Archive for June, 2008
Akihiko Honda’s Teiken Promotions has announced today (Monday) that a tripleheader will take place in Yokohama, Japan, on September 15. WBA minimum champ Yutaka Niida (22-1-3, 8 KOs), the longest reigning world champ since 2004, will highly risk his throne in his eighth defense against unbeaten mandatory challenger and fast-rising KO artist Roman Gonzalez (19-0, 17 KOs), a 21-year-old …
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The Fair Trade Commission on Monday ordered Yamada Denki Co, the operator of Japan’s largest consumer electronics retail chain, to end its practice of making staff of product suppliers work at its stores without pay.
Teams from 24 countries, including the US, Canada and Germany, are to set up training camps in Japan ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
Japan, India seal currency deal (The Japan Times)
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Japan and India signed a bilateral currency swap arrangement Monday in which they will provide up to $6 billion in total to prevent a financial crisis, the Finance Ministry said. The conclusion of the currency swap deal came after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited India last August and reached a basic agreement on the pact with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Read the full story …
Japan will send military personnel to Sudan to join U.N. peacekeeping operations in the country’s first military dispatch to the African nation, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Monday.
June 30 (Bloomberg) — The yen rose against the euro, paring its biggest quarterly decline in five years, as Moody’s Investors Service raised Japan’s local-currency debt rating, saying its banks have avoided the worst of the credit crisis.
Teams from 24 countries, including the United States, Canada and Germany, have decided to set up training camps in Japan ahead of the Beijing Olympics, according to a survey released Sunday.
June 30 (Bloomberg) — The yen rose against the euro, paring its biggest quarterly decline in five years, as Moody’s Investors Service raised Japan’s local-currency debt rating.
Japan name Endo in Olympic squad (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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Gamba Osaka midfielder Yasuhito Endo was the only over-age player in Japan’s preliminary 20-member Olympic football squad announced on Monday.
TOKYO (AP) — Teams from 24 countries, including the United States, Canada and Germany, have decided to set up training camps in Japan ahead of the Beijing Olympics.