Monday, July 14th, 2008
South Korea will recall its ambassador to Japan after Japan intensified its claim to the ownership of a group of islands controlled by Seoul, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said Monday.
South Korean Ambassador to Japan Kwon Chul- ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Japan has revised the seasonally adjusted industrial output growth in May downward by 0.1 percent to 2.8 percent, said a revised report released Friday.
The index of industrial production in May read 109.3, compared with 100 for the ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Canon, the world's largest maker of digital cameras, plans to build a new plant to keep up with demand of global market, according to media report on Monday.
The new plant will be built in Nagasaki on Japan's southern island of Kyus ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
China will replace Japan as the largest online shopping market in the Asia-Pacific region in 2010,with 480 million online shoppers spending 1.4 trillion U.S. dollars, a MasterCard survey said on Thursday.
The survey, which analyzes ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is planning to visit Japan on July 8-9 to attend the annual summit of Group-Eight (G8), the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae announced Wednesday.
On the sidelines of the summit to be held in Toy ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
The dollar rose against most major currencies on Monday as reports showed economic weakness in Europe and Japan.
The latest euro zone provisional PMI indices for the manufacturing and services sectors both fell below 50 to reveal a ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Singapore, the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), on Monday welcomed Japan's ratification of the ASEAN-Japan economic agreement.
The Japanese Diet approved the ASEAN-Japan Comprehensive Economic Par ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Toyota Motor Corp. denied it had received any
funding from the Japanese government to develop its hit Prius gas-electric
hybrid car. Japan's top automaker rejected a March 24 Business Week report that
quoted Jim Press, vice chairman and president of Chrysler LLC and a former
board member at Toyota, as saying, "The Japanese government ...
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