Most of the people who work at NowPublic were born after 1970. This means that for almost everyone in the office this year's holiday shopping season was the worst in their lifetime. "The...
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By, Uwe Paschen. Toyotas First Solar Powered car Toyota is in spite of a Global Recession and maybe soon to be Depression, as well as its first annual loss in 70 year still investing into environmental...
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Japan has it’s own new conspiracy theory. Hisayasu Nagata, a former MP and a former Japanese lawmaker. He graduated from Keio Shiki Boys' Senior High School in 1988, Tokyo University in 1993, and then entered...
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Defying all the negative perceptions Stock Markets in Asia rose on Monday at the beginning of the new year. Japan's Nikkei, Indian Sensex took cue from Wall Street. Indian stock market gained momentum on Monday...
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Japan, world's second biggest economy, is slowly plunging into recession. After exports declined historic low now Industrial output in Japan dropped just over 8% in November compared with the previous month,...
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By, Uwe Paschen. Shibuya, the heart of the new Japan. Shibuya is in Tokyo, a district where over the past decade young and different minded Japanese have established them self, for one it is a cheaper area to...
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The prevailing economic recession has engulfed Japan, the world's second-largest economy severely and country has slipped into its first recession in seven years by shrinking in the third quarter. The deepening...
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The Campaign Against Surveillance Society, led by Professor Yasuhiko Tajima, is trying to stop the Google Street View project from continuing in Japan. Tajima says that the project, which captures cities at...
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With global economic downturn deepening and no revival sight in near future , Japan on Friday forecast zero growth for the year to March 2010, with the government battling to stave off a prolonged contraction in the world's second-largest economy. It was Japan's first zero...
How do you go from being a small town Pennsylvania pharmacy clerk to reaching the No. 1 spot on the Japanese YouTube rankings. Mark Schilling tells us how this happened to a diminutive video blogger in Introducing Magibon, Japan's YouTube darling (Japan Times, December 18)....
Suzuki, a Japanese car manufacturing company announced on Monday that they will be pulling out of the 2009 FIA World Rally Championship due to the global financial crisis. This really comes as...
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In two of Japan's busiest train stations, experiments have started this week to use the footsteps of all the commuters to create the energy to run the ticket turnstiles. A special floor has been installed in front...
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"The secret world of dreams has been unlocked with the invention of technology capable of illustrating images taken directly from human brains during sleep." As if advances in home computing alone have not been boggling enough for old guys like me some crazy, brilliant SOB's...
And Earthtimes.org says (in Obama and Gore discuss climate, energy - Summary) Washington - US president-elect Barack Obama said delaying action on climate change was no longer an option, after a meeting Tuesday with...