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MEMC’s Plans in Japan Remain Murky
Added on Jan 18, 2012
    MEMC, announced on Monday, January 17th that the company intends to build 1 GW worth o...
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Is Japan's Semiconductor Industry Still Relevant?
Added on Dec 06, 2011
The Semiconductor Industry Association of the US recently announced that the revenues of the global...
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NTT Data
NTT Data’s Big Year a Harbinger for Japan’s Software Industry
Added on Nov 30, 2011
Not every company in Japan has had a bad time of it lately. NTT Data, a software and systems integra...
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Tokyo Main Board
Tokyo and Osaka Securities Exchanges to Merge
Added on Nov 24, 2011
The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) announced today that it will merge with the Osaka Securities Exchange...
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Japan's Galapagos Problem
What's the Matter with Japan: "Galapagosization"
Added on Nov 24, 2011
A recent poll cited Japan as having the lowest penetration of smartphones in the world, with only 16...
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Japanese Carmaker Supply Chains Battered by Thailand Flooding
Japanese Carmaker Supply Chains Battered by Thailand Flooding
Added on Nov 07, 2011
Japan’s big three carmakers, already reeling from the fallout of Japan’s March tsunami,...
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Fukushima Prefecture Tourist Industry Tries to Recover From Devastating Year
Fukushima Prefecture Tourist Industry Tries to Recover From Devastating Year
Added on Oct 12, 2011
Resorts in Fukushima Prefecture, even in areas far from the areas affected by the Fukushima Daiichi...
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Sony in Talks to Buy Out Sony Ericsson Joint Venture
Sony in Talks to Buy Out Sony Ericsson Joint Venture
Added on Oct 08, 2011
Inside sources have recently disclosed that Sony is in talks with Ericsson regarding taking 100 perc...
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Japanese Factory Output Remaining Stagnant
Japanese Factory Output Remaining Stagnant
Added on Sep 30, 2011
Japanese manufacturing output rose 0.8 percent in August, nearly half of the previously forecast 1.5...
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Kobe Steel Joint Venture to Produce Auto Steel in China
Kobe Steel Joint Venture to Produce Auto Steel in China
Added on Sep 29, 2011
Kobe Steel has announced that they intend to establish a joint venture in China with Anshan Iron and...
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Toyota Reports Complete Recovery in Production Toyota Motor posted it’s first y
Toyota Reports Complete Recovery in Production
Added on Sep 29, 2011
Toyota Motor posted it’s first year-on-year production growth in twelve months in August, indi...
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ANA Receives First Official Deliveries of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner
ANA Receives First Official Deliveries of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner
Added on Sep 26, 2011
Boeing and All Nippon Airlines (ANA) officially signed the documents formalizing the delivery of the...
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Tokyo “Ready to Help” Europe Recover from Debt Crisis- Jun Azumi
Tokyo “Ready to Help” Europe Recover from Debt Crisis- Jun Azumi
Added on Sep 26, 2011
Japanese finance minister Jun Azumi said that Japan is ready to support Europe’s efforts to ov...
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KDDI to Offer iPhone 5 Service in Japan
KDDI to Offer iPhone 5 Service in Japan
Added on Sep 23, 2011
KDDI is to join Softbank as an exclusive seller and service provider for the iPhone 5 in Japan, repo...
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Nuclear Reactors Must be Online by Next Summer – Yoshihiko Noda
Nuclear Reactors Must be Online by Next Summer – Yoshihiko Noda
Added on Sep 23, 2011
Japan’s prime minister Yoshihiko Noda recently called for a restart of all of Japan’s id...
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Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries conglomerate recently told the Nikkei busine
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to Enter Jet Leasing Business
Added on Sep 23, 2011
Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries conglomerate recently told the Nikkei business daily that...
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Suzuki Ends Partnership with Volkswagen
Suzuki Ends Partnership with Volkswagen
Added on Sep 13, 2011
Japanese automaker Suzuki said that it has decided to dissolve its partnership and cross-shareholdin...
