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Apr 20 Cheap car shows poorer nations won't accept role as the First World's 'factory' (Japan Times) Apr 19 JAL to sell stake in JAL Card to Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (Kyodo) Apr 19 Visual Search Engine is Big in Japan (i4u.com) Apr 19 Who's in charge of big companies? (Yomiuri) Apr 19 Steel Partners Off the Sauce in Japan (BusinessWeek) Apr 18 Japan boating industry eyes new waters (Reuters) Apr 18 Merger grounds JAL's crane symbol (Asahi) Apr 18 Govt at last resort in J-Power case (Yomiuri) Apr 18 Udon noodle exports double in decade (Yomiuri) Apr 17 Hino to end output in California plant: official (AFP) Apr 17 Japan Airlines pleads guilty in US price-fixing case (AFP) Apr 16 Japanese cup noodle flavors jump the shark: Yakisoba okonomiyaki flavor introduced (CalorieLab) Apr 16 Insurer looks to online sales to undercut big firms (Japan Times) Apr 16 Lawson, Japan Post plan alliance (Japan Times) Apr 16 Govt panel opposes British hedge fund's J-Power bid (Yomiuri) Apr 16 JVC to substantially scale down domestic TV business (Kyodo) Apr 16 Disney eyes new markets as Japan ages (Reuters) Apr 15 Australian banks pile into samurai bonds (International Herald Tribune) Apr 15 Japan ups CO2 offset buying as nuclear power slows (Reuters) Apr 15 Chrysler, Nissan unveil production alliance (Reuters) Apr 15 Japanese designer brings eco touch to the world of fur (CNN) Apr 15 Japan Inc. is on a stock buyback spree (Japan Times) Apr 15 Yahoo Japan embraces Silverlight for refined search experience (arstechnica.com) Apr 15 Battle of the hybrids: Toyota Prius vrs. Honda Civic Hybrid (motortorque) Apr 14 Australia-Japan cable upgrade complete (itwire.com) Apr 14 Morgan Stanley appoints new Japan capital markets head (Reuters) Apr 14 Mizuho stung by $5.5 bln in subprime pain (Reuters) Apr 14 More Japanese giants favour Singapore (Bangkok Post) Apr 14 Lee to Bring Massive Investment From Japan, U.S. (donga.com) Apr 14 French wine mogul tipples in Japan (AFP) Apr 12 Japan financial firms face 1.2 tril. yen subprime losses (Yomiuri) Apr 12 Japan Offers Builders Tokyo Tax Breaks to Revive Hub (Bloomberg) Apr 11 Japan refiners surprise with Russian fuel oil thirst (Reuters) Apr 11 Mizuho cuts estimate again on subprime (Reuters) Apr 11 Hawaii spending more to market in Japan (Pacific Business News) Apr 11 Japan's Takeda to acquire U.S.-based Millennium (USA Today) Apr 10 Takeda says to buy Millennium Pharma for $8.8 billion (Reuters) Apr 10 FY 2007 used vehicle sales fall 8% in Japan, hitting 21-year low (Kyodo) Apr 10 Toyota to Recall Nearly 630,000 Minivans in Japan Due to Fuel Tank Defect (AP) Apr 10 Seven & I to close 130 Denny's restaurants in Japan (Reuters) Apr 09 Kuwait, Japan ink $6b Vietnam refinery contract (menafn.com) Apr 09 Skyrocketing Materials Prices Pressure Japanese Firms (Wall Street Journal) Apr 09 JAL to add budget flights to China, ROK (Yomiuri) Apr 09 Osaka to host 1st store for merged Isetan Mitsukoshi (Yomiuri) Apr 09 In Japan, a Car Apart from the Pack (BusinessWeek) Apr 08 Commonwealth Bank Sells $1.43 Billion Japanese Bonds (Bloomberg) Apr 08 Online papers challenge Japan's mainstream media (csmonitor.com) Apr 08 Carmakers view G-8 meet as eco-friendly beauty contest (Yomiuri) Apr 08 Helmet business booms with law change (Yomiuri) Apr 07 DoCoMo losing stranglehold on Japan mobile market (Reuters)