Japan launches 5th spy satellite
AP - 20 minutes agoJapan launched its fifth spy satellite into orbit Saturday in a bid to boost its ability to independently gather intelligence, the government said.
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Japan launched its fifth spy satellite into orbit Saturday in a bid to boost its ability to independently gather intelligence, the government said.
TOKYO | Deflation in Japan accelerated in October, with core consumer prices down 2.2 percent from a year earlier, the government said today. The jobless rate, however, improved to 5.1 percent. The key consumer price index, which excludes volatile fresh-food prices, has fallen for eight straight months, posing a growing threat to Japan ’s fragile economic recovery.
Japanese consumer price index excluding volatile food and energy prices slid in the year to October at the fastest rate since 2001 with increasing signs that weak demand is weighing on prices, while a tumbling dollar adds to price pressures.
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Japan's teenage sensation Kei Nishikori said Friday he may miss the Australian Open in January, the first Grand Slam event of the season, although he has resumed training after an elbow injury.
Stocks dropped Friday as a wave of fear swept through world markets over concerns that financial trouble in the Middle Eastern city-state of Dubai will upend a global economic recovery.
Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned to Earth with a smooth touchdown Friday to end an "amazing" flight that resupplied the International Space Station.
The dollar fell briefly to its lowest level in 14 years against the Japanese yen Friday but rallied against the euro and other currencies as Dubai's debt problems roiled currency markets.
TOKYO -(Dow Jones)- Japan's Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Friday that the government will closely monitor the impact of the recent strong yen on the economy, and is ready to take steps as needed to avoid a double-dip recession.
TOKYO -(Dow Jones)- Japan's finance minister stepped up his rhetoric against excessive yen rises on Friday, calling the currency's recent climb "one-sided" and threatening to intervene in foreign-exchange markets if the rapid ascent continues.
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Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii said he may contact U.S. and European officials to act on currencies, amid concern the yen’s surge to a 14-year high will hamper the economic recovery.
TOKYO — A Japanese government working group recommended reviewing salaries of local workers on U.S. military bases as a potential cost-cutting measure, though it backed away from offering a specific proposal.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese stocks fell, dragging the Nikkei 225 Stock Average to its biggest drop in eight months, on concern Dubai will fail to pay construction companies and the dollar’s weakening to a 14-year low will hurt exporters earnings.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano said rapid exchange rate moves aren’t desirable after the yen rose to a 14-year high against the U.S. dollar, falling short of calling for intervention to halt the gains.
Japanese stocks tumbled Friday, as a rapidly surging yen pummeled exporters and Dubai's massive debt problems triggered selling of financial issues.