Its mission is to broadcast the message "Hi this is Niwaka Japan" in Morse code, using bursts of intense light to draw dots and dashes across the heavens.

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The hi-tech garments were designed in Japan to be odour-free.

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Dutch electronics giant Philips is to sell off its home entertainment business, including hi-fis and DVD players, to Japan's Funai Electric.

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At the 2011 IBC conference in Amsterdam a paper from NHK in Japan (a TV broadcaster) on Super Hi-Vision video was recognized as the best technical paper at the show.

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More importantly, they say countries such as Japan, South Korea and China are building very big, specialised and hi-tech ships, and they are not interested in constructing smaller vessels.

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