Archive for March, 2008
The Japan Times was among a select band of U.S. and international media outlets announced Friday as the winners of the 22nd Genesis Awards at a star-studded ceremony in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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TOKYO - An anonymous baby “drop box” in southern Japan received three more babies in March, bringing the total number of children left in the shelter to 15 since its opening last May, a report said Monday. The Catholic-run Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto […]
BEIJING (AFP)–China and Japan held two and a half hours of defense consultations in Beijing Monday, with Taiwan on the agenda, Chinese state media reported.
Japan industrial output down 1.2 percent (Moldova.org)
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Japan, citing weaker demand for microchips and paper products, Monday reported its February industrial output was off 1.2 percent from January.It was the second consecutive month of such decline. January showed a 2.2 percent decline. It was the first back-to-back month decline in nine months, Kyodo news service reported.The Economic and Trade Ministry’s in its preliminary report, however, said …
Japan industrial output down 1.2 percent (UPI)
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Japan, citing weaker demand for microchips and paper products, Monday reported its February industrial output was off 1.2 percent from January.
March 31 (Bloomberg) — Japan’s stocks fell, capping the worst first quarter in 18 years, on growing signs consumer spending is slowing in the nation’s biggest export market.
March 31 (Bloomberg) — Japan’s 10-year bonds completed the best quarter since 2006 on speculation a slowdown in the U.S. will weigh on growth in the world’s second-largest economy.
March 31 (Bloomberg) — Japan’s five-year notes rose after a government report showed manufacturers cut production in February for a second month as the U.S., the country’s biggest export market, verged on a recession.
by Staff Writers Tokyo (AFP) March 29, 2008 Japan completed deploying a ballistic missile defence system in the Tokyo area on Saturday, a day after North Korea reportedly fired short-range missiles off its west coast, news reports said.
Japan completed deploying a ballistic missile defence system in the Tokyo area on Saturday, a day after North Korea reportedly fired short-range missiles off its west coast, news reports said.