"The bottom line is Japan doesn't want to hurt exports, " said Kevin Chau, a senior currency strategist at IDEAglobal.
The Japan-only premium line accounts for 30% of sales overall.
Since October 1 the yen has weakened 20% -- from under 78 yen to more than 93 yen to the U.S. dollar -- which has helped the bottom line of Japan's exporters.
They criticize the U.S. for taking a hard line with Japan, a country that recently celebrated a 50-year security alliance with the U.S., and which hosts the largest American military base in Asia.
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The bottom line is that Japan has a long history of whiskey production, with a focus on higher end single malts, often aged 12 or more years.
All of which is creating a handy new line of business for Japan's environmental-protection industry.
KDDI, a mobile and fixed line communications company in Japan, has developed extensive information about its customers through the data it collects including URLs visited, type of mobile device, purchase history and buying habits, gender and age group.
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The two lightest-weight classes for the men and the women are on the line this weekend, and Japan should medal in each.
Instead, the PGMs could be underpinned by the restarting of auto production in Japan after it was taken mostly off-line following the earthquake and tsunami earlier this year.
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The Japanese paper proposed that its U.S. counterpart change the way it does business so as to bring it more into line with the practices followed in Japan and most of Europe.
But, in practice, since new drink-driving laws came into force in Japan last June, courts are taking a tougher line with passengers as well as drivers.
This hard-line defence has fended off lawsuits in Japan itself.
Japan had pushed product design and the assembly-line genius of Henry Ford to new heights, which let it scale up volume and push down the price of Old Economy products.
Every one of you knows that because we were in floating reserve at Okinawa and only made that decoy landing it puts us No. 1 in line to be the spearhead division for Japan.
With this rapidly growing user number in mind, NHN Japan is introducing a new platform service, 'LINE Channel', which aims to expand the range of services on offer, using LINE as its foundation.
There are 57 Tiffany stores in Japan today, accounting for less of its top-line revenue, about 18% of sales, which is now about even with the sales generated by the 45 stores in the rest of Asia and 27 stores in Europe combined, Lakner says.
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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.
Political forces may be forcing the Bank of Japan to loosen dramatically in order to bring down the yen in line with the other big easy-money regimes.
There's no pricing yet for either of the microphone packs and the live broadcast didn't hit on whether the mic (or karaoke app) would appear outside of Japan -- but the US will still be first in the line for the console, which is now merely two weeks away.
The largest shipping agent in Japan, the company operates over 750 ships and has its own cruise line.
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 old line was that high-quality cars came almost exclusively from Germany and Japan, and you had to pay for the privilege of the "right" nation of origin.
But the EU admitted that it was isolated on this issue, with even Japan - which has a highly protected agricultural sector - unwilling to back the EU line.
Reading from right to left, the green line is almost uniformly upward sloping as we add antipodal countries until reaching Japan, and almost uniformly downward sloping for more equatorial countries.
Jobs surely hasn't forgotten that before the introduction of the iPhone, Sony seemed poised (briefly) to derail Apple's iPod when it slapped the Walkman brand on a line of music-friendly Sony Ericsson handsets that have sold well in Japan.
The huge spike occurs when the line adds the United States, and the high point is reached after it adds Japan.
Q1 results should be in line with estimates, he adds, while cautioning that Q2 could see some modest Japan-related impact, with some demand pushed into the second half.
If the production line were kept open to make stripped-down versions of the stealth jet for Japan, the Air Force might try to buy some more of them for itself in the future.
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The rise in Japan's core consumer price index in April, which excludes food prices, was largely in line with expectations.
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