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Japan Threatened With Credit Rating Downgrade
Japan Threatened With Credit Rating Downgrade
Added on Sep 09, 2011
International credit ratings agency Fitch recently announced that there is a “greater than eve...
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Japan Eyes JP¥300 Billion Job Creation Program under Extra Budget
Japan Eyes JP¥300 Billion Job Creation Program under Extra Budget
Added on Sep 09, 2011
The government is set to implement a JP¥300 billion (US$3.88 billion) program to boost employmen...
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Taiwan to Build Factory Complex for Small and Midsize Japan Firms.
Taiwan to Build Factory Complex for Small and Midsize Japan Firms.
Added on Sep 09, 2011
Taiwan is to develop its first industrial complex exclusively for small and midsize Japanese compani...
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Japan Post Bank Opens Offices in London, Hong Kong
Japan Post Bank Opens Offices in London, Hong Kong
Added on Sep 02, 2011
Japan Post Bank opened an office in London on Sept. 1 and plans to set up shop in Hong Kong next mon...
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Britain's Tesco to Pull out of Japan
Britain's Tesco to Pull out of Japan
Added on Sep 02, 2011
The 129 stores include those operated under the Tesco brand, smaller outlets called Tesco Express, a...
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Hitachi, Sony, Toshiba Agree to Integrate Display Businesses
Hitachi, Sony, Toshiba Agree to Integrate Display Businesses
Added on Sep 01, 2011
Hitachi, Sony and Toshiba have agreed to integrate their small- and medium-sized display businesses...
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Auto Industry Urges Noda to Revitalize Economy
Auto Industry Urges Noda to Revitalize Economy
Added on Sep 01, 2011
The Chairman of Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association has issued a statement to call on new Jap...
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Japan’s Industrial Production Up 0.6 Percent in July
Japan’s Industrial Production Up 0.6 Percent in July
Added on Aug 31, 2011
The government data showed that Japan’s industrial production rose 0.6 percent in July from Ju...
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Softbank to Raise JP¥200 Billion
Softbank to Raise JP¥200 Billion
Added on Aug 31, 2011
Softbank plans to raise JP¥200 billion (US$2.6 billion) selling shares of a subsidiary to help f...
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Japan’s Jobless Rate up to 4.7 Percent in July
Japan’s Jobless Rate up to 4.7 Percent in July
Added on Aug 30, 2011
Japan’s jobless rate rose for the second straight month in July while household spending fell,...
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Sharp Establishes Sales Subsidiary in Brazil
Sharp Establishes Sales Subsidiary in Brazil
Added on Aug 30, 2011
Sharp has established a sales subsidiary for consumer electronics and telecommunications equipment i...
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Toyota Eyes Solar Power in Miyagi Prefecture
Toyota Eyes Solar Power in Miyagi Prefecture
Added on Aug 26, 2011
Toyota Motor will begin a solar power generation project with the Miyagi prefectural government, whe...
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Hewlett-Packard to Shift Production Base from China to Tokyo
Hewlett-Packard to Shift Production Base from China to Tokyo
Added on Aug 26, 2011
Hewlett-Packard Japan plans to relocate nearly all production sites for personal computers for sale...
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Asahi Group to Buy New Zealand’s Independent Liquor
Asahi Group to Buy New Zealand’s Independent Liquor
Added on Aug 19, 2011
Asahi Group Holdings would buy Independent Liquor of New Zealand for JP¥97.6 (US$1.28 billion) a...
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Eisai Establishes Sales Subsidiary in Mexico
Eisai Establishes Sales Subsidiary in Mexico
Added on Aug 18, 2011
Eisai plans to establish a new pharmaceutical sales subsidiary in Mexico, which will be called Eisai...
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Honda to Build New Factory in Mexico
Honda to Build New Factory in Mexico
Added on Aug 16, 2011
Honda plans to build a JP¥6.2 billion (US$800 million) factory in Mexico to make small cars for...
