Kirin, known largely for its beers, debuted its own sugar-free, dextrin-containing cola in Japan earlier this year.
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Sprint CEO Dan Hesse will keep his job, and appeared with Son to announce the deal in Japan earlier today.
Before I begin, I want to say a few words about the terrible earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan earlier today.
England had secured their place among the top eight teams in the world with a victory over Japan earlier in the week.
The first Forum using this format was held in Christchurch a year ago and such was the success of that, a second forum was held in Sendai Japan earlier in the year.
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Paul Flynn said Dr Mike Weightman's report into the disaster in Japan earlier this year was limited because his remit did not allow him to consider the high costs of building and insuring nuclear power plants.
Microsoft took when it launched a Twitter campaign shortly after the devastating natural disasters in Japan earlier this year by linking the aid it was donating to Japan to the number of retweets the Bing brand would get.
Now that the Greek parliament has passed the very unpopular austerity measures the world market place is looking at other matters, such as some recent better economic data coming out of Japan earlier this week and some slightly better U.S. economic data Thursday.
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We weren't able to confirm US availability or pricing, which will likely come in below the European tag, but reps did quote a November 1st ship date, which seems to be in line with the November 10th date we heard for Japan earlier this week.
It has been replaced in the Pacific by the USS Warrior, which arrived at the U.S. naval base in Sasebo, Japan, earlier this month.
Japan announced earlier in the week that they would buy more bonds from the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), in which Tokyo had previously participated in purchasing approximately 20% of those issues.
"This revision will reduce the spread of copyright infringement activities on the internet, " said the body's chairman Naoki Kitagawa, who is also chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment Japan, earlier this year.
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For many voters, this all smacks of Japan's earlier attempt to escape the LDP's shadow, in 1993.
Take a look at the myriad similarities between the U.S. at the close of the 1990s and Japan a decade earlier.
Earlier, Japan had interpreted the comments as not showing concern about attempts to weaken the yen.
Earlier, Japan's Nikkei 225 tumbled 1.1 percent to close at 12, 003.43 as the yen's recent weakness reversed course.
This game drew only 27, 527, compared to 33, 363 a night earlier as Japan went down to the surprising Puerto Ricans.
The Bank of Japan engaged in quantitative easing earlier this decade, buying government debt and raising commercial bank reserves.
Mankind can prepare for but not prevent the kind of natural calamity that struck Japan in March and Christchurch earlier this year.
As a result of an in-flight, Boeing 787 battery incident earlier today in Japan, the FAA will issue an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) to address a potential battery fire risk in the 787 and require operators to temporarily cease operations.
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Separate figures showed that Japan's core consumer price index fell 0.4% in April from a year earlier, indicating that the Bank of Japan is still far from its goal of achieving steady 2% price growth to overcome years of deflationary pressures.
Earlier in Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 index surged 1.3 percent to 12, 635.69, its highest close since September 2008.
Japan lifted a tsunami warning issued earlier in the day on Thursday, the Times of India reported on its website.
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Earlier in Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 0.8 percent to close at 13, 694.04 while South Korea's Kospi lost 0.4 percent at 1, 956.39.
Earlier in the 1990s Japan was able to use fiscal packages to reflate its economy because bond markets were pretty strong and bond yields kept falling.
Earlier in Asia, Japan's Nikkei surged 2.3 percent to 11, 113.95, its highest closing since late April 2010, as the yen continued to weaken against the U.S. dollar.
However, earlier this week, Japan's transport ministry said that safety inspectors had found no faults with the battery, leading to concerns that the planes might remain grounded for a while.
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But earlier this week, Japan's transport ministry said that safety inspectors had found no faults with the battery, leading to concerns that the planes might remain grounded for a while as further investigations may be needed to sort out the issue.
Those are the kind of steps we can take that will help our economy grow, will help it create jobs and will insulate us from potential future shocks whether they come from Europe, or as they did earlier this year from Japan, or the Middle East.
Earlier in the day, Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index recovered from 26-year lows, surging 459.02 points, or 6.4 percent, to 7, 621.92.
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