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PINTEREST GETS $100MN, LED BY JAPAN'S RAKUTEN Japanese online giant Rakuten announced Thursday it was leading a $100 million investment in Pinterest, a fast-growing US bulletin-board style social media website. 05/17/2012 17:32, Yahoo!News	SUPPORT YOUR COUNTRY IN STYLE: CONRAN SHOP LAUNCH FLAG SCARVES AHEAD OF OLYMPICS For fashionistas looking to support their country with panache during the upcoming Olympic Games, international contemporary design store The Conran Shop has launched a collection of flag scarves available in the Stars and Stripes, Union Jack, French Tricolor and the Japanese Hinomaru. 05/17/2012 15:14, Yahoo!News
APPLE READIES IPHONE WITH BIGGER SCREEN: SOURCES TOKYO (Reuters) - Apple Inc plans to use a larger screen on the next-generation iPhone and has begun to place orders for the new displays from suppliers in South Korea and Japan, people familiar with the situation said on Wednesday. The new iPhone screens will measure 4 inches from corner to corner,... 05/17/2012 10:46, Yahoo!News	PINTEREST RAISES $100 MILLION IN FUNDING: WSJ (Reuters) - Pinterest, the increasingly popular online bulletin board, raised $100 million in a financing round that values the U.S. start-up at $1.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. The funding is led by Japanese e-commerce site Rakuten, with Pinterest&... 05/17/2012 09:48, Yahoo!News
TOSHIBA EYES $5.9 BILLION OPERATING PROFIT BY 2014-15 TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's biggest chip maker, Toshiba Corp, said on Thursday its annual operating profit is likely to reach 470 billion yen ($5.9 billion) by the business year ending in March 2015. In its mid-term business plan, the electronics conglomerate also said its capital spending for the... 05/17/2012 09:48, Yahoo!News	ELPIDA SELLING OVER 50 PERCENT OF MOBILE CHIPS TO APPLE: SOURCE SEOUL (Reuters) - Japan's Elpida Memory Inc has been supplying more than 50 percent of its production of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip for mobile devices to Apple Inc since late last year, a source with direct knowledge of Elpida's sales breakdown said on Thursday. "Elpida res... 05/17/2012 03:34, Yahoo!News
JAPAN FIRM UNVEILS GESTURE CONTROLLING DEVICE Japanese technology titan NEC has unveiled a gadget that allows users to control their TV, mobile phone or tablet computer using a virtual input device. 05/16/2012 22:44, Yahoo!News	JOHN WOO DIRECTING REMAKE OF JAPANESE MOB MOVIE LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - John Woo, the Hong Kong action maestro, will bring his stylistic flare to a remake of "Day of the Beast." Woo will direct the English-language update of Seijun Suzuki's 1963 Japanese film, as well as co-produce. "Day of the Beast" centers on a turf war... 05/16/2012 22:22, Yahoo!News
MICRON UP ON REPORT OF ELPIDA CONTRACT WITH APPLE Shares of chip-maker Micron Technology Inc. rose Wednesday as investors hoped that the Japanese company Micron is in talks to buy recently received a big order from Apple Inc. 05/16/2012 21:46, Yahoo!News	VIDEO: ONE-ARM ROBOT JUGGLES TWO BALLS AT ONCE A one-armed robot has learned to juggle two balls at once, an impressive feat that promises to shed light on dynamic human motions, according to the Japanese researchers behind the machine. 05/16/2012 10:07, msnbc
JAPAN'S DOCOMO TO LAUNCH SMART PHONES FOR ELDERLY Leading Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo on Wednesday unveiled its first smart phone specially designed for elderly users, as the company bids to tap into an ageing consumer population. 05/16/2012 19:50, Yahoo!News	APPLE READIES IPHONE WITH BIGGER SCREEN-SOURCES TOKYO (Reuters) - Apple Inc plans to use a larger screen on the next-generation iPhone and has begun to place orders for the new displays from suppliers in South Korea and Japan, people familiar with the situation said on Wednesday. The new iPhone screens will measure 4 inches from corner to corner,... 05/16/2012 19:50, Yahoo!News
