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Level-5 still has no plans for Professor Layton on Wii

A portion of an ONM interview with Level-5’s Akihiro Hino… ONM: What’s next for the Layton series? Will we ever see it on Wii? And will future Layton games always take the form of puzzle-based adventures? AH: This trilogy comes...

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Hino Motors' chief arrives in Riyadh today

Yoshio Shirai, president and member of the board of Hino Motors Ltd., Japan arrives today on an official visit. He is accompanied by other officials of Hino Motors and Toyota Tsucho Corporation, the Japanese trading house....

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Soccer: Cash-strapped Oita set to approach J-League for loan

Cash-strapped Oita Trinita are set approach the J-League to ask for financial assistance following the Kyushu club's recent relegation to the second division, it was learned Monday. Second-division FC Gifu and Thespa Kusatsu...

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ASIMO runs, like a Japanese... (Video)

K Moriyama, probably the best and most knowledgeable science and technology writer in Japan, managed to catch Honda’s ASIMO robot running almost directly head-on. While experts seem fond of debating whether or not the famous...

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1 vending machine nets 1.5 billion Yen for city

BY MASAYOSHI CHIBA,THE ASAHI SHIMBUN OSAKA--A cigarette retailer is exploiting a legal loophole to earn massive kickbacks from a municipality for drastically increasing its tobacco tax revenue. The retailer owns just one...

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Business › Tobacco tax could be raised to 'levels in Europe': health minister

Sunday 01st November, 11:12 AM JST TOKYO — Japan’s tobacco tax could be raised to the levels in Europe, health minister Akira Nagatsuma said Sunday, reiterating a proposal by his ministry that has been forwarded to the...

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Politics › 36 prefectural governors oppose freezing new road construction

Sunday 01st November, 04:34 AM JST TOKYO — Thirty-six of Japan’s 47 prefectural governors are opposed to the government’s policy of basically freezing construction of new roads, a Kyodo News survey showed Saturday. The survey...

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Nikkei hits 3-week closing low below 10,000

TOKYO: Japan s Nikkei average slid below 10,000 to a three-week closing low on Thursday as a strong yen hurt exporter shares and weak U.S. data renewed worry about global economic growth, sparking a broad sell-off on Wall...

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Siberian company building up cooperation with Japan in nanotechnologies.

TOKYO, October 29 (Itar-Tass) - Russian company Sun is eyeing opportunities for an expanded cooperation with Japan in the field of nanotechnologies, Vladislav Mirchev, the president of Sun Innovations Ltd. told Itar-Tass Thursday.

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In Japan's managed landscape, a struggle to save the bears

Although it is a heavily urbanised nation, two-thirds of Japan remains woodlands. Yet many of the forests are timber plantations inhospitable to wildlife, especially black bears, which are struggling to survive in one of the...

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