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Athens mayhem hits Tokyo markets
“Hectic and confused.” Click to watch video That’s how trader Tsutomu Yamada at kabu.com Securities Co. describes the morning session in Tokyo. Traders were still trying to understand what exactly...
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Japan has bigger problem than revolving door PMs
Tokyo, Japan (CNN) – Every international journalist covering Japan has been talking about the country’s revolving door of prime ministers this week. But believe it or not, having a series of prime...
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Living on the wrong side of currency slides
I never cared much about the currency markets before moving out of the U.S. Euro, yen, dollar… those words zoomed by on the bottom of the business news tickers, the numbers behind them always...
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How the man from Japan Inc. became a school principal
Tokyo, Japan – Akihisa Shirota has piles of manga in his office. He likes to take math drills with the students. And he dismisses the “ivory tower” types as living too “in the box.” Not your average...
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Japan business: No rare earths coming from China
Click to watch video (CNN) – China can publicly deny that it has halted exports of rare earth. But Shigeo Nakamura knows what he is seeing: no rare earth has come into his company from his Chinese...
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Black American is Japan’s top commercial star
Click to watch video Tokyo, Japan (CNN) – It’s a tried and true method of gaining attention in the business world: try something visibly different. For Japanese mobile phone company Softbank,...
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Japan's economy falls into recession
Click to watch video Tokyo, Japan (CNN) - Japan's economy, sputtering since the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, has fallen into recession, according to government figures released...
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Japan's political circus goes on amid quake misery
I have a harsh symbol of Japan’s political cynicism on my desk. It’s a coffee cup, with the caricatures of the prime ministers on it. What makes it so cynical is that there’s a space to add four more...
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Raw meat sushi brings out Japan's 'carnivore girls'
Click to watch video Tokyo (CNN) – A restaurant in Tokyo is crowded with customers, but on the menu isn’t raw fish, but raw meat – chicken, pork, beef and even horse meat. About half the customers at...
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Toyota's woes driven by strong yen
Tokyo (CNN) - Imagine your paycheck gets slashed by 99.4%. That would make me, and pretty much everyone I know, weep with sadness. Well, that’s essentially what Toyota says has happened to its net...
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