TOKYO -- Mitsubishi Aircraft is winning orders for its SpaceJet plane outside its home market, including in Europe, as it fights to become Japan's first global commercial aircraft maker despite numer…

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp (6502.T) does not feel threatened by Hoya Corp’s (7741.T) counter offer for Toshiba chip equipment unit NuFlare, saying that even if its own bid fails it does not expec…

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The defendant also denied asking for intervention in connection with investigators' decision not to build a case over the 2015 rape case, saying, "I didn't ask any politician, police officer or burea…

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Back in September, IBM Q announced a host of new tools catered to making quantum computing more accessible.
Amongst the new additions were a bunch of 5-qubit quantum computers, which extended the IBM…

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Tokyo — Toyota Motor Corp. has unveiled an upgraded version of its human-shaped T-HR3 robot.
Such a robot could one day be used to perform surgery in a distant place where a doctor cannot travel.
Toy…

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[Image: Brian Ashcraft | Kotaku]Every year across Japan, people line up at Kentucky Fried Chicken joints to place their orders for Christmas dinner.
[Image: Brian Ashcraft | Kotaku]This Twitter user …

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In one of our favorite examples of life imitating art, Japan is now dotted with actual Pokémon Canters, just like the worlds of the Pokémon video games and anime.
But it wasn’t until this week that t…

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EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has released the first trailer for their forthcoming family dramedy The Truth starring French icon Catherine Deneuve and Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche.
The film marks Hi…

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It’s true that we shouldn’t put practicalities ahead of principles, but then again, isn’t that what partisan politics of now stands for?
It’s all practicalities and the only principles held are more …

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“I don’t love my crush anymore, but I want someone else to give them their love,” says message on Kyoto container.
When you spot a trash can in Japan, it’ll usually also have a sign saying what kind …

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