NEXT IPHONE WILL HAVE 4-INCH SCREEN: REPORT Apple plans to use a larger screen on the next-generation iPhone and has begun to place orders for the new displays from suppliers in South Korea and Japan, people familiar with the situation said on Wednesday. The new iPhone screens will measure 4 inches from corner to corner, one source said. 05/16/2012 09:42, msnbc	APPLE'S NEXT IPHONE WILL HAVE A 4-INCH DISPLAY, WSJ SAYS [UPDATED] Apple's sixth-generation iPhone handset will reportedly feature a larger display that measures "at least 4 inches diagonally." Mirroring numerous earlier reports, The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday cited multiple anonymous sources in claiming that Apple's next iPhone will include ... 05/16/2012 16:56, Yahoo!News
JAPANESE LESBIAN CAN'T WAIT FOR DISNEYLAND "WEDDING" TOKYO (Reuters) - Like many Japanese women, Koyuki Higashi adores Tokyo Disneyland. So it was only natural that she would want to hold her wedding there, as many other couples have done. "My partner and I just love going to Disneyland, so when we saw a pamphlet advertising wedding receptions by ... 05/16/2012 15:58, Yahoo!News	APPLE'S NEXT IPHONE WILL HAVE A 4-INCH DISPLAY, WSJ SAYS Apple's sixth-generation iPhone handset will reportedly feature a larger display that measures "at least 4 inches diagonally." Mirroring numerous earlier reports, The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday cited multiple anonymous sources in claiming that Apple's next iPhone will include ... 05/16/2012 15:58, Yahoo!News
SONY AND PANASONIC IN TALKS TO MAKE OLED TVS Sony and Panasonic are reportedly in talks to develop the technology needed to mass produce next-generation OLED televisions, according to Reuters. The two companies would be playing catch up to their South Korean rivals, Samsung and LG, both of which plan to market 55-inch OLED TVs later this year... 05/16/2012 15:00, Yahoo!News	SAMSUNG LOSES $10 BILLION MARKET VALUE ON APPLE ORDER REPORT SEOUL (Reuters) - Shares in Samsung Electronics Co slumped more than 6 percent on Wednesday, wiping $10 billion off the electronics giant's market value, on a report that Apple placed huge chip orders with troubled Japanese chip rival Elpida. Taiwan's DigiTimes, an online trade news site, re... 05/16/2012 13:04, Yahoo!News
OKADA BETS TO WIN WITH FINE DINING AND CASINOS HONG KONG (Reuters) - Kazuo Okada, the Japanese billionaire engaged in a fierce legal battle with Las Vegas casino tycoon Steve Wynn, is diversifying his pachinko company with a string of his own restaurants and is negotiating to build a casino resort in South Korea. On Tuesday, Okada opened a 25,00... 05/16/2012 01:28, Yahoo!News	MAGNETIC BOX INSTANTLY WIPES HARD DRIVES CLEAN A Japanese company has created a device that will instantly erase all the data on a drive, a breakthrough that could make shredding digital information simple and recycling your old laptop less risky. 05/14/2012 11:14, msnbc
MAGNETIC BOX INSTANTLY WIPES HARD DRIVES CLEAN A Japanese company has created a device that will instantly erase all the data on a drive, a breakthrough that could make shredding digital information simple and recycling your old laptop less risky. 05/14/2012 10:49, msnbc	CANON EYES ROBOT-ONLY PRODUCTION FOR CAMERAS Canon Inc. is moving toward fully automating digital camera production in an effort to cut costs — a key change being played out across Japan, a world leader in robotics. 05/14/2012 14:14, Yahoo!News
BOOKER T. & THE MGS BASSIST DONALD "DUCK" DUNN DIES AT 70 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn, a member of Booker T. & the MGs whose thick bottom grooves anchored many of the classic soul hits from the 1960s, has died on tour in Japan, his friend and bandmate Steve Cropper said on Sunday. Dunn was 70. Dunn, an integral part of the Me... 05/14/2012 12:56, Yahoo!News	CHINA, SOUTH KOREA AND JAPAN SEEK TRADING PACT The leaders of China, South Korea and Japan also agreed to try to calm tensions on the Korean Peninsula. 05/13/2012 17:56, NewYork Times
CHINA, SKOREA, JAPAN TRY TO EASE NKOREA TENSIONS BEIJING (AP) -- The leaders of China, South Korea and Japan said Sunday that they will work together to try to calm tensions on the Korean peninsula. The three largest East Asian economies also took steps toward deepening their economic ties by laying the groundwork for a regional free trade are... 05/13/2012 00:42, AssociatedPress	A DODGERS FAN IN YANKEES PINSTRIPES IN POSTWAR JAPAN When C. J. Hoppin was 13, living with his family in Japan, he was briefly a bat boy for the Yankees, who were on a six-week tour of the Pacific islands. 05/13/2012 00:42, NewYork Times
RESEARCHERS: JAPAN WILL HAVE NO KIDS UNDER AGE 15 BY 3011 Japan will have no children under the age of 15 in 999 years if current trends continue, according to researchers at Tohoku University Graduate School of Economics in Sendai. 05/13/2012 00:42, msnbc	CHINA, JAPAN, S. KOREA OK FREE-TRADE TALKS Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says Sunday that China, Japan and South Korea agree to launch talks for a free-trade area this year. 05/13/2012 00:42, msnbc
BIG FAULT UNDER JAPAN'S MOUNT FUJI TO TRIGGER QUAKE? Japan's Mount Fuji may be sitting on a large, active fault that could trigger a magnitude-7 earthquake, changing the shape of the mountain and devastating nearby communities, the education ministry said. 05/11/2012 07:07, msnbc	PANASONIC SHARES HIT 30-YEAR LOW ON LOSS - CNN The company blamed the annual loss on a number of factors including a drop in domestic demand due to electricity shortages in the aftermath of the Japan earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 .<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_news_international/~4/b148ThGObyU" height="1" width="1"... 05/11/2012 05:42, CNN
PANASONIC LOSS BALLOONS FOR RECORD RED INK Panasonic's January-March losses ballooned 10-fold to 438 billion yen ($5 billion), completing a year of record red ink at the Japanese electronics maker battered by natural disasters and an ailing TV business. 05/11/2012 12:22, Yahoo!News	PANASONIC SHARES HIT 30-YEAR LOW ON LOSS Japanese electronics company Panasonic has plunged from profit to a record annual loss of 772.2 billion yen ($9.68 billion), prompting its shares to fall to a 30-year low.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=eGTL9uWfybA:3LXwHolEx58:yIl2AUoC8zA"><im... 05/11/2012 01:35, CNN
PANASONIC LOSSES BALLOON AMID DISASTER, STRONG YEN Panasonic's January-March losses have ballooned 10-fold to 438 billion yen ($5 billion), completing a year of record red ink at the Japanese electronics maker battered by natural disasters and an ailing TV business. 05/11/2012 11:24, Yahoo!News	USC TO AWARD DEGREES TO JAPANESE INTERNED DURING WWII USC is awarding degrees to Japanese students who were forced out during World War II, but some say the school hasn't corrected all past wrongs.Friday morning, the USC campus will be filled with smiling students posing for pictures next to the most important people in their lives. For Hitoshi Sameshi... 05/11/2012 00:21, LaTimes
SPACEX, BIGELOW TOUT PRIVATE SPACE STATIONS Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: SpaceX and Bigelow Aerospace plan to meet with Japanese officials soon to kick off an international marketing effort for private-sector space stations. 05/10/2012 19:56, msnbc	SONY REPORTS RECORD ANNUAL LOSS OF $5.7 BILLION Sony on Thursday reported a net loss of $3.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011 to close its fourth straight year in the red. The electronics and entertainment giant struggled throughout the year, reporting an annual loss of $5.7 billion, the worst in the company's 66-year history. Sony's... 05/11/2012 04:18, Yahoo!News
GIANT ROBOT PUTS YOU IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT Tomorrow's world is staring you in the face, in the form of a 13-foot-tall robot capable of fitting a human pilot inside. Japanese robot enthusiasts have begun building that futuristic vision - and they have several clever ideas for controlling the nearly five-ton robot. 05/10/2012 11:35, msnbc	FAMILY TO SUE OVER SUICIDE AFTER JAPAN TSUNAMI, NUKE MELTDOWN The family of a 58-year-old Japanese woman who set herself on fire after the 2011 quake and tsunami will file a lawsuit against the operator of a nuclear plant that went into meltdown after the giant wave hit, local media reports say. 05/10/2012 08:56, msnbc
SONY POSTS $5.6-BILLION LOSS, 10% DROP IN SALES Sony Corp. posted a record $5.6-billion annual loss Thursday, ending a fiscal year marred by global economic turmoil and the after-effects of last spring's earthquake and tsunami in Japan and last fall's floods in Thailand. 05/10/2012 07:42, LaTimes	HARRY POTTER 'WIZARDING WORLD' TO OPEN IN JAPAN NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Harry Potter is taking his act to Japan as Warner Bros. and Universal team to bring the "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter" to the Universal Studios in Osaka. 05/10/2012 07:21, msnbc
HARRY POTTER'S WORLD COMING TO UNIVERSAL STUDIOS JAPAN Universal Studios Japan plans to build the first international version of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Osaka. The attraction is to open in late 2014.Having cast a spell in Orlando and planted his flag in Los Angeles, Harry Potter is now taking his theme park magic across the Pacific. 05/10/2012 06:49, LaTimes	SONY SEES RETURN TO PROFIT, AIMS TO HALVE TV LOSSES TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp predicted a return to profit this year as it looks to halve the losses in its TV business that pushed the Japanese consumer electronics giant to a record loss of $5.74 billion in the year just ended. Sony shares, valued at around $15 billion or just 3 percent of rival App... 05/10/2012 14:56, Yahoo!News
INSTANT VIEW-SONY FORECASTS REBOUND TO PROFIT AFTER RECORD LOSS TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony Corp posted a record net loss of 457 billion yen ($5.7 billion) for the year just ended, hit by losses from its TV business, but forecast a return to profit at an operating level in the current year. KEY POINTS - Sony sees annual operating p... 05/10/2012 14:56, Yahoo!News	JAPAN OKS USD 12.6 BLN CAPITAL INJECTION FOR FUKUSHIMA PLANT OPERATOR (MENAFN - Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) The Japanese government on Wednesday approved a JPY 1 trillion (USD 12.6 billion) public bailout for the operator of the quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ... 05/10/2012 03:28, MENAFN
JAPAN TO INJECT ONE TRILLION YEN ($12.5 BILLION) INTO NUCLEAR PLANT OPERATOR (MENAFN - Saudi Press Agency) The Japanese government decided Wednesday to inject 1 trillion yen (12.5 billion dollars) of public funds into Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) as part of a 10-year ... 05/10/2012 03:28, MENAFN	BRAZIL ABANDONS PLANS TO BUILD NEW NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS (MENAFN - Saudi Press Agency) Brazil announced Wednesday it has abandoned plans to build new nuclear power stations in the coming years, following last yearÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Fukushima disaster in Japan. ... 05/10/2012 03:28, MENAFN
MICRON IN TALKS TO ACQUIRE JAPANESE CHIPMAKER U.S. chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. said Thursday it is in talks to acquire Elpida Memory Inc., which earlier this year filed for Japan's largest-ever manufacturing bankruptcy. 05/10/2012 11:04, Yahoo!News	ELPIDA: MICRON IN TALKS ON POSSIBLE INVESTMENT TOKYO (Reuters) - Elpida Memory Inc said on Thursday that it is in talks with Micron Technology on a possible investment in the Japanese chipmaker, which has filed for bankruptcy protection. Elpida said in a statement that Micron Technology had won the right to negotiate to buy the company. The anno... 05/10/2012 10:06, Yahoo!News
HARRY POTTER "WIZARDING WORLD" TO OPEN IN JAPAN NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Harry Potter is taking his act to Japan as Warner Bros. and Universal team to bring the "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter" to the Universal Studios in Osaka. Glenn Gumpel, president and CEO of Universal Studios Japan, will make the announcement on Thursday alongsi... 05/10/2012 03:54, Yahoo!News	HARRY POTTER HEADS TO UNIVERSAL STUDIOS JAPAN Universal Studios Japan on Thursday will unveil plans to build the first international version of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the blockbuster attraction that has drawn millions of fans to Universal¿s Orlando resort and is coming to Los Angeles. 05/09/2012 15:00, LaTimes