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H&M to Open 18 New Stores in Japan
H&M to Open 18 New Stores in Japan
Added on Aug 16, 2011
The world's second-largest fast fashion retailer, Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M), will more than...
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Panasonic Becomes the Exclusive Sponsor of Disney’s D23 Expo
Panasonic Becomes the Exclusive Sponsor of Disney’s D23 Expo
Added on Aug 16, 2011
Panasonic has become the exclusive consumer electronics sponsor of Disney’s D23 Expo 2011, whi...
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Microreactors are the Future for Nuclear Power – Koichiro Gemba
Microreactors are the Future for Nuclear Power – Koichiro Gemba
Added on Aug 12, 2011
Japan’s National Policy Minister Koichiro Gemba said in a recent interview with the Wall Stree...
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Nippon Paper to Cut 1,300 Jobs
Nippon Paper to Cut 1,300 Jobs
Added on Aug 05, 2011
Nippon Paper Group will cut 1,300 jobs from its paper division, a 15 percent reduction in the divisi...
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Auto Giants Moving ahead in India
Auto Giants Moving ahead in India
Added on Aug 05, 2011
Auto giants Ford Motor and Toyota Motor have announced they will double their output capacity in Ind...
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Toshiba to Sell Share in Phone Business
Toshiba to Sell Share in Phone Business
Added on Aug 04, 2011
Fujitsu has revealed a plan to buy out its mobile phone joint venture with Toshiba next year, which...
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Hitachi to Halt Domestic TV Production
Hitachi to Halt Domestic TV Production
Added on Aug 04, 2011
Hitachi will halt its only domestic television production in Gifu prefecture this fiscal year. And i...
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Nissan Develops System to Supply Power to Homes via EVs
Nissan Develops System to Supply Power to Homes via EVs
Added on Aug 03, 2011
Nissan Motor has developed a system to supply electricity to ordinary households from batteries that...
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Yen's rise, Power Shortages Weighing on Japanese Firms - METI
Yen's rise, Power Shortages Weighing on Japanese Firms - METI
Added on Aug 03, 2011
Japanese manufacturers are feeling increasingly pressured by the yen's recent sharp appreciation aga...
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Nissan to Invest in China
Nissan to Invest in China
Added on Jul 27, 2011
Nissan and its Chinese partner plans to invest RMB50 billion (US$7.8 billion) and launch 30 vehicles...
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Dentsu Partners with Skype
Dentsu Partners with Skype
Added on Jul 22, 2011
Dentsu announced that it has concluded a contract to be the exclusive display advertising partner in...
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Asahi to buy Malaysia's Permanis for JP¥21.6 billion
Asahi to buy Malaysia's Permanis for JP¥21.6 billion
Added on Jul 22, 2011
Asahi Group Holdings has reached an agreement with Malaysia’s CI Holdings to buy its Permanis...
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Toyota to Set up New School in Tohoku
Toyota to Set up New School in Tohoku
Added on Jul 21, 2011
Toyota Motor is to set up a new in-house school in the disaster-hit Tohoku region which will train j...
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Nissan Plans Expansion in US Market of All-Electric Leaf
Nissan Plans Expansion in US Market of All-Electric Leaf
Added on Jul 21, 2011
Nissan North America is expanding the availability of the all-electric Nissan Leaf to more US outlet...
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Nakata Becomes Brand Ambassador for Lenovo
Nakata Becomes Brand Ambassador for Lenovo
Added on Jul 21, 2011
Former Japan soccer star Hidetoshi Nakata was named a “brand ambassador” this week for L...
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Radioactive Contamination Worries Linger in Japanese Food Supply, Exports
Radioactive Contamination Worries Linger in Japanese Food Supply, Exports
Added on Jul 20, 2011
Radioactive contamination from the meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant c...
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Tokyo Still Most Expensive City in Asia for Expatriates – Mercer
Tokyo Still Most Expensive City in Asia for Expatriates – Mercer
Added on Jul 15, 2011
According to Mercer’s 2011 Expatriate Cost of Living Survey, released Tuesday, Tokyo is the mo...
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