday's unveiling comes nearly eight years after the Xbox 360 went on sale. It follows last fall's debut of Nintendo's Wii U and a preview in February of the upcoming PlayStation 4 from ...

  • Sony to assess spin-off proposal for entertainment business Nikkei

    (Reuters) - Sony Corp is considering evaluating a proposal from top shareholder Third Point LLC to spin off part of its movie and music business, Japanese daily Nikkei ...

  • In Japan Citizen Radiation-Tracking Project Goes Big Time

    A post-Fukushima effort to crowdsource radiation data in Japan has since become the largest source of radiation data in the country. And it’s now set to expand to other parts of the world. Catherine Winter reports from ...

  • Japanese JV selects Freeport for chemical plant

    Mitsui and Idemitsu have formed a joint venture that will build a chemical plant at Dow's Freeport location. A joint venture between Mitsui & Company Ltd. and Idemitsu Kosan Company Ltd., two Japanese chemical companies, has chosen to build an alpha olefins chemical plant at Dow Chemical Co.s (NYSE: DOW) Freeport location. Bloomberg reports that the joint venture applied for air emissions ...

  • Former World Bank chief warns Japanese growth may be sugar high

    WASHINGTON--Former World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Monday that Japan's economic drive needed accompanying structural reforms, voicing fear that recent growth could be just a "sugar ...

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