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2012/05/27 10:22

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Harley museum to display Softail swept to sea by ...

... the sand. Yokoyama, who lost three members of his family in the March 11, 2011, tsunami, was located through the license plate number, Fuji TV reported Wednesday. / AP Photo/Kyodo news, Peter...

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2012/05/27 08:12

10h

yen-yuan direct trading from june

... the current "cross rate" system that involves the US dollar in setting yen-yuan rates, Kyodo news said. The two governments are eyeing setting up markets in Tokyo and Shanghai, the...

2012/05/26 23:12

19h

Two US men held in Japan after Irish student's de...

... when she was found dead early Thursday in a Tokyo hotel room, national broadcaster NHK and Kyodo news said. An autopsy showed she may have been strangled, Kyodo reported. The men, aged 19...

2012/05/26 15:53

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Japan pledges $500m for Pacific islands

UN Security Council. Fiji, a member of the Pacific Islands Forum, skipped this year's summit, the Kyodo news agency reported. Japan last week said it had not invited Fijian strongman Voreqe...

2012/05/26 07:54

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Japan chip maker Renesas 'may cut 14,000 jobs'

... or scaling down other plants, said the Nikkei and the Asahi Shimbun newspapers as well as Kyodo news. Renesas, which lost 62.6 billion yen ($785 million) in the year to March, also plans to...

2012/05/26 06:44

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Japan eyes smaller nuclear share but no ‘exit’ st...

... crisis, told reporters on Friday. “Fifteen percent (by 2030) would be in line with that,” Kyodo news agency quoted him as saying after a meeting of expert advisers to the government the...

2012/05/25 17:46

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Japan's fugitive penguin caught after two months ...

... the BBC, Tokyo Sea Life Park deputy director Kazuhiro Sakamoto told Japan's Kyodo news agency that he was "relieved to see the penguin come back alive." After a sighting that...

2012/05/25 09:19

2d

Oil price falls as supplies grow

That's a bigger increase than analysts expected, and more could be on the way. Japan's Kyodo news agency reported that the U.S. will ask other countries to release spare oil reserves when...

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2012/05/24 01:00

3d

Magnitude-6.1 Earthquake Shakes Northeastern Japan

... kilometers (66 miles) northeast of Hachinohe at a depth of 40 kilometers (25 miles). Japan's Kyodo news agency says the quake shook Aomori prefecture (state) and other areas of northeastern...

2012/05/23 05:05

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Chinese military leader cancels Japan visit for '...

... well as a visit to the base of Japan's Self-defence Forces. Citing diplomatic sources, Japan's Kyodo news agency on Saturday said Guo's visit was postponed in protest due to the Diaoyu Islands...

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2012/05/20 19:41

6d

Japanese Woman Becomes Oldest to Climb Everest

... in the past weeks due to bad weather,” Tilak Pandey, a Nepalese tourism official, told Kyodo news agency. The retired office worker was the leader of the expedition that consisted of...

2012/05/18 22:47

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Oil slips to post third weekly decline

... tapping strategic oil reserves ahead of the EU's July embargo of Iranian crude, according to a Kyodo news report. Success of such a diplomatic effort would add to pressure on Iran, already...

2012/05/18 04:41

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Roundup: Japan’s GDP expands in January-March

... beats an average forecast of 3.3 percent expansion by private-sector analysts in a Kyodo news survey. Consumer spending, which accounts for about 60 percent of the nation’s GDP,...

2012/05/17 19:58

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donga.com[English donga]

... to import luxury items banned by the United Nations through intermediaries in China, Kyodo news of Japan said Thursday. A diplomatic source who spoke on the condition of anonymity and...

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2012/05/17 11:02

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Oil Trades Near Six-Month Low on Stockpiles, Stra...

... the full implementation of the European Union's ban on imports from Iran starting July, the Kyodo news service reported, citing unidentified officials familiar with Japan-U.S. ties. Crude for...

2012/05/17 01:15

10d

Eagle Ford to be No. 2 shale play

... oil imported into the U.S., fell by $1.70 to finish at $109.75 per barrel in London. Japan's Kyodo news agency reported that the U.S. will ask other countries to release spare oil reserves when...

2012/05/16 22:46

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U.S. to seek G8 support for oil reserve release: ...

Eight leaders at a summit this weekend before the European Union's July embargo of Iranian crude, Kyodo news agency reported on Wednesday. The report suggests that a slide in oil prices to their...