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Beat Communication, Social Software Gia...
Published:Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:02:26 -0700
The pioneer of social software in Japan which led to the phenomenon of enterprise 2.0 social software boom in Tokyo Japan, expands its headquarters to the fashion town, Omotesando......

Rakuten Reports First Half Earnings of ...
Published:Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:18:55 -0700
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rakuten, Inc. (JASDAQ:4755): The following information was originally prepared and published by the Company in Japanese as it contains timely disclosure ma......

Arysta LifeScience Announces YOKAFUME®...
Published:Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:51:16 -0700
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arysta LifeScience is pleased to announce YOKAFUME®, a broad-spectrum soil fumigant containing iodomethane (methyl iodide), is now available for commercia......

Nexon Invests in Social Game Publisher ...
Published:Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:05:53 -0700
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nexon Co., Ltd., the global publishing leader of microtransaction-based massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) and one of the largest global online ent......

TOCOM Night Session Hit Record Volume o...
Published:Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:37:22 -0700
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At TOCOM, trading volume of the Night Session reached the record with 102,224 contracts on August 5 (session starting at 17:00 of Aug 4 and closing at 4:00......

Searching for a new Sony in the rubble of the great quake

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TOKYO (Reuters) - On a recent trip to Japans devastated northeast coast, venture capitalist Yoshihito Hori chanced upon a group of fishermen outside an evacuation center collecting wood from the debris where homes once stood. They were pulling out the nails and cutting it up to sell as firewood for 500 yen ($6.37) a bundle....