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Sony: Portable consoles more interesting in Japan

Sony: Portable consoles more interesting in Japan

Japanese gaming fans are shifting toward portable consoles, even if the experts of the industry find it difficult to understand the exact reasons, according to Sony officials. In…

3DS, fastest-selling Japanese console

3DS, fastest-selling Japanese console

Nintendo’s portable gaming console 3DS is the fastest device to reach 5 million unit sales in Japan, according to the company. It took the 3DS about 52 weeks…

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Chinese city upset by Japanese denial of historic massacre

Chinese city upset by Japanese denial of historic massacre

The sister-city relationship between the Japanese city of Nagoya and the Chinese city of Nanjing…

Female coach in Japan looking for more than wins

Female coach in Japan looking for more than wins

TOKYO (AP) — As the only female coach in Japan’s professional basketball league,  knows there…

Olympus India executive dead in apparent suicide

Olympus India executive dead in apparent suicide

NEW DELHI (AP) — Police say an executive at an Indian subsidiary of scandal-plagued Olympus…

Sony: Portable consoles more interesting in Japan

Sony: Portable consoles more interesting in Japan

Japanese gaming fans are shifting toward portable consoles, even if the experts of the industry…

Business

China e-commerce firm Alibaba tries to go private

China e-commerce firm Alibaba tries to go private

HONG KONG (AP) — Alibaba.com’s parent company wants to take the Chinese e-commerce company private for $2.5 billion, the firms said Tuesday, part of a shift in business…

Japan Airlines sets ambitious 5-year development plan

Japan Airlines sets ambitious 5-year development plan

Japan Airlines Co president Yoshiharu Uetki said that the company, which is recovering after filing for bankruptcy in 2010, intends to raise its operating profit to Y140 billion…

Alibaba to reach out to Yahoo CEO on stalled deal

Alibaba to reach out to Yahoo CEO on stalled deal

HONG KONG (AP) — Alibaba Group and Japan’s Softbank will go directly to Yahoo’s chief executive, bypassing negotiators from the U.S. Internet company, after talks over the sale…

Olympus ex-chairman, other execs arrested in probe

Olympus ex-chairman, other execs arrested in probe

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese prosecutors Thursday arrested three former Olympus Corp. executives including the company’s ex-chairman over their alleged roles in orchestrating a cover-up of massive losses at…

National

Tokyo threatened by “the Bigger One”

Tokyo threatened by “the Bigger One”

The next powerful quake to hit the Japanese capital in the future could be up to magnitude 7, more intense than…

Japan has cleaned up only 5 percent of disaster rubble

Japan has cleaned up only 5 percent of disaster rubble

Only five percent of the quantity of rubble left by the 2011 Great Tohoku Quake and tsunami has been cleared so…

Entertainment

Sony criticized for lifting prices of Whitney Houston’s music after her death

Sony Music raised the price to Whitney Houston’s music within 30 minutes of her death, raising criticism among fans. The music became more expensive on electronic retail…

China

Chinese city upset by Japanese denial of historic massacre

The sister-city relationship between the Japanese city of Nagoya and the Chinese city of Nanjing has been suspended, after Nagoya’s mayor said to a visiting Chinese delegation…

Korea

South Korean indicted for re-tweeting North Korean messages

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean prosecutors have indicted a Socialist Party member on charges that he reposted messages from a North Korean government Twitter account,…

South East Asia

Thailand questions ‘open door’ after terror plot

BANGKOK (AP) — Unwinding with bar girls at a beach town came first. Building bombs was allegedly for later. The three Iranians detained in Bangkok and accused…

National

Tokyo threatened by “the Bigger One”

The next powerful quake to hit the Japanese capital in the future could be up to magnitude 7, more intense than the 2011 Great Tohoku Quake, estimated…

Politics

Ex-PM Kan: Building a nuclear-free Japan is possible

Former premier Naoto Kan, who was leading the government at the time of the 2011 Great Tohoku Quake, said in an interview that he changed his way…

Technology

Sony: Portable consoles more interesting in Japan

Japanese gaming fans are shifting toward portable consoles, even if the experts of the industry find it difficult to understand the exact reasons, according to Sony officials.…

Business

China e-commerce firm Alibaba tries to go private

HONG KONG (AP) — Alibaba.com’s parent company wants to take the Chinese e-commerce company private for $2.5 billion, the firms said Tuesday, part of a shift in…