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Nikkei falters, first 4-wk losing streak in a year

By Masayuki Kitano TOKYO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 0.5 percent on Friday and logged its first four-week losing streak in over a year, with Sony sliding after its new growth strategy failed to...

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Growth and Characterization of Highly Tensile-Strained Ge on In_{x}Ga_{1-x}As Virtual Substrate...

Authors: Yutaka Hoshina, Akira Yamada, Makoto Konagai Tensile-strained Ge is a promising material for Si-based optoelectronic integrated circuits and next-generation high-performance multijunction solar cells. We have grown...

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Interview: Rich Medina funks up the Shelter

Rich Medina, a veteran of the New York music scene, is tearing up the Shelter on Friday night - a party you definitely don't want ...

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Tohoku Regional Accent

is spoken in the northeast region of Japan, in the Akita, Aomori, Fukushima, Iwate, Miyagi and Yamagata prefectures. Not as often heard as the Kanto or Kansai dialects in anime and manga, when it does show up you can be sure...

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NTT DoCoMo moves up date to shut off 2G mobile

Japan's biggest wireless service provider plans to shut off its 2G mobile phone network in March 2011 because most of its customers will have moved on to 3G, the company CEO said Wednesday in Hong Kong.

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China Mobile Still in Talks to Sell IPhone (PC World)

PC World - The world's largest mobile phone service provider by subscribers is still in talks with Apple about offering the iPhone in China even though rival China Unicom started selling the handsets there last month.

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China Mobile still in talks to sell iPhone

The world's largest mobile phone service provider by subscribers is still in talks with Apple about offering the iPhone in China even though rival China Unicom started selling the handsets there last ...

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Goin’ Geeky in Tokyo: Satisfaction and Regret

Copyright © 2009 billywest. Visit the original article at http://sevententotokyo.com/2009/11/goin-geeky-in-tokyo-satisfaction-and-regret/.First, let’s get the satisfaction out of the way. By far, the electronics purchase that...

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Fighters acquire ex-Atlanta pitcher Carlyle

SAPPORO (Kyodo) The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters on Tuesday announced the acquisition of former Atlanta Braves pitcher Buddy Carlyle. The 31-year-old right-hander went 0-1 with an 8.86 ERA in 16 relief appearances for the...

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Crime › Police find bag stained with blood of murdered student

Tuesday 17th November, 06:23 AM JST TOKYO — Police have found a piece of a blood-stained bag that may have been used to carry the body of a murdered 19-year-old university student found on a mountain in Hiroshima Prefecture,...

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