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Japanese slider disqualified, Britain's Williams leads
Whistler, Canada - Japan's Nozomi Komuro was disqualified before the start of Thursday's Olympic women's skeleton competition because her sled did not have an official sticker. The control sticker was found to be missing in a standard check 35 minute...
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Japanese inflation falls in January
Tokyo - Japan's key consumer price index (CPI) fell 1.3 per cent in January year on year, making it the 11th consecutive month of decline, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said Friday. The CPI, which excludes volatile fresh food pr...
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Bank of Japan keeps key interest rate unchanged
Tokyo - The Bank of Japan decided Thursday to hold its key interest rate steady at 0.1 per cent by unanimous vote as expected and kept its overall assessment of the Japanese economy. At a two-day policy meeting, the BoJ's evaluation remained unchange...
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Honda to recall 437,763 vehicles over faulty air bags
Tokyo - Honda Motor Co said Wednesday it would recall 437,763 vehicles globally over a problem with the driver's airbag inflator. Honda had recalled a total of about 514,000 vehicles for the same problem in 2008 and 2009. Japan's second-largest autom...
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Australians prefer foreign-made cars
Sydney - Imports from Japan, South Korea and now Thailand have overtaken sales of Australian-made cars, figures from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries released Sunday showed. The three local carmakers - Toyota Motor Corp, GM Holden Ltd and...
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Japan's exports surge in January, Asian demand rises - Update
Tokyo - Asian demand helped Japan's exports surge 40.9 per cent in January from a year earlier to 4.9 trillion yen (54.37 billion dollars), the Finance Ministry said Wednesday. It was the second straight monthly increase as shipments of vehicles, aut...
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Whales waylay Australia's good relations with Japan
Sydney - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's surprise threat to take legal action to stop Japan killing whales in Antarctica has drained goodwill from the first visit to Australia by Tokyo's new top diplomat. Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, in the job for ju...
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Philippines sells 1.1-billion-dollar Samurai bonds
Manila - The Philippines Tuesday sold 10-year Samurai bonds worth 1.1 billion dollars to help plug a budget deficit that reached 6.3 billion dollars last year, the government said. The yen-denominated bonds were 95-per-cent guaranteed by the Japan ...
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Japan's exports surge in January, Asian demand rises - Summary
Tokyo - Asian demand helped Japan's exports surge 40.9 per cent in January from a year earlier to 4.9 trillion yen (54.37 billion dollars), the Finance Ministry said Wednesday. It was the second straight monthly increase as shipments of vehicles in J...
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Quake hits Japan's Okinawa island - 2nd Update
Tokyo - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 struck Okinawa Prefecture, about 1,500 kilometers southwest of Tokyo, early Saturday morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. A local police official told Kyodo News Agency that they had...
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7.0 magnitude earthquake hits off Japan's coast - Update
Washington - The US government has reported that a 7.0 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Japan. The earthquake occurred at 2031 GMT Friday and was centred 81 kilometres east of Japan's southern island of Okinawa, the US Geological Surv...
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Japanese stocks rise sharply as more monetary easing expected
Tokyo - Stocks in Tokyo climbed more than 2 per cent in Friday morning trading as the Nikkei business daily reported the Bank of Japan (BoJ) would likely consider more monetary easing through April. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average gained 209.9...
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