Japan online networking king Mixi to take on China
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Japan's most popular online networking  site, Mixi Inc, said on Wednesday it plans to establish a  subsidiary in Shanghai to tap China's fast-growing Internet  market.
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Japan wants to hold a leaders' meeting   with China in October, Foreign Minister Taro Aso said on   Wednesday, adding that a visit to Beijing by new Prime Minister   Shinzo Abe was one option.
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Miyazaki - Tiger Woods will be looking for his first win in Japan when he tees off on Thursday in the Dunlop Phoenix golf tournament.
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KDDI Corp. , Japan's second-biggest phone company, said on Monday it plans to offer fibre-optic broadband services via cables owned by East Japan Railway Co.  to challenge dominant operator Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. .
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Japan's new PM Shinzo Abe will visit China next week, the first summit between the nations' leaders in five years.
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BEIJING, Dec. 27 -- With the launch of the first backbone network of the next-generation Internet in China, the country is expected to dramatically narrow its gap with the world&#39;s leaders, officials and experts said.
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Japan's ruling party was poised on Sunday to pick Yasuo Fukuda, who seeks warmer ties with Asian neighbors, to succeed Shinzo Abe as prime minister in an effort to revive party fortunes and fill a political vacuum.
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With the launch of the first backbone network of the next-generation Internet in China, the country is expected to dramatically narrow its gap with the world&#39;s leaders, officials and experts said.
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Japan's new prime minister, Shinzo Abe,   pledged on Tuesday to boost his country's role in global   affairs while trying to improve relations with China, frayed by   predecessor Junichiro Koizumi's visits to a Tokyo war shrine.
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InfoWorld - The CEO of Japan&#39;s leading social networking site, Mixi Inc., said Wednesday he hopes the country&#39;s law will be changed to allow users more freedom in sharing and viewing copyrighted content on the Internet.
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Japan has said it will hold its first joint history study with China next week and called for both sides to be open-minded so they can improve ties strained over the past.
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Top Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo  9437.T said on Thursday it would launch a 3G phone equipped  for use overseas and including a video conferencing function,  getting a leg-up on its closest rival, KDDI Corp. 9433.T.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda played a friendly game of catch on his visit to China on Saturday, a symbol of warming ties between the North Asian rivals despite an intractable row over gas resources in disputed waters.
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Japan's prime minister has begun posting English-language messages on the video-sharing Internet site YouTube in an apparent bid to raise his country's international profile.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was set to sign a ground-breaking defense pact with Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Tuesday that both leaders have emphasized is not aimed at reining in China.
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By YURI KAGEYAMA  TOKYO - Visit Japan's top social-networking site, the 8-million-strong "Mixi," and you'll see prim, organized columns and boxes of stamp-size photos - not the flashy text and teen-magazine-like layout of its American counterpart, MySpace.com.
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Visit Japan's top social-networking site, the 8-million-strong "Mixi," and you'll see prim, organized columns and boxes of stamp-size photos &#151; not the flashy text and teen-magazine-like layout of its American counterpart, MySpace.com. The difference in appearance between the two online hangouts reflects a broader clash of cultures &#151; and illustrates the challenge News Corp.'s MySpace faces as it jumps into the Japanese market.