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Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd (MBI) plans to construct a new flagship Li-ion battery plant in Osaka City. With two other existing manufacturing bases in Osaka Prefecture and Wakayama Prefecture, ...

Osaka, Aug 4, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - Sharp Corporation will introduce into the Japanese market six new LED Downlight Lightings, including three that deliver a light intensity equivalent to ...

Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Japan stocks dropped, sending the benchmark Topix index to a more than three-month low, after profit fell at Mitsui & Co. and Olympus Corp., and U.S. ...

A pipe band from Dundee is set to play the biggest stage in the world after being picked to perform at the Olympic Games opening ceremony (writes Debbie Kerr). Mains ...

Centuries after their ancestors first turned rice into wine, the Japanese are falling out of love with their traditional tipple. Once a staple in homes and restaurants, sake is being ...

Cell Genesys Inc. lost .8 million in the second quarter ended June 30. A year ago in the second quarter the South San Francisco company (NASDAQ: CEGE) lost .9 million. ...

Osaka, Aug 4, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - Sharp Corporation has developed a series of new LED Lightings, including the "oblong" type that features a brightness equivalent to the fluorescent ...

BEIJING, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- China's biggest hope for the Olympic athletics gold Liu Xiang is building up his form towards the men's 110 meters hurdles finals on Aug. 21 ...

OSAKA--Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto is considering a plan to purchase the Osaka World Trade Center Building and relocate the prefectural government's main office there, it has been learned. The prefectural ...

The three-day 6th annual Micronesian Police Executives Association conference will kick off today at the World Resort Hotel's Taga Hall in Susupe. The CNMI Department of Public Safety, Commonwealth Ports ...