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Experts from the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are heading to Japan to launch an emergency preparedness and response centre in Fukushima, the coastal city devastated two years ago when a massive earthquake and tsunami set off meltdowns at a nuclear power plant.

Japan's nuclear watchdog said Wednesday that one reactor was sitting directly above an active tectonic fault, effectively ruling out a restart forever.

For years, the iPhone has carried a small etching on the back that says ‘Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China.’ It’s fueled the stereotype that China is the world’s factory, but hasn’t had a flexible enough education system to produce R&D talent that can also design world-class products for a global audience. But that’s a stereotype that...

Rafsanjani, Mashaei banned from presidential bid in Iran Top news: A governing body of the Iranian government issued its list of approved presidential candidates and excluded two leading contenders -- Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei -- a decision that all but guarantees that the next Iranian president will be drawn from a conservatives...

The Wolverine will slash through theaters this summer and in this new trailer for the Marvel superhe[...]

Japan's government seeks to boost economy by restarting nuclear facilities as power plants scamble to improve safety measures

SparkLabs, the startup accelerator that wants to inject South Korea's startup ecosystem with Silicon Valley expertise, announced its second intake today. Its latest class is an international lineup of companies that represent a variety of sectors and are at widely different stages of funding, from bootstrapped financing to those that have closed a Series A round.

Mashable is proud to join technology's brightest entrepreneurs in the March For Innovation, a virtual march on Washington that calls for smart, comprehensive immigration reform to attract and keep the best and brightest to fuel innovation and American jobs. I grew up in Eugene, Oregon. I was fortunate enough to attend Eugene International High School, an innovative...

Japan has approved an international treaty on child abductions following decades of international pressure.    

Japan has reported its worst April trade deficit as a weak yen increased import costs and helped extend the run of monthly shortfalls to the longest in more than three decades.    

Central bank upgrades its assessment of the economy for a fifth straight month, saying it ‘has started picking up’

Rising bond yields left the central bank with less room to maneuver as it injects money into the economy, analysts said.    

Europe is a lot like Japan: Aging, stagnant, indebted. Columnist Matthew Lynn says there are five lessons Europe can learn from the early successes of Abenomics.

Ahead of PM Manmohan Singh's visit next week, Japan has announced that it remains committed to civil nuclear cooperation with India.

TOKYO (AP) -- A steady decline in the yen is proving a godsend for exporters such as Toyota and has won solid support from Japan's main trading partners, who are betting the impact on their own currencies will be offset by gains from a recovery in the world's third-largest economy. It's not such good news for entrepreneurs like Thamonwan Thawornthaweewong, whose Angry...

(Corrects day of investor meetings in paragraph 4 to Thursday from Friday)

Ahead of PM Manmohan Singh's visit next week, Japan has announced that it remains committed to civil nuclear cooperation with India despite its concerns over nuclear safety.    

Ahead of PM Manmohan Singh's visit next week, Japan has announced that it remains committed to civil nuclear cooperation with India despite its concerns over nuclear safety.    

Japan's central bank pledged Wednesday to maintain its ambitious quantitative easing program, saying that economic conditions in the country are improving.

Die lockere Geldpolitik der japanischen Notenbank zeigt Wirkung: Dank des schwachen Yens hat Japan nun den zweiten Monat in Folge mehr exportiert. Analysten waren jedoch von den Daten enttäuscht.

TOKYO, May 22 (Reuters) - Few foreign activist investors have made much headway in forcing change in Japan, where a conservative corporate culture favours long-standing ties with banks, business...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan on Wednesday decided to keep monetary policy on hold, but one board member tried unsuccessfully to loosen the central bank's commitment to achieving its 2 percent inflation target within two years.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has started looking into resuming inter-governmental talks with North Korea after a surprise visit to Pyongyang by an aide to Japan's prime minister, the Asahi Shimbun and other newspapers said on Wednesday.

Mark Carney, the incoming Bank of England Governor, has warned that Europe could face a decade of stagnation unless it takes the kind of bold measures seen in Japan.    

Europe needs to make big reforms and should ‘draw lessons’ from Japan, he said

TOKYO (Reuters) - Few foreign activist investors have made much headway in forcing change in Japan, where a conservative corporate culture favors long-standing ties with banks, business partners and workers rather than shareholders seeking value.

Hundreds of people living just outside Japan's Fukushima prefecture say they have been denied adequate compensation after the country's 2011 nuclear disaster despite suffering elevated radiation levels.    

Nine uncapped players chosen for two test trip under interim head coach McBryde    

Ein US-Hedgefonds mischt sich ins Geschäft von Sony ein. Bisher hatten ausländische Investoren in Japan wenig Chancen. Doch das könnte sich jetzt ändern.

Kudos to Apple's finance lawyers, who are the Cirque Du Soleil of legal contortionism. On the eve of live testimony from CEO Tim Cook, CFO Peter Oppenheimer and Phillip Bullock, head of Apple's tax operations, a scathing congressional investigation of Apple's tax dodging strategy reveals how the computer giant avoided $13.8 billion in taxes through a clever labyrinth of...

Last week we reported that MessageMe, one of the latest messaging apps to hit the smartphone market, had picked up a $10 million Series A round of funding, and today, the company is officially confirming the news, along with some more details on how it's been doing in the 2.5 months since it launched. It now has 5 million users across both iOS and Android -- a five-fold...

