LG Electronics will steal a march on its rivals by bringing forward the launch of a 55-inch flat TV using next-generation technology, raising the stakes in a cut-throat battle for the living room between Asia's top tech powerhouses.
(Reuters)
As technology shifts, Asian giants wrestle for TV control
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Game firms cap teen spending
Major social networking game operators Gree Inc. and DeNA Co. have decided to limit young users' monthly spending on their game content at ¥10,000, sources said Tuesday.
They made the decisions in response to growing calls for such caps to be introduced as many young customers tend to spend tens of thousands of yen a month partly to obtain game characters.
(Japan Times)
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Teen doing 50 kph when he hit victims
The unlicensed teen who drove a minivehicle into a line of schoolchildren Monday in the city of Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, leaving two dead and injuring eight others, accelerated to about 50 kph just before the impact, police sources said Tuesday.
(Japan Times)
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Firm evaded taxes on singer's goods
Tokyo tax authorities have accused a company president of evading taxes totaling ¥48 million by inflating costs for making T-shirts and other goods featuring female pop singer Aiko, sources said Tuesday.
(Japan Times)
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Shielding kids from parental abuse
A revised civil law came into force on April 1 with a provision for suspending parental prerogatives for up to two years to protect children from parental violence or neglect. The revised civil law also makes clear that parental protection and education of children must be done for the sake of the children's interests.
(Japan Times)
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Nissan sees yen as '1,000-pound gorilla' curbing sales
Nissan Motor Co. said sales at Japan's second-biggest automaker may reach 10 trillion yen ($123 billion) this year depending on the strength of a currency Chief Executive Officer Carlos Ghosn compared with an over-sized ape.
(BusinessWeek)
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Japan fears nuclear plant sits atop active geological fault
A nuclear plant in northwestern Japan may be sitting right on top of an active geological fault, the country's nuclear watchdog has said, raising the risk that the facility may never resume power generation for fear of an earthquake.
(Reuters)
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Japan astronomers find most distant galaxy cluster
Japanese astronomers said Wednesday they had found a cluster of galaxies 12.72 billion light-years away from Earth, which they claim is the most distant cluster ever discovered. Using a powerful telescope based in Hawaii, the team peered back through time to a point just one billion years after the Big Bang, the birth of the universe.
(AFP)
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Anti-TPP campaign befuddles Washington
Japan's agricultural lobby has taken its campaign against a global free trade agreement to the U.S., buying a full-page advertisement in Tuesday's Washington Post opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership. (Wall Street Journal)
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Japan's 'Shadow Shogun' to hear trial verdict
One of the biggest figures in Japan's political scene is set to hear his fate on Thursday when a court delivers its verdict on a years-old funding scandal.
Prosecutors have demanded Ichiro Ozawa, once dubbed the "Shadow Shogun", be jailed three years over allegations he conspired with aides to hide 400 million yen ($4.9 million) he lent to his political funding body in 2004 to facilitate a land deal.
(AFP)
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Japan fears nuclear plant sits atop active geological fault
A nuclear plant in northwestern Japan may be sitting right on top of an active geological fault, the country's nuclear watchdog has said, raising the risk that the facility may never resume power generation for fear of an earthquake.
(chicagotribune.com)
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Facial soap's surprise wheat ingredient triggers allergies
A class-action lawsuit over a bar of facial soap in Japan is making some there question the meaning of "all natural."
The soap that has gone on trial this month is Cha no Shizuku, roughly translated as "a drop of tea," a green tea-based cleansing bar popular among Japanese women and valued for its so-called natural purity.
(Fox News)
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Thousands in Japan protest Asia Pacific trade pact
Thousands of farmers rallied in Tokyo on Wednesday against an Pacific-wide free trade pact as Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's prepares for a visit to the United States.
Noda had reportedly been looking to announce Japan would become a full-fledged participant in talks on framing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) during his trip to Washington next week.
(brecorder.com)
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Stocks bounce back on overseas rally
Stocks rebounded in Tokyo on Wednesday, buoyed by overnight rallies in U.S. and European equities and the yen's fall.
The 225-issue Nikkei average closed up 92.97 points, or 0.98 percent, at 9,561.01. On Tuesday, the key market gauge dropped 74.13 points.
(Yomiuri)
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Private univs coy on fall enrollment
More than 70 percent of private universities and colleges are taking a wait-and-see approach to whether to change undergraduate enrollment from spring to autumn, according to a survey.
(Yomiuri)
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Dog 'can detect cancer with high accuracy levels'
A 10-year-old Labrador retriever has been trained to detect gynecological cancer such as uterine cancer with a high level of accuracy.
Marine, a female, was trained in Minami-Boso, Chiba Prefecture, to detect smells specific to cancer, said Masao Miyashita, a professor of Chiba Hokuso Hospital of Nippon Medical School.
(Yomiuri)
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Shibuya revitalization kicks off with Hikarie opening
The high-rise Shibuya Hikarie shopping and entertainment complex next to Shibuya Station opens Thursday, kicking off projects to revitalize the area known as a teen fashion mecca.
The 34-floor glass tower with three basement floors boasts nearly 200 shops, 26 eateries, design and art galleries, office floors and a musical theater with 2,000 seats.
(Japan Times)
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Nikkei ends flat as earnings disappoint
Japan's Nikkei share average
ended flat on Thursday after dipping in and out of negative
territory as a sluggish start to earnings season and wariness
ahead of a Bank of Japan meeting dampened sentiment.
The Nikkei ended at 9,561.83, while the broader
Topix gained 0.1 percent to 810.10.
(Reuters)
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Sony sends 15 million songs to cloud to close iTunes gap
Sony Corp. will probably put songs by Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston online in Japan through its streaming music service. The trouble will be finding listeners who haven't bought them from Apple Inc. in the past seven years. Sony said it will introduce Music Unlimited, a cloud-based catalog of 15 million songs, in its home market by the end of December after rolling it out in 16 other countries first. (Bloomberg)
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Wife, ex-husband found dead in Ibaraki in suspected murder-suicide
A woman and her former husband were found slashed to death in a store parking lot in Ibaraki Prefecture on April 25 in an apparent murder-suicide, police said.
Police received an emergency call from a passerby at about 6:15 p.m. on April 25, reporting a couple collapsed and bleeding in a parking lot in the city of Chikusei. (Mainichi)
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