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Premium tuna fetches $100,000 US in Tokyo auction

TOKYO - Two sushi bar owners paid more than $100,000 US for a Japanese bluefin tuna at a Tokyo fish auction Monday, about ten times the average price and the highest in nearly a decade, market officials said.

Sony and Toyota struggle but Tokyo Disneyland enjoys recession-proof boom

Visitors pose for a snapshot in front of a Mickey and Minnie’s Christmas display at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu near Tokyo. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Shizuo Kambayashi

French bank Natixis to slash 85% of jobs in Tokyo

French investment bank Natixis, severely hit by the global banking crisis, is to slash jobs at its Tokyo branch from around 100 to 15, a bank spokeswoman said Saturday. But she denied that Natixis was planning to close down its Tokyo offices altogether as reported in the French economy daily La Tribune on Saturday.

Am?lie Nothomb's "Tokyo Fianc?e"

Tokyo Fiancee By Amélie Nothomb. Translated by Alison Anderson. 152 pages. Europa Editions. Paper, $15.

Panasonic Lowers Earnings, Tokyo St

Stocks in Tokyo rose 2% on the hopes that the latest rate in cut in China will help exports from Japan. Toix Index gained 1.5%. Inpex soared 10% after crude oil prices increased 7%. Meidensha Corp led the gainers in Nikkei with a rise of 10.1%. Panasonic Corp lowered its full year earnings.

Bank Of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (Malaysia) To Promote Islamic Finance

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 26 (Bernama) -- Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (Malaysia) Bhd (BTMU) has embarked on an initiative to take a leadership role in promoting Islamic financing to its clientele across the globe.

Unemployed Tokyo Univ graduate charged with threatening professors on blog

A 25-year-old graduate of the faculty of law at Tokyo University, who had been arrested for posting a threatening message on his blog against bureaucrats of the Ministry of Education last November, was on Tuesday charged with posting threatening messages against professors of the university.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.'s The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd. to Open Office in Kazakhstan-Jiji Press

Jiji Press reported that The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd., a banking unit of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., will open a business office in Kazakhstan by March 2009. The office, which will be the first Japanese bank office in the country, will be engaged in information research in Kazakhstan, as well as in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

French bank looks at options in Tokyo

French investment bank Natixis, which has been affected badly by the global credit crunch, has decided to slash jobs at its Tokyo branch.

French bank looks at options in Tokyo

French investment bank Natixis, which has been affected badly by the global credit crunch, has decided to slash jobs at its Tokyo branch.

French bank looks at options in Tokyo

French investment bank Natixis, which has been affected badly by the global credit crunch, has decided to slash jobs at its Tokyo branch.

French bank looks at options in Tokyo

French investment bank Natixis, which has been affected badly by the global credit crunch, has decided to slash jobs at its Tokyo branch.

French bank looks at options in Tokyo

French investment bank Natixis, which has been affected badly by the global credit crunch, has decided to slash jobs at its Tokyo branch.

French bank looks at options in Tokyo

French investment bank Natixis, which has been affected badly by the global credit crunch, has decided to slash jobs at its Tokyo branch.

Firms to be able to register China copyright in Tokyo

An institution jointly established by the Chinese government and Japanese companies in Tokyo will establish a section to accept copyright registration from Japanese companies for China as soon as April, it has been learned.

The space beer, brewed from barley cultivated in the International Space Station in 2006, is shown in Tokyo on Dec. 2, 2008.

A students shows the space beer, brewed from barley cultivated in the International Space Station in 2006 in Tokyo on Dec. 2, 2008. Japan's beer giant Sapporo will produce 100 liters of the 5.5 percent alcoholic brew which are not for sale in the next year. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)

Research and Markets: Examining the Latest Market Trends with This Survey of Digital Photo Frame Products on Sale in Tokyo

DUBLIN, Ireland - (Business Wire) Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/f03180/examining_the_late) has announced the addition of the "Examining the Latest Market Trends: Survey of Digital Photo Frame Products on Sale in Tokyo" report to their offering.

Research and Markets: Examining the Latest Market Trends with This Survey of Digital Photo Frame Products on Sale in Tokyo

DUBLIN, Ireland (Business Wire) -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/f03180/examining_the_late) has announced the addition of the "Examining the Latest Market Trends: Survey of Digital Photo Frame Products on Sale in Tokyo" report to their offering.

Japanese smash dishes for therapy

TOKYO, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A Tokyo business is offering recession-hit customers the chance to ease their frustrations by throwing cups, plates and other fragile objects at concrete slabs.

Hitachi Released Facebook Application of Similar Image Search Engine ‘GazoPa’

TOKYO - Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT)(TOKYO:6501) announced today that it released ‘GazoPa book’ a new Facebook application that enables users to search for images both inside Facebook and on the web similar to their profile photo and photos at their albums. &ls

Hitachi Released Facebook Application of Similar Image Search Engine GazoPa'

TOKYO (Business Wire) -- Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT)(TOKYO:6501) announced today that it released ‘GazoPa book' a new Facebook application that enables users to search for images both inside Facebook and on the web similar to their profile photo and photos at their albums.

US DOJ Closes Investigation of SRAM Sales Involving Mitsubishi Electric Subsidiary

TOKYO - (Business Wire) Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (President and CEO: Setsuhiro Shimomura) (TOKYO:6503) announced today that the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division has notified Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics U.S.A Inc. (MEUS), a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric, that DOJ has closed its grand jury investigation of possible antitrust violations regarding static random access memory (SRAM) sales in the US market. No charges have been brought to Mitsubishi Electric or MEUS regarding this matter. In October 2006, MEUS had received a subpoena from the DOJ.

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