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Shizuoka Bank enters into the rankings as the 50th safest bank in the world, and safest in Japan, according to Global Finance. The Japanese Bankers association lists Shizuoka's total assets ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asian stocks rose on Wednesday as investors cheered a manufacturing rebound in China and stronger-than-expected growth in Australia, while the yen inched up toward a 15-year peak ...

(Adds Samsung comment in fifth paragraph.) Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Panasonic Corp., the world’s largest maker of plasma televisions, said it may fail to meet its sales target for 3-D ...

Panasonic Corporation announced today that the company will move a part of plasma display panel production facilities at its third domestic PDP plant in Amagasaki City, near Osaka, to Panasonic ...

ESPN International Track & Field is a video game that was developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka Co., Ltd. and published by Konami of America, Inc. The game was launched ...

Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average rose 27.13, or 0.3 percent, to 8,872.52 at the 11 a.m. trading break in Tokyo. The following are among the most active shares in the ...

The Japanese city of Osaka is reviewing the accuracy of its records after finding 5,125 residents listed as aged 120 or older, including one man who would be 152 if ...

Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe’s largest bank, said it plans to add retail branches in Osaka and Nagoya to tap wealthy clients in the two Japanese cities ...

Ted Henderson, one of the new dancers at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, during a class. The face of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre is still changing as the company prepares for its ...

Hospira Japan Co., Ltd. announced it has received an approval for the long-term (greater than 24 hour) use of the sedative "Precedex IV™200ug" (generic name: dexmedetomidine hydrochloride). This approval ...