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Tired of flipping through hundreds of cable channels to find something to watch? Google may be able to help you.

Reliance MediaWorks has signed a deal with Imagica Corp, one of Japan's largest lab and post-production companies, to restore Japanese classics.

Michael Lynton, chairman and chief executive of Sony Pictures, has called for healthier alternatives to snacks such as butter dipped popcorn in cinemas.

San Francisco - Tired of flipping through hundreds of cable channels to find something to watch? Google may be able to help you. The web search giant has teamed up with Intel, Sony and Logitech to dev...

Tokyo - Japanese stocks edged down in Thursday morning trading as investors sold shares to lock in profits after the previous day's eight-week closing high. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average lost...

March 18 (Bloomberg) -- International Business Machines Corp.’s Japan unit said it will appeal an assessment by the country’s tax authority, after the Asahi newspaper reported the company ...

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503) announced today the launch of its new "PV Series" intelligent power modules (IPM), mainly for use in residential photovoltaic (PV) inverters. The six model...

record-breaking deal in which Michael Jackson's estate will get up to $250 million in the next seven years probably isn't a huge gamble for the company that will pay the money out, Sony Music Entertai...

WASHINGTON — The United States and Japan have started formal discussions on a wide range of security issues, including the U.S. nuclear umbrella and missile defense, a senior U.S. official told...

TOKYO, March 18 (AP) - (Kyodo)—(EDS: TO BE LED) The IBM Japan Ltd. group is suspected of failing to declare more than 400 billion yen in income, sources familiar with the case said Thursday....

TOKYO, March 18 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Tokyo stocks opened lower Thursday with investors taking quick profits after the key Nikkei index rose sharply the previous day to finish at an eight-week high. ...

KOBE--Things are looking up for visitors to the renovated Kobe Port Tower. Starting Friday, the tower's fifth-level observatory will offer a view of both the city below and the stars above. ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that individuals posting comments on the Internet must be held to the same standards for criminal libel as writers in other forms of media. The unprecedented ruling me...

France's Renault SA and German automaker Daimler AG have begun negotiations on a possible partnership, sources said. Nissan Motor Co. could become involved because Renault already has capital tie...

The Bank of Japan decided Wednesday to expand the scale of a fixed-rate fund supply operation it started in December to 20 trillion yen ($222 billion), or double the current amount. The central b...

Facing a potential crisis from the "2010 problem" of expiring drug patents and a sluggish domestic market, second-tier pharmaceutical companies are bolstering their overseas sales strategies. Thi...

The biggest initial public offering in Japan in more than a decade is expected to bring 1 million or more new investors to the stock market and pump 1 trillion yen ($11.1 billion) in cash payouts into...

Is this the beginning of the end, or just a phase that will eventually lead to a rebirth? Whatever the case, now is the moment of truth for the Liberal Democratic Party. Having fallen from power ...

The availability of rare metals used in everyday products will inevitably run short, causing a heated scramble for supplies. This underscores the need for ways to retrieve and recycle these materials,...

Newcomer Edgar Gonzalez smacked a two-run homer and doubled in another run to back a solid outing by starter Shugo Fujii as the Yomiuri Giants topped the Hiroshima Carp 6-1 on Wednesday afternoon in p...

(RTTNews) - An index measuring business conditions among corporations with capital of 1 billion yen or more was down 2.4 percent in the first quarter of 2010 compared to the previous three months, th...

House Foreign Affairs subcommittee Asia, contrasted Japan's trains with the United States' own troubled network. "The fact of the matter is Japan is about 100 years in advance as far a...

demonstrating a scanner that uses revolutionary chip technology to scan a 200 page book in just a minute.Masatoshi Ishikawa, a professor at the University of Tokyo, and lab members Takashi Nakashim...

TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- Japanese shares traded mixed Thursday morning in Tokyo, finding some support from strength in oil shares but mostly pressured by losses in real-estate stocks. The Nikkei 225 Ave...

(RTTNews) - An index monitoring business conditions among corporations with capital of 1 billion yen or more declined 2.4 percent in the first quarter of 2010, the Ministry of Finance said on Thursda...