BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japan PM in surprise resignation
Page last updated at 14:07 GMT, Monday, 1 September 2008 15:07 UK Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has announced his resignation during a news conference at his official residence. The surprise announcement means the 72-year-old is resigning less than a year after he took office. His government has suffered chronic unpopularity. Lost pension records, a controversial healthcare scheme and a slid
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Earthquake rocks northern Japan
At least six people are dead and more than 140 injured after a powerful earthquake struck northern Japan, triggering landslides. The 7.2-magnitude quake was centred on Iwate - a rural mountainous region on Japan's main island, Honshu. Military helicopters are taking in supplies and flying the injured to hospitals. A landslide at a hot spring reportedly buried seven people. And a small amount of ra
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Seven dead in Tokyo knife attack
A man armed with a knife has killed seven people and injured 10 others in central Tokyo, Japanese media say. The incident occurred in the Akihabara district, a busy shopping area known as Electric Town that is popular with young people and tourists. A suspect, said to be 25-year-old Tomohiro Kato, has been arrested. Police spokesman Jiro Akaogi told reporters: "The suspect said he came to Akihabar
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BBC NEWS | Business | Toshiba drops out of HD DVD war
Toshiba has said it will stop making its high definition DVDs, ending a battle with rival format Blu-ray over which would be the industry standard. Following a review of its business, Toshiba said it would stop production of HD DVD players and recorders. The HD DVD format has suffered as major US film studios backed the Blu-ray format, which is being developed by electronics firm Sony and partners
BBC NEWS | Business | Yahoo 'to reject Microsoft offer'
Microsoft made its first unsolicited offer for Yahoo a year ago Yahoo has reportedly decided to reject Microsoft's unsolicited takeover offer. Several newspapers and news agencies say Yahoo's board will on Monday dismiss the $44.6bn (£22.9bn) offer as being inadequate. When it was made, Microsoft's $31 a share offer was 62% above the level at which Yahoo's shares were trading. Yahoo's shares close
BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo
Microsoft and Yahoo are both struggling to compete with Google Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn (£22.4bn) in cash and shares. The offer, contained in a letter to Yahoo's board, is 62% above Yahoo's closing share price on Thursday. Yahoo cut its revenue forecasts earlier this week and said it would have to spend an additional $300m this year trying to revive
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japan sumo boss fired over death
The head of a Japanese sumo stable has been fired by the sport's national body over the treatment of a 17-year-old wrestler who died following practice. Tokitsukaze, 57, had caused a public scandal and damaged the sport's reputation, the Sumo Association said. He has admitted hitting trainee Tokitaizan with a bottle and working him hard before his death in June. He is only the second stable master
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japanese prime minister resigns
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced he is resigning after less than a year in office. Mr Abe had been facing growing calls to quit since his party lost upper house elections in July, and opinion polls showed he was increasingly unpopular. Visibly distressed, he told a packed news conference that Japan needed a new leader to "fight against terrorism". His party is set to meet next week
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Plane gutted at Japanese airport
A Taiwanese China Airlines plane has burst into flames at Naha airport, on the Japanese island of Okinawa. All 165 people on board survived, with some escaping just seconds before the plane exploded into a huge fireball. TV images showed flames and smoke billowing from the Boeing 737-800, and the pilot jumping out of the cockpit window as the plane exploded. Some reports said the left engine of th
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japan rocked by major earthquake
He cut short a trip to the south-western city of Nagasaki, where he was campaigning ahead of forthcoming upper house elections. The seven deaths took place in the city of Kashiwazaki. Four women and three men - all in their 70s and 80s - died from injuries sustained in the earthquake, the National Police Agency said. City official Takashi Otsuka said about 2,000 people had been evacuated from thei
BBC NEWS | Business | Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn
Google is buying video-sharing website YouTube for $1.65bn (£883m) in shares after a weekend of speculation that a deal was in the offing. The two companies will continue to operate independently, Google said as it announced the news on Monday. YouTube, launched in February 2005, has grown quickly into one of the most popular websites on the internet. It has 100 million videos viewed every day and
渋谷公会堂が「C.C.レモンホール」へ―命名権導入 - シブヤ経済新聞 - 広域渋谷圏のビジネス＆カルチャーニュース
渋谷公会堂（渋谷区宇田川町）のネーミングライツ（命名権）の取得先が9月20日、明らかになった。権利を取得したのは電通（港区）で、導入後の施設名称は「渋谷C.C.Lemonホール」。 契約期間は5年間で、取得金額は年額8千万円に消費税を加えた計4億2千万円。同社はすでに大手飲料メーカーのサントリーに対し権利を転売済みで、炭酸飲料「C.C.Lemon」の名を冠した施設名は、今後5年間存続させるという。同社は、「ネーミングライツは著名な音楽ホールとして初めてのもので話題性がある」と判断、導入後は、各種企業のプロモーションなどホールを利用した周辺業務に着手するという。 東京オリンピックの重量挙げ会場として1964年に開業後、多目的ホールとして長年親しまれてきた渋谷公会堂は、施設の老朽化に伴い改装工事が進められてきた。渋谷区は6月、同区初の試みとして、施設名にスポンサーの名を冠することができる命名権
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japan princess gives birth to boy
Japan's Princess Kiko has given birth to a baby boy, potentially resolving the royal family's succession crisis. The 39-year-old princess gave birth by a Caesarean section two weeks early, after complications in the pregnancy. Princess Kiko, wife of the current emperor's second son, already has two daughters, but women are not allowed to ascend to the Chrysanthemum throne. Her son becomes the firs
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