May 20 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Monday said the Obama administration was suspending investments in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, a government employee pension fund, to help the nation keep paying its bills now that a temporary suspension of the cap on the government's debt has expired. In a letter to leaders...

The Cluny Museum’s tapestries of “The Lady and the Unicorn” travel to Tokyo and Osaka, and alabaster mourners from Dijon make a stopover in Paris.    

CANNES A blood-soaked vengeance tale from Japan drew the biggest boos in the race for the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize Monday, with critics savaging a “risible” parade of cliches. Controversial Japanese director Takashi Miike unveiled “Shield of Straw” (Wara No Tate) about a nationwide bounty hunt for a child rapist who murders the seven-year-old granddaughter...

Seoul : North Korea fired a sixth short-range missile into the Sea of Japan on Monday, defying warnings from UN chief Ban Ki-moon and South Korea after a flurry of similar tests at the weekend. The latest firing was confirmed by the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), who said it was unclear if the North was testing guided missiles or rockets from multiple launchers....

Die Börsianer in Japan halten sich bedeckt, bevor es sowohl von der US-Notenbank Fed als auch von der Bank von Japan Neues geben dürfte. Verlierer des frühen Handels sind die Aktien von Softbank.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's exports are expected to have risen in April from a year earlier for a second straight month led by U.S.-bound shipments of cars and Asian demand for electronics parts in a sign a weak yen and global recovery are helping the export-reliant economy.

Index rises to levels last seen before dotcom bubble burst, fuelled by a relatively calm eurozone, QE, low interest rates and rising confidence in JapanShares in London have reached levels last seen at the height of the dotcom boom nearly 13 years ago.At a close of 6,755 points, the FTSE 100 blue chip index matched levels from September 2000, just before the market's fascination...

The blue chip index rose to its highest level in almost six years as shares on Wall Street reversed early losses led by American Express and Yahoo which announced a deal to buy social networking site Tumblr for $1.1billion overnight.

The Japanese government upgraded its assessment of the economy on Monday, in a further sign that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's aggressive polices are beginning to reignite growth.    

CANNES, France (AP) -- Director Takashi Miike says shooting an action movie in Japan is a lot harder than it looks....

As Europe reminds us, it prevents recession-battered economies from growing. The alternative is to prime the economic pump by having governments engage in fiscal and monetary stimulus.

The FTSE 100 was up 15.61 points, or 0.2 per cent, at 6,738.67 shortly after the open, not far from an intraday peak of 6,754.10 reached in 2007, a resistance level for the index and a near-term target for a number of technical analysts.

(Phys.org) —Pink is the color of princess fairy-tale gowns, magic slippers, upscale cupcake icing, and everything else favorable to girls who just want to be girls. "Ladyphones" appear to be concepts for female-targeted phone designs, and now NEC is joining manufacturers fashioning pink smartphones as a female fashion accessory. But this would not be a females-first....

TOKYO - Japan’s earnings season has drawn to a close with the sharply weaker yen helping inflate profits at some of the nation’s top exporters, but, warn some commentators, the drop is not all good news. Sony booked its first annual profit in five years, Toyota more than tripled its earnings in the fiscal year to March and the head of rival automaker Nissan hailed...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan risks missing, yet again, an opportunity to use foreign investment to help fuel sustained economic growth that has eluded it for the last two decades.

Peter Maurer, the president of the ICRC, today concludes a two-day official visit to Japan, during which he met Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Minister of Defence Itsunori Onodera and Parliamentary Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Masaji Matsuyama. Mr Maurer also met their majesties the emperor and empress at the Imperial Palace.

hypnosec writes with report of the possible theft of up to 22 million user IDs revealed by Yahoo! Japan. That scale is massive, but, he writes, "According to Yahoo, the information that was stolen didn't have passwords or any other information that would allow unauthorized users to carry out user identity verification." A story at the Japan Times adds a bit more detail....

Japan's prime minister vowed on Sunday to seek talks with Pyongyang in a bid to settle the nagging issue of North Korea's kidnapping of Japanese, without risking its alliance with Washington and Seoul.    

Tim Peake's selection seen as major boost for UK industry and an inspiration to young peopleBritain's first official astronaut, Major Tim Peake, has been selected to fly on a five-month mission on the International Space Station in 2015, it is believed. The go-ahead for the flight will be seen as a major boost for the UK's space industry. Peake graduated as a European...

SEOUL - North Korea on Saturday launched three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, apparently as part of a military drill, South Korea's defence ministry said. US and South Korean forces had been on heightened alert for a medium-range ballistic missile test in recent weeks amid tensions triggered by North Korea's nuclear test in February. "North Korea launched...

SAINTS boss tells retiring ex-England star he may trip him up when he sees him as revenge for 2002 Japan tumble

It’s still practically a newborn but Indian mobile messaging app Hike is already channelling almost a billion messages a month between its 5m registered users. Those numbers sound insignificant when you stack them up against the big beasts of the messaging space – WhatsApp claims 200m+ monthly active users, and 600bn messages – but Hike’s growth is impressive when...

Yahoo Japan said it suspected that up to 22 million of its user IDs may have been "leaked".

A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the northern coast of Japan's main Honshu island on Saturday, seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage. The quake hit at 2:48 pm (0548 GMT) in the Pacific some 50 kilometres (31 miles) from Namie town near the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Daiichi plant, the United States...