Japan

Japan's exports fall for first time in five years

Financial Time (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

Data further reinforced prevalent teh market views that the Bank of Japan will keep interest rates on hold for the rest of the year on economic uncertainties at home and abroad.

• Japan exports fall for first time in nearly 5 years - International Herald Tribune

News: New Dragon Quest debuts at No.1 in Japan

GamesIndustry.biz (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

DS title sells over 640,000 units in first week

• Japan Weekly Software Ranking (July 14 - July 20) - PSPHyper

LG intro’s the fashion phone KF300 Wine in Japan, Europe

Best New Technology (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

Call it a fashion phone, but the LG KF300 Wine is certainly a worthy addition to LG’s current line-up. Touting 2 display screens, the LG KF300 features a 2.2-inch QVGA internal display and a 1.3-inch external screen with 128x160 pixel resolution. Additionally, the tri-band LG KF30 mobile phone also boasts of network support for GSM/GPRS/EDGE, has a 2-megapixel camera with auto-focus, Bluetooth connectivity,...

• LG intro’s the fashion phone KF300 Wine in Japan, Europe - Gadgetell
• LG KF300 Wine hits Japan and Europe - Ring Nokia
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Wii Music dated in Japan?

Computer And Video Games (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Word sneaks out from a Japanese Nintendo event. Nintendo has allegedly held an event in Japan today where the company revealed the price and date for the Japanese version of Wii Music. Click here to read the full article

Canon to launch HF11 and HF21 high definition camcorders in Japan

HDTV UK (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

Canon has announced that it will launch two new high definition camcorders to the Japanese market in late August, both priced the same but one featuring 32GB of flash memory and the other a 120GB hard drive. The lighter HF11 features the large 32GB memory store, giving up to 12 hours of HD footage when shooting in AVCHD, and nearly three hours in full 1080p quality. An additional SD card can double...

• Canon iVIS HF11 and HG21 AVCHD Camcorders - iTech News Net

3G handsets from ZTE of China (Japan)

Wireless Federation (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Japanese mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Japan Communications has ordered an additional 100,000 3G handsets from ZTE of China. Last Month, MVNO announced it was ordering a shipment of data communications devices from the vendor and has upped its order after the handset was certified by the Japan Approvals Institute for Telecommunications Equipment and the [...]

Japan recovers from strong quake

BBC News (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

Residents in northern Japan are clearing up after a strong - but luckily deep - earthquake struck early on Thursday.

Japan and Europe gain LG Wine Phone for easier display viewing

Phones Review (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

Some, especially the older generation who have taken aboard the technology that is mobile phones, and there are quite a few of them, sometimes have to squint at the mobile screen which can sometimes be a right pain. Well they may be pleased to know, that according to AVING USA LG has launched their new [...]

Strong quake rocks northern Japan

Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

A strong earthquake has jolted northern Japan, injuring more than 100 people.

Strong earthquake injures more than 100 in Japan

Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

More than 100 people have been injured in a powerful earthquake in northern Japan today.

Japan's pension pot: Capital thinking

The Economist (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

A call to set up a sovereign-wealth fund PENSIONERS in Japan cannot help getting older, but could they be richer? The country's vast public-pension fund, to which every citizen must contribute, is poorly managed. Last year it lost money (Ұ5.65 trillion, around $47 billion). Reform may now be on the way, perhaps with big implications for the Tokyo market. The fund is the world's largest publicly invested...

North African And Asian Blue Chip And Broad Asia Pacific Ex Japan Indexes Licensed To BNP PARIBAS AM

Mondo Visione (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

BNP Paribas Asset Management (AM), a leader in the European asset management industry, has signed a licensing agreement with Dow Jones Indexes and STOXX Ltd. to issue financial products on the Dow Jones STOXX Asia/Pacific 600 ex Japan, the Dow Jones South Korea Titans 30, the Dow Jones CASE Egypt Titans 20 and the Dow Jones Turkey Titans 20 Indexes. All indexes will serve as underlying for exchange-traded...

Earthquake rocks northern Japan

ireland.com (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

A strong earthquake jolted northern Japan early today, injuring at least 99 people, trapping hundreds in halted trains and affecting production at some high-tech factories.

Japan pushes for Asian voice at IMO

lloydslist.com (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago

IT is aiming to form a grouping to represent shipbuilders in the region at the IMO by 2011.

Cupcakes at Pink Cafe, Universal Studios, Japan

Cupcakes Take the Cake (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Our reader Yuree wrote to us about her recent trip to the Pink Cafe at Universal Studios Japan: I went to japan this summer and in Universal Studio found this really cute shop called 'The Pink Cafe'. They have all adorable sweets in there including a cupcake set which offers 3 different kinds of cupcakes with chocolate bases which are: - strawberry and orange cream - chocolate (the frosting is fudgy...