Japan
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Editors' picks
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Healthy diet and lifestyle credited with high life expectancy as number of people over 100 passes 36,000
Latest videos
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Video: Men's bras are snapped up in Japan (1min 26sec)
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Video: Whaling on trial (1min 07sec)
Most recent
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6 Jan 2009: World's second-biggest carmaker attempts to stave off redundancies and shift stock of unsold cars amid catastrophic decline in sales
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5 Jan 2009: Car sales have plunged in Japan, France and the US and UK figures out this week are expected to make grim reading
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2 Jan 2009:
Sharpest decline ever poses economic threat to growth prospects amid global recession
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26 Dec 2008: Latest figures deepen recession gloom in east Asia
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23 Dec 2008:
Japanese carmaker issues second warning as profits pummelled by global downturn and soaring yen
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22 Dec 2008: Surging yen and dramatic fall in exports batter profits at Japan's biggest carmaker
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20 Dec 2008:
News from the world's second, third and fourth biggest economies reinforces fears about 2009 economic forecast
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19 Dec 2008: Japan's biggest consumer electronics deal to go ahead after weeks of ill-tempered talks in which major shareholder Goldman held out for a higher price. By Justin McCurry
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17 Dec 2008:
Japanese property developer found guilty of kidnapping, mutilating and abandoning British nightclub hostess
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15 Dec 2008: Sharp rise in the yen and the global financial crisis have deepened gloom among Japanese car and electronics makers
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13 Dec 2008:
Fusako Shigenobu is serving 20 years for orchestrating the 1974 siege of the French embassy in The Hague
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