Over in Japan, export-focused companies rallied on the dollar's continued strength against the yen.
Over in Japan, the yen continued to weaken against the US dollar.
New leaders took over in Japan, the Philippines and South Korea, while incumbents, like Hong Kong's Tung Chee-hwa, found their support more waning than waxing.
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Markets responded by rallying from their drops earlier in the day, as fears over nuclear facilities in Japan caused a broad pull-back in equities and a run into government bonds.
The crews arrived four days after the 24-foot tsunami had swept the plant, and in the ensuing 10 weeks they logged 507 flight hours crisscrossing the skies over Japan in a Beechcraft C-12 twin engine turboprop out of nearby Yokota Air Base.
Stocks in the chip-making sector recovered slightly from the panic earlier in the week over their closed plants in Japan.
England had secured their place among the top eight teams in the world with a victory over Japan earlier in the week.
By test-firing a new rocket over Japan in 1998, he caught outside attention again.
Companies' effective tax rate especially for smaller ones, with little scope for sheltering their profits hovers at just over 50% in Japan, compared with 41% in America.
Over the past few months New York-based American Home and Zurich Insurance have been permitted for the first time to sell auto policies over the phone in Japan.
Since taking over the helm, Kim at times has seemed to justify the worst Western images of him--such as when he "test fired" a missile over Japan in 1998.
In the land of lifetime employment (at least for many workers in big companies), Mr Ghosn shocked Japan by announcing the closure of five factories employing over 16, 000 people in Japan alone, cutting capacity by 30% to bring it more into line with sales and boosting utilisation rates to around the 75-80% rates at which car makers begin to make money.
The zenith of the sento was in the 1960s, when there were over 23, 000 scattered over Japan and 2, 700 in Tokyo.
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The last time Japan and China faced off over the islands in 2010, Japan blinked first.
The country's most recent long-range missile launch happened in April 2009 from a base near Musudan-ri, on North Korea's northwest coast, and flew eastward over Japan before crashing in the Pacific Ocean about 1, 270 kilometers east of Japan.
At his peak in 1998, he chalked up a Japanese season-record 45 saves, including an unprecedented 22 in a row, and led Yokohama to victory over the Seibu Lions in the Japan Series.
The high point of his reign was the 5-1 win over Germany in the qualifiers for Japan and South Korea only months after he had taken over.
Conversations between top officials have included remarks underlining a gaping divide in views over Japan's wartime activities.
Easy wins over Jamaica and Japan in the group phase meant a meeting with Romania, winners of England's group, in the first knockout round.
The effect on world-wide nuclear growth "will depend upon how things play out in Japan over the next few days or weeks, " Mr. Carter said.
The second discordant image of the week was of a ballistic missile fired by North Korea over Japan and in the general direction of the United States.
The bond also gives investors a chance to express their opinion on the expected rate of inflation in Japan over the next ten years, says John Richards of Barclays Capital in Tokyo.
Shigeta expects a massive financial harvest over the next two years, as the number of mobile subscribers in Japan rises to over 70 million and most current users switch, as close to 3 million already have, to new phones with Internet access or e-mail capabilities.
This outcome was due largely to the determination of the Japanese Foreign Ministry to preserve the integrity of Japan's traditional policy of demanding the unconditional return of the territories and widespread skepticism in Japan over the portentous, recentralizing direction of the Soviet government under Gorbachev's leadership.
If China and America had come to blows in the Taiwan Strait over China's intimidation of Taiwan last year, Japan would have been in a dither over whether it could even supply the American warships involved.
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