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SOCCER
Oct 17, 2008

England tops Belarus as Rooney leads way

LONDON (AP) England, Spain and the Netherlands maintained perfect starts in World Cup qualifying Wednesday night to open big leads for spots in the 2010 tournament in South Africa, while Italy and Germany also were victors heading into a six-month break.
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BUSINESS
Oct 10, 2008

Huge video game show kicks off

CHIBA — Tokyo Game Show, one of the world's biggest gaming events, kicked off Thursday with a record 879 software titles expected to attract 180,000 people during its four-day run.
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BUSINESS
Oct 10, 2008

Toyota forced to find alternative uses for U.S. workers

Idled Toyota Motor Corp. assembly-line workers in San Antonio are spending two weeks cleaning city parks, removing graffiti, painting benches and fixing fences instead of building pickup trucks.
BUSINESS
Oct 8, 2008

Japan, U.S. biz leaders optimistic

In an apparent effort to check the slide in business sentiment in the face of the global economic crisis, Japanese and U.S. business leaders sounded an optimistic note Tuesday at the end of a two-day meeting in Tokyo.
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JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Oct 7, 2008

Survival now arcades' most pressing game

Once viewed as dens of delinquency, game center arcades are diversifying their entertainment fare, and in the process, attracting not only youths but families, high school girls, couples and video game fans.
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2008

Nintendo's new DSi comes with a camera

Nintendo Co. unveiled a new version of the DS portable game machine Thursday that comes with a digital camera and an audio player.
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2008

Shinsei eyes deposits to fund consumer loans

Shinsei Bank Ltd., the lender that bought General Electric Co.'s Japanese consumer finance businesses, aims to use low-cost bank deposits to boost profit from consumer loans.
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JAPAN
Oct 2, 2008

Web society opts to stay anonymous

Like a lot of 20-year-olds, Kae Takahashi has a page on U.S.-based MySpace, and there is no mistaking it for anyone else's.
BUSINESS
Sep 30, 2008

Nomura names execs to integrate Lehman units

Nomura Holdings Inc. has appointed Chief Operating Officer Takumi Shibata to head the integration of units acquired from Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
BUSINESS
Sep 30, 2008

DoCoMo to debut new BlackBerry in January

NTT DoCoMo Inc. said Monday it will introduce a new model of the BlackBerry handset to woo business users.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2008

Inpex picks Darwin for LNG site

Inpex Holdings Inc., Japan's largest energy explorer, has picked Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory as the onshore site for a $20 billion liquefied natural gas project, moving the venture closer to development.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2008

Global woes threaten to blight BOJ's recovery scenario: Noda

The Bank of Japan's expectation that the economy will soon pull out of its current stagnation was questioned Thursday by board member Tadao Noda, who predicted that global growth will slow further.
BUSINESS
Sep 20, 2008

Fujitsu may focus on chip design

Fujitsu Ltd. said it may focus on semiconductor design and reduce spending on machinery because the company is predicted to miss its full-year projections amid falling demand.
JAPAN
Sep 20, 2008

Lehman workers face a tough job market

Employees of bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. across the globe are suddenly out on the street and looking for new jobs — and the 1,300 at the Japanese unit of the U.S. securities house in Tokyo are no exception.
BUSINESS
Sep 20, 2008

'No quick fix' for turmoil: Sakakibara

The yen may strengthen past 100 to the dollar this year because there is "no quick fix" for the credit-market turmoil in the United States, former currency official Eisuke Sakakibara said on Friday.
BUSINESS
Sep 18, 2008

BOJ keeps rate at 0.5% amid 'sluggish' growth

The Bank of Japan kept interest rates unchanged Wednesday after pumping more than ¥5 trillion into money markets so far this week in the wake of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s collapse.
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BUSINESS
Sep 18, 2008

AIG Japan unit safe for time being

The U.S. Federal Reserve's emergency $85 billion rescue of the U.S. insurer American International Group eased concerns Wednesday that its Japanese unit will survive, at least for the time being.

Longform

Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan