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Reuters - Business News, 24.04.13 05:31 UTC

Asian shares rise on firm U.S. earnings, soft money outlook

By Chikako Mogi TOKYO | Wed Apr 24, 2013 1:14am EDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares advanced on Wednesday, tracking global equities higher on the back of solid U.S. earnings, but the euro was ...

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Reuters - Business News, 24.04.13 05:20 UTC

BOJ's new price forecasts Friday to be credibility test

By Leika Kihara TOKYO | Wed Apr 24, 2013 1:07am EDT TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is set on Friday to project that it will meet its 2 percent inflation target in two years, a forecast analysts ...

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Reuters - Business News, 23.04.13 16:44 UTC

Bank of Japan QE needed, but structural reforms also important

By Stanley White TOKYO | Tue Apr 23, 2013 12:19pm EDT TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan should stick with its expanded quantitative easing to achieve its inflation target, but this may not be ...

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Daily Mail, 23.04.13 16:43 UTC

Tokyo in 101 faces: Photographer charts Japanese life from cradle to grave in fascinating portraits of people aged one to 100

PUBLISHED: 16:15 GMT, 23 April 2013 | UPDATED: 16:30 GMT, 23 April 2013 Some are old enough to remember the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, while others are old enough to hold memories of bombing raids ...

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Daily Mail, 23.04.13 16:06 UTC

Tensions between Japan and China deepen after flotilla of activists sails close to disputed islands and politicians visit war shrine

PUBLISHED: 13:00 GMT, 23 April 2013 | UPDATED: 13:02 GMT, 23 April 2013 Tensions between Japan and China sparked by a row over a group of disputed islands have deepened after a flotilla of boats ...

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Reuters - Business News, 23.04.13 11:21 UTC

Bank of Japan QE needed, but structural reforms also important: OECD

By Stanley White TOKYO | Tue Apr 23, 2013 6:59am EDT TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan should stick with its expanded quantitative easing to achieve its inflation target, but this may not be enough ...

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Seattle Times, 23.04.13 11:10 UTC

Japan war shrine reflects ruling party nationalism

Visits by Cabinet ministers and lawmakers to a shrine honoring Japan's war dead, including 14 World War II leaders convicted of atrocities, signal Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's determination to pursue a more nationalist agenda after months of focusing on the economy.

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CNN Top Stories, 23.04.13 10:22 UTC

China, Japan ships crowd disputed isles

Hong Kong (CNN) -- The fragile relationship between China and Japan came under fresh strain Tuesday as ships from both sides crowded into the waters around a disputed group of islands and nearly 170 ...

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CNN Top Stories, 23.04.13 10:10 UTC

Better economy means shorter skirts

Tokyo (CNN) -- Most Japanese treat Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's new economic program, dubbed "Abenomics," with a heavy dose of skepticism. If there is a miracle cure for Japan's decades-long malaise, ...

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Reuters - Business News, 23.04.13 09:01 UTC

Japan government warns Mitsubishi Motors over recall delays

TOKYO | Tue Apr 23, 2013 4:43am EDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's transport ministry told Mitsubishi Motors Corp (7211.T) on Tuesday that it must conduct vehicle recalls more quickly after discovering ...

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Tokyo, officially Tokyo Metropolis, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and is located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the city of Tokyo in the eastern part of the prefecture, totaling over 8 million people. The population of the prefecture exceeds 12 million. The prefecture is the ce...

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