Financial24 (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Japanese bonds may fall on speculation yields at the lowest level in three months will deter buyers before the Ministry of Finance sells 300 billion yen ($3.13 billion) in 40-year debt tomorrow. Benchmark bonds are likely to snap three weeks of gain ...
Financial24 (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
TOKYO, July 6 - The benchmark Nikkei average fell 0.6 percent and the broader Topix lost 0.3 percent on Monday . The following stock was on the move: AEON DROPS ON REPORT OF MARCH-MAY QUARTER LOSS Aeon Co Ltd, Japan's second largest retailer ...
News for Medievalists (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Pieces of an Islamic ceramic vase dating back to the late eighth century have been discovered in Nara Prefecture, making it possibly the oldest Islamic porcelain found in Japan, Nara city government researchers said Friday. Nineteen pieces with a blue-green exterior and dark green interior surface were unearthed at Saidaiji Temple in the ancient Japanese capital, they said without giving the specific...
Laptop blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
We take a break from reporting on the impending doom of the human race to bring you news of the latest innovation designed specifically for making our pre-apocalypse lives miserable. Japanese firm DSS is now offering to snap video cameras and ankle sensors -- yes, the same kind that convicts under home arrest have to wear -- onto your employees for the ultimate in workplace surveillance. Sure, you...
TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Everybody may know those bright red vans - but not everyone will hear them coming in Japan, where the country’s postal service is scheduled to deploy 40 electric vehicles during this fiscal year. The first units are scheduled to come into operation later this month after the Japan Post Service Company signed five-year lease agreements for [...]
Financial24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
TOKYO, July 5 - Japanese tax authorities have told an affiliated company of Amazon.com to pay some $119 million in taxes for unreported income in Japan over three years to the end of 2005, the Asahi newspaper reported on Sunday . But the company s ...
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Hardware , Odds and ends , Apple Financial , iPhone TG Daily (via Fortune ) is reporting that Japanese market research company BCN's latest rankings of cellphone sales in Japan are showing that Apple's smartphone is the the current market leader in that country. I did a quick check at BCN this afternoon while writing this post, and the iPhone 3GS 32GB is listed in...
GameGrep Feed (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The Japanese market has been dominated by the Nintendo DS and PSP. That trend did not change in the first half of 2009 as the two handheld systems once again dominated the Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 in terms of hardware sales in Japan so far in the year.
TODAY ON ROADST3R - Car STORIES (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Japan's near-silent hybrid cars have been called dangerous by the vision-impaired and some users, prompting a government review on whether to add a noise-making device, according to an official. The petrol-electric vehicles, which in recent months have become...
Japan Probe (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
A bus company in Nagano Prefecture that parks its buses in a dangerous-looking manner: The bus company wants to make the most use of its limited parking lot space, so it backs the buses up until they are nearly on the point of falling over the ledge. Drivers can monitor their progress via a rear [...]
Rugby World Cup News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fiji and Japan put on a masterclass of adventurous running rugby at the National Stadium in Suva to bring a thrilling end to the 2009 ANZ Pacific Nations Cup. The home favourites led 20-14 at the break but had to come from behind in the second half and snatched victory at the death from the Japanese [...]
MacBlender (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Since the release of the original iPhone in 2007, Apple’s smartphone has been on a steady climb upwards, taking huge chunks of the U.S. mobile phone market and giving even the BlackBerry a run for its money. The arrival of the iPhone 3G S and the $99 iPhone only bring Apple one step closer to [...]
Is there more to life than shoes? (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Ah, all those handy questions one can fire off on the internet and get useful responses from strangers all over the world: Im planning a trip to tokyo and while at my stay there I want to have sex with some japanese girls (and film a sex tape with them as kind of souvenir for myself).I also plan on visiting the strip clubs in tokyo and filming the girls there.Is it legal to film in strip clubs in tokyo?And...
TechGeer (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
A survey of 2300 retail stores reveals that Apple has cleaned up in the smartphone market in Japan, TG Daily reports. Market research company BCN revealed that the iPhone 3G 8GB is easily heading the list, followed by the 16GB iPhone and the NTT CoCoMo Aquos SH-04A. Is the ranking dependable? ...
Kotaku (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Remember when the Xbox 360 launched in Japan? Boy, that was embarrassing! Microsoft has turned things around of late and found a small degree of success in the region. "Xbox 360 as a business is...
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mitro | 02/06/2009
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azito | 21/04/2009
The 1970 Osaka Expo, with its motto "Human Progress and Harmony" was the beacon for futuristic inventions of the time. Many artists were captivated by this optimistic creative energy, but Yanobe Kenji who visited the festival after it had ended and was already on its way to being dismantled, saw it as a foreboding representation of the end of the future. Every since this traumatic experience, he went
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