: Sharp Co. expects its group net profit to fall 7.6 percent in the six months to Sept. 30 due to costs of opening new television plants and higher raw material expenses, the Japanese manufacturer said Monday. Osaka-based Sharp, known for its Aquos brand of flat-panel liquid crystal display TVs, said in a statement it expects group net profit of 43 billion yen (US$337.19 million; €236 million) for the April-September period, down from 46.5 billion yen a year ago. Still, the company left its profit outlook for the full fiscal year unchanged at 1.64 trillion yen (US$25.49 billion;...
Liberty Global to sell stake to Japan's KDDI
Seattle Times
Seattle Times
TOKYO - Japan's second-largest telecommunications company, KDDI Corp., said Monday it is acquiring Liberty Global Inc.'s stake in Japan's largest cable TV operator for $4 billion in cash. Liberty Global is selling its...
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Daily Yomiuri
Daily Yomiuri
"Jumping the shark" is an American idiom describing the point at which a television series, a career or just about anything that has developed popularity or momentum blows its own credibility and heralds its own demise....
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PR Newswire
PR Newswire
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Breitbart
Breitbart
TOKYO, Jan. 29 (AP) - (Kyodo)(EDS: ADDING INFO) Japan's key consumer price index fell a record 1.3 percent on average in 2009 from a year earlier, for the first drop in four years, the government said Friday,...
Broadcom Announces Digital Terrestrial Converter Box Solutions for Japan's Digital TV Transition
PR Newswire
PR Newswire
Video: Annual bean-throwing festival in Japan
Boing Boing
Boing Boing
In Japan, February 3rd is Setsubun no hi. Technically the day symbolizes the first day of spring, but this year, with snow from Monday night still lingering on rooftops, it hardly felt like it. Most of us who